Umm, because it falls apart!?! Google "Territory Ball Joint Problem".

Australia is not a 3rd World Country and we can get these. For about $72,000. Yes, you read right.

I had two final generation Trooper Diesels and they were heaps of crap. I only got a second one after the first one suffered an electrical fire and was toasted.

The SPi is marginally quieter. The MPi Minis are a fair bit quieter, as there is no engine mounted fan spinning away. They still have the familiar gear whine though.

Why would any knucklehead drive their Corsa onto a beach anyway? It would just make it rust and Corsas don't need that kind of help. They rust without beach use on UK roads anyway. I would not be surprised if this was a deliberate insurance claim job.

Excuse my skepticism, but that's about three litres per 100km you are claiming. Only a handful of modern cars get anywhere near that and they have the benefit of modern technology. I've owned Minis for almost 25 years and I've never seen better than 6 litres per 100km...

Here's how we roll!

That green Cooper S is Australian specification and still has Queensland numberplates.

100mpg? I very much doubt it. 40-45mpg is about right. Unless you mean 100mph, then that is possible.

I have a 34hp Mini 850cc and a 75hp 1275cc Moke. Both are so much fun to drive. Nothing comes close. 60mph feels like 200mph when you are in a ten foot box and your bum is six inches off the road. A modern Mini feels like a truck by comparison.

We had a couple from Michigan do the 2012 rally. They did all their fundraising in the US then flew in a couple of days before the rally start. They bought an "As Traded" 1988-ish Holden Astra (Nissan Sentra) with two weeks registration left for $500 and painted it in the underground car park of the hotel. …

Yeah I know what a tech inspection is. I've done some grass-roots motorsport in the past and I would love to give the LeMons a go someday. On the particular rally I mentioned there are no such formalities as a tech inspection. Since it's not a race or time trial, nobody cares. This Volvo is typical of the cars…

We normally keep modern cars (my wife's daily) five to eight years. It seems to be at about the eight years old mark they start to cause problems. The five year lease is up in Jan and I'm starting to think about whether to keep or trade. My classic cars, I keep them until I tire of one and /or want something else…

I hate what BMW has done with the MINI brand. Each release more bloated and horrible. Yuck.

Safety inspection? What's that? :) The Shitbox Rally is sub $1000 cars doing 4000km drives through the Outback to raise money for Cancer Research. It's not a race, it's a survival test. If you car does not break down it's no fun! I've done it twice now. http://www.shitboxrally.com.au/

Perfect for Shitbox Rally. If you had one in the US. Which you don't. (That's got to suck because the rally is awesome fun.)

That is a bloody nice car for 800 beer tokens!

I work for an oil major with a big presence in the US, developing gas station Point of Sale systems. Let me say that nowhere in our system does it require you to enter a customer zip code. Nor does it provide a way to store a customer's zip code against an individual transaction. If the salesperson is doing…

The author said post ripoffs. These are extreme ripoffs!

I agree with The Scrambler... The Amarok is a great vehicle and sells well in Australia. The mantle for toughest uet might just have passed from Toyota Hilux to the Amarok. The Thai made Hiluxes are just not as good anymore.