Holy smoke, I'm still shaking!!
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Well guys, what can I say. Picked her up at 11.30. Steve K took me for a drive first and gave me pointers about driving in the wet etc.
Were they needed................? Oh my gosh. YES YES YES
I now feel like a tit for ever posting a thread about putting Nitrous on a Noble. Sorry about that chaps, now I understand why I got laughed at and ignored.
I did follow your advice up until the point where I was going over Hills road bridge in Cambridge this afternoon and squeesed a little too much on the throttle. The back end went the wrong way and then the other wrong way, just a foot or so slide each way at 45ish but I am still shaking from it now.
It needs a whole lot of respect in the wet.
I have got a hundred and one questions to ask but am going to read the manuals from front to back, before asking you any.
I would love to meet up with one or 2 of you maybe next weekend, or tomorrow (chillidog??)
I hope this feeling of over-excitement and stress passes soon and switches to euphoria. (i do have a bad hangover though- opps)
Oh and just before I sign off I need to shout...........
I've got a Noble in the garage!!!
Were they needed................? Oh my gosh. YES YES YES
I now feel like a tit for ever posting a thread about putting Nitrous on a Noble. Sorry about that chaps, now I understand why I got laughed at and ignored.
I did follow your advice up until the point where I was going over Hills road bridge in Cambridge this afternoon and squeesed a little too much on the throttle. The back end went the wrong way and then the other wrong way, just a foot or so slide each way at 45ish but I am still shaking from it now.
It needs a whole lot of respect in the wet. I have got a hundred and one questions to ask but am going to read the manuals from front to back, before asking you any.
I would love to meet up with one or 2 of you maybe next weekend, or tomorrow (chillidog??)
I hope this feeling of over-excitement and stress passes soon and switches to euphoria. (i do have a bad hangover though- opps)
Oh and just before I sign off I need to shout...........
I've got a Noble in the garage!!! 
I found the hardest thing to get right was overtaking in the wet. You want to get past as quick as you can, but over do it and you'll be over-steering into the victim or a ditch.
Another thing to watch is it's very easy to lock wheels. It's a little unnerving at first but controllable.
Just wait until it's dry and the roads don't have salt on them again. That's when the Noble's impressive.
Quite a few of us around Essex/Suffolk/Cambs now. Must be enough for an impressive get together every so often?
Another thing to watch is it's very easy to lock wheels. It's a little unnerving at first but controllable.
Just wait until it's dry and the roads don't have salt on them again. That's when the Noble's impressive.
Quite a few of us around Essex/Suffolk/Cambs now. Must be enough for an impressive get together every so often?
Yeah with the roads as they are, getting the power down can be problematic
I've had similar shimmys this winter. The car is dynamically very benign though, much less likely to bite than my Elise was. Also your tyres will presumably be new and will need some running in to get rid of the release agent which will affect grip whilst its there.
Enjoy the car though, and mind how you go!
I think I forgot to say just how pleased I am with it though.
I have been out to the garage twice in the last 2 hours just to look at her again.
I am about to go on a first (2nd ish) date with a new lass. She is picking me up in an hour and I am not sure if I should tell her or not. I think not, but it will be damn hard not to mention it all night if I don't. My mind will be elsewhere all night.
Apart from that little heart attack moment, I have had an amazing day and love it to death!!
The best bit was driving down a busy high street when a group of 18yr old lads saw it and one screamed, "OH my God its a Fu**ing Noble" Then they all started shouting "big-up" at me!!
Hard to avoid attention in Noble's then!!
A meet up would be great. I am told there is another chap in Cambridge with an Azure one too. And a booming sound system too!! (that is one thing I found a little rubbish - the sounds) still the stereo was off all day!
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>> Edited by Mr Noble on Saturday 5th March 19:46
I have been out to the garage twice in the last 2 hours just to look at her again.
I am about to go on a first (2nd ish) date with a new lass. She is picking me up in an hour and I am not sure if I should tell her or not. I think not, but it will be damn hard not to mention it all night if I don't. My mind will be elsewhere all night.
Apart from that little heart attack moment, I have had an amazing day and love it to death!!
The best bit was driving down a busy high street when a group of 18yr old lads saw it and one screamed, "OH my God its a Fu**ing Noble" Then they all started shouting "big-up" at me!!
Hard to avoid attention in Noble's then!!
A meet up would be great. I am told there is another chap in Cambridge with an Azure one too. And a booming sound system too!! (that is one thing I found a little rubbish - the sounds) still the stereo was off all day!
:rightfootwithrespectwrittenonit: >> Edited by Mr Noble on Saturday 5th March 19:46
No Lotus said:
Mr Noble you're making my wait more difficult. Congratulations, though! Oh, and I hope the date goes well.
I can't imagine that wet salty roads are as much of a promlem where you live!!
Just waiting till the sun warms up a little and I shall we out for testing session 2.
The wait is part of the fun mate!
Greg,
Hope your day out was good. I've just had my first real completly dry day in the M400. Suffice to say there are probably a lot of people between Cirencester and Stroud that saw a "blue blurry thing" shoot past them
Excellent day for it down my way, so hope you started to have some fun in it.
J
Hope your day out was good. I've just had my first real completly dry day in the M400. Suffice to say there are probably a lot of people between Cirencester and Stroud that saw a "blue blurry thing" shoot past them
Excellent day for it down my way, so hope you started to have some fun in it.
J
Well....I was the lucky passenger with Greg when he went and picked up the car. 
Due to conditions Greg probably didn't manage to use even 50% of the cars potential - yet in a straight line in 3rd, with him not giving it everything, I was still reaching for the invisible brake pedal in the passenger footwell and in need of new underwear.
What an amazing piece of engineering....
I obviously knew about the performance on paper, but as always the reality is a million times better....slightly mechanical solid 'clunck' as the gear is selected, a little bit of induction noise - then the outside world goes blurry and your fillings come out the back of your head. Awesome. I kind of ran out of superlatives for this car in five minutes.
I was expecting to be impressed - instead I fell in love. I think I've been bitten by the Noble bug - and I didn't even get a go in the hotseat this time!
These cars are truly amazing. I want one.
Now call me shallow - but I like to get noticed in a nice car that I've spent my hard-earned on (why else would I buy the dynamically inferior M3 convertible over the coupe?)
. The M3 would perhaps turn one head every few days, when the roof was down and I was giving somebody the 7,500rpm fly by - but the Noble - WOW!
The only cars I can think of with the same amount of road presence are the Diablo and my mates Dad's Jag XJ220. 355's blend in to the scenery by comparison, and 911's are basically invisble! Pretty special company I think you'd agree - the Noble certainly is not a car for the shrinking violet. And for me - that just adds to the ownership experience of a car that can pretty much out gun anything else on the planet until you get into £200,000 teritory.
As you may be able to detect, I was slightly impressed.
If (or should that be when...) I get one, the only thing I would change would be those damned rear light clusters. For me they are just to ordinary on an otherwise totally extraordinary car. But hey.....let's not nit pick here!
You are all lucky, lucky boys - I was blown away.
Much respect to the Nobility. Or as that baseball cap wearing kid shouted at us....BAAAAAAAAD BOYYYYYY RIIIIIIIDE MAAATE!!!
Anyone know how much a human kidney is worth on the black market? How about a right arm?
Due to conditions Greg probably didn't manage to use even 50% of the cars potential - yet in a straight line in 3rd, with him not giving it everything, I was still reaching for the invisible brake pedal in the passenger footwell and in need of new underwear.
What an amazing piece of engineering....
I obviously knew about the performance on paper, but as always the reality is a million times better....slightly mechanical solid 'clunck' as the gear is selected, a little bit of induction noise - then the outside world goes blurry and your fillings come out the back of your head. Awesome. I kind of ran out of superlatives for this car in five minutes.
I was expecting to be impressed - instead I fell in love. I think I've been bitten by the Noble bug - and I didn't even get a go in the hotseat this time!
These cars are truly amazing. I want one.
Now call me shallow - but I like to get noticed in a nice car that I've spent my hard-earned on (why else would I buy the dynamically inferior M3 convertible over the coupe?)
. The M3 would perhaps turn one head every few days, when the roof was down and I was giving somebody the 7,500rpm fly by - but the Noble - WOW! The only cars I can think of with the same amount of road presence are the Diablo and my mates Dad's Jag XJ220. 355's blend in to the scenery by comparison, and 911's are basically invisble! Pretty special company I think you'd agree - the Noble certainly is not a car for the shrinking violet. And for me - that just adds to the ownership experience of a car that can pretty much out gun anything else on the planet until you get into £200,000 teritory.
As you may be able to detect, I was slightly impressed.
If (or should that be when...) I get one, the only thing I would change would be those damned rear light clusters. For me they are just to ordinary on an otherwise totally extraordinary car. But hey.....let's not nit pick here!
You are all lucky, lucky boys - I was blown away.
Much respect to the Nobility. Or as that baseball cap wearing kid shouted at us....BAAAAAAAAD BOYYYYYY RIIIIIIIDE MAAATE!!!
Anyone know how much a human kidney is worth on the black market? How about a right arm?
Very well written Mr Bonnett, I am sure that it will make the likes of Lee and Micknall smile when reading it, it sure made me smile which is the exact opposite of what we were both doing when the back end became unstuck. I blame you for that, not sure why, but it makes me feel better if I do.
Glad you love it mate. You only need a few more members to join your exceptional website (hint hint) and you will be in one too!!
Glad you love it mate. You only need a few more members to join your exceptional website (hint hint) and you will be in one too!!
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