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A pang for a Fireblade and a chance encounter with an old mate saw me sell my VFR80 RC46 . Now I just need to explain how I got from that idea to owning a Volkswagen Corrado G60! Shopping "The devil makes work for idle thumbs" and my thumbs had a phone to play with and the eBay app again. I was looking for a Honda Fireblade having missed my much loved RR2 on the left but frankly I would have taken nearly any shape <1000cc blade so long as it wasn't a jelly mould. Unfortunately, there wasn't much about at the time so the search spread out... Then a mate of mine went and bought an Audi B5 S4. It was quite a way down south and I had offered to help go pick it up with him. It had some nice performance modifications without deviating too far from stock looks wise. The turbo charged V6 sounded aggressive through a rather open exhaust system and a flat shifter made for some noisy gear shifting. It was cool and got me thinking that maybe I could have