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OOOooo.. Forgot I had this pic already on my facebook too!! So here is the Mazda with the little baby one as well ;)

Thanks for the warm welcome guys! I've not had a sit in a Starlet Turbo yet, so hoping there will be a midland/Birmingham sort of area meet and maybe I can have someone kind enough to let me feel what the Starlet feels like. I'll upload/link some pics when I get home eventually tonight so you can see what a geek I look like and what I currently drive.. But here is the Civic out at Castle Combe at Performance Car Show Action Day in April: I'll get some of me and the Yellow Mazda 6 "practical" car as well.. and I'm sooo tempted to get a Yellow Starlet, especially after seeing Idrees's one!! Yellow with Carbon fibre is soo JDM, and since I'm Chinese it defo clicks with my skin colour too ;) ;) As you will see later tonight I've attempted the yellow black theme with the Mazda and it defo works! I wouldn't say I'm going to the dark side, just broadening my horizons lol.. and yes usually the first things I do when I get a car is fettle with the handling department.. when I got the Civic 2 years ago it was only a little 1.5 litre SOHC, so could only produce 90BHP, but even so I braces the front upper, lower and rear upper lower, shocks and springs, anti roll bars, and "Prelude" big brake upgrade and rear disc conversion.. over kill for a 1.5 but at least I then knew what the handling was like before around Christmas just gone I put in the 1.6 DOHC VTEC engine.. Is there such transferable bits for the Starlet/Glanza, like fitting bigger brakes from another Toyota model and such things.. The reason why I went for the Civic back then was because most of hte stuff from an Integra Type R DC2 and some other models will happily install and uprate the Civic.. would be nice if thats available so I can get bits that will improve the car for cheap! Thanks guys!! And sorry making you guys read my life story like this.. but thought it would be nice for everyone to know abit about my background and hopefully I can be a regular on here and make some new friends Albert.

Hi all! I'm new to the site as you will probably see, and I don't know much about the Starlet/Glanza so I'm here to read and learn and get some advice on what I am looking for.. I currently own a Honda Civic EG thats been stripped and modded for a track day car, but after seeing one on track and reading some about how good the Starlet/Glanza is I'm tempted to sell up the Civic and get one of these, as its been a very love hate relationship with TenCho (the Civic).. I think I've had my fun with VTEC and want to go turbo as I think thats where my heart truely is, and I believe insurance won't be much different to the Civic anyway as I'm with a specialist who caters for modded cars, and I can never leave any of my cars standard.. I hope to be a sponge and absorb any advice and also provide any knowledge of my own to help others whilst I am here, and I can imagine I'll be here for a long while lol.. I'm hoping to do some homework before I dive in, but it seems like I am set on getting a Starlet/Glanza just because they are so understated! As I say I am in no rush to get one but wait until one comes along with some of the mods done already and also owned by an enthusiast who knows what they are doing and has loved the car as much as I will. Thanks in advance to any welcome messages and advice given. Albert.