well now, that's a lot of info to be thinking about

i'mnot even the one buying the car, my cousins kid is as a stop gap

he was going to get an XK8 but it wasn't going to be soemthing you could get away wiht for a 25 year old

i've sent him all the various bits and obs that have been mentioned and a link to this post, not sure if he'll need to log in through to view it, but supra's were also mentioned in our conversation as well as a yank muscle car (dismissed for fuel and being wrong hand drive)

thanks for the info, it's been enlightening folks