Damn, and back in the day I thought my neighbours Tarago (Toyota Previa in the USA) with a 2Jz-GTE and the 6 speed in it was bad ass.
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The car that Shelby bolted a turbo onto? Based on a French hatch design, that after the power upgrades, tram-lined like hell through any corner with more than 10 degrees steering lock?
See the part where I asked about them keeping up anywhere other than a drag strip?
Sorry, I read the line; "What about it taking till now to have hot hatches that can actually compete with American compact car?" as if it's a new thing that Europe has only just been able to do.
not to be picky - but the Vauxhall VXR is an Australian car - just re badged. Kinda like (100% identical to - built in same building as) the Pontiac G8 and the recent GTO.
What American Compact car from 1984 could keep up with a 205 GTi on anything other than a drag strip?
A base model Land Rover Defender in the UK goes for about 24,000 pounds. When you remove VAT from that, you see the cost of it for the manufacturer+profit is somewhere around 18,000 pounds. or the equiv of about $US 29,000.
It's a boat, claim you found it floating, abandoned and not tied up - call it maritime salvage.
My point was Jeep struggles to meet domestic US and Chinese demand for the Wrangler - given those things, it's never going to be a good sales proposition in most of Africa - atleast for the foreseeable future.
With the Land Rover Defender series possibly being killed off soon - surely taking the tooling to somewhere in Africa and continuing production there (using the non fuel injected engines) would be sensible. There are literally millions of the things on the roads there still - running the production locally would make…
An overly expensive vehicle, that current supply can't meet demand for in it's 2 biggest markets - for sale in parts of Africa where a Policeman makes the equivalent of around $400 a year. Not exactly a perfect sales environment.
Too true, nearly 20 years ago in high school in Australia, a girl in my year was running 10.2's most weekends - she was 14 at the time.
I assume then that the owner of the car isn't liable for all offences unless he can stipulate who was driving the car instead of him in the USA?
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The Baha Bug can be seen in this Petrolicious video..... looks awesome.
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the old girl is still in a good running (insane) working order.
Might be rare as rocking horse shit in the US, but that's a $4k car in Australia.
I find it amusing that 7 of your 10 worst airports are in the USA.
That's just a medium one. Give me a 130 with an after-market country wagon kit please.
Can currently be bought new in South Africa (built locally and used for everything from Ambulances to Taxi's), Venezuela and Australia (probably more places - those are just the places I've seen new ones in the last 6 months). It's not likely to survive much longer in Australia however - http://www.motoring.com.au/news…
Calling it still born is perhaps a bit cruel and in-accurate.