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FE's have a tendency to have big wheels and odd interior colours.

Most later models seem to get advertised with the FE moniker which often makes us all laugh. Dealer marketing babble basically.

The LATER FL have a slightly different style gear stick gate set-up from a T shape to a kind of fat L - Never did find out if they had a "sport" mode. The earlier PF D2 certainly don't.

I had both the a FL and a PF of the D2s. Personally i preferred the FL one. The gearbox went on the PF despite service stuff (120ish) and the FL gearbox despite no service got almost double.

However the FL engine has an early VVT and there's little chain lifters that are oil driven and the guide bits tend to wear. You can hear a chain rattle on start up when wearing and there is one at the front and one on one side and one at the back on the other side. I seem to recall on needed the bumper off and timing and the other could just about be done in situ, but they are pig. If they go and the chain slips, interference engine and rods into pistons, which killed my FL

One tip is that often overlooked is the kick down on the FL is oddly disabled. It's a twist switch under the loud pedal. If you are in manual mode and high gear (~30mph, 4th) and you boot it and it doesn't drop gears then it's kick down is disabled and twist the switch. The S8 has some rapid pick up in most gears, but kick down can really launch and pin.

Alcantra inserts on leather seats is a nice extra. Bose is a must. You can change head units or upgrade to the RNS-E (iirc). The solar sunroof is nice and there's a very rare heated windscreen. Blinds good but a decent tinted set-up better.

Had a decent prins LPG on mine which made it a cheap car to run and 95% of the power. You could get it to drop out with kick down, but would happily do silly speeds. At 140mph it kicked down and lurched but i backed off as i just wasn't comfortable at that speed, the car was! Phenomenal machines.