Universally cool jeeps are? Yes, they are predominately cool, XJ being my favourite, but universally cool? Patriot and Compass and the FWD auto Renegades definitely aren’t. (I like the trailrated Renegades.)

Oh, we got the Navara. I’ve seen way too many of them with broken tailgates and just bent fittings that sort of make me question how tough they are. Plus that and frankly if your gonna buy a pickup in the U.K., Toyota Hiluxes exist and will do for a long time. Although, in the U.K. we just use Ford Transits for…

Well it is optional and I’ve heard that quite a lot of the aftermarket part companies who supply older Land Rover stuff (bullbars snorkels and that stuff) apparently are making stuff for the new one, so it will have the at least some of the old ones extensive aftermarket support. (Basically I imagine tuning companies…

You know the U.K. is imperial when it comes to cars? Miles per hour, horsepower and Ib-ft. 

Yup. Coventry is where they are all made. Also London cabs are found all over the U.K., basically the name is sorta irrelevant. Black Cabs are the correct name. Even though they can be any colour... oh god words have no meaning to me now...

I do live only a couple hours drive from Wales... as the saying goes, “when in Trawsfynydd, do as the Trawsfynyddians do.

Love of sheep? So a bit Welsh also then.

I liked the SZ long before the Juke appeared (had a Micromachines one when I was little. Probably in my attic now) I love the styling, it looks like it drove off the set of blade runner or Battlestar Galactica.

I mean who doesn’t want a sorta sports coupé FWD thing based on an Espace? I sure do. In blue.

I’m coming from a U.K. viewpoint, the Juke to me is offensively ugly and frankly the most annoying crossover to me. Like it’s designed deliberately to be so pointless that it genuinely makes me annoyed beyond logical reasoning. It’s not practical, it’s not capable, it’s not even that cheap and it’s ugly, subjectively.…

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I wonder what happened to Nissan? Like when did someone wake up one day and say “let’s stop making cars that people think look good, let’s stop innovating and let’s make bland crossovers and ugly crossovers. Hell, all the enthusiasts will be happy with the decade old GTR and the century old 370z, that’ll mean we can…

Fair point. Actually I think Nissan cares less about making interesting or good looking cars than SEAT or Opel does, which is impressive. I mean, the Juke. Do I need to say more? 

So what are New Zealanders the equivalent of?

Clearly never been to Europe. Every fifth bland hatchback and crossover is a Opel (Vauxhall in the U.K.) or a SEAT which is just a cheaper VW. Without them, what would people who don’t care about what they drive, drive?

The same reason we send humans into space when probes and robots can do the same job. Because without humans, what’s the fucking point? Yes, drone could climb Mt. Everest, or sail the Pacific solo, but I (and I suspect the majority of people) don’t give a shit about it. We watch sports, be them Football (you know, the…

That’s the worse image I’ve seen today. My dream cars population has just dropped down another example. 

So it’ll come with a fire extinguisher then?

Find me a time when humans weren’t killing each other. Because I guarantee that would probably be pre human and probably after we’ve gone extinct. It’s ugly, but it’s also human nature to beat the shit out, then probably kill, of each other for pretty shitty reasons. Also hegemony makes you sound like someone who…

Well since I live in the U.K., I’ll definitely have to find one in a drier climate. A Fulvia Coupé can’t be the hardest thing in the world to find in the drier bits of Europe for importing. Ideally I’d like one I don’t have to work on, but I don’t mind some work. Also ether that light blue or the proper red that they…