Sorry, just seemed like you were doing the generic piss-take from someone whos against modifying cars. I do agree with your points on daft modifying, I've seen enough guys with bikes going after bhp figures, makes them alright on a strip or on a track but pretty useless on the road. I do have a small amount of experience with fast cars and their engineering, so I'd never make the typical blanket statements, I spotted one a while back on some Ford forum that some guy with an XR4x4 with 300bhp was faster than a Ferrari... I was just saying if he wanted a really fast car for £16k, and the R32 was on his list then it could be done. Thought about a Monaro VXR? Probably return about 15/20 to the gallon if you're lucky, but it's within your budget.