Camry Hybrid?

We had a VW Polo, it was predominantly my wife’s car, we only had one kid... then we had another kid and that Polo didn’t fit us in it, on the odd time we had to use it. My 4 year old (at the time) complained about the rear leg room. He. Was. Four. I am not a tall person, although I do have long legs. Rear facing car…

I question alcohol interlocks... BUT not because I support drink driving, I think they will prove to present so many false positives that it will really piss people off. And there is nothing to stop some Ahole getting their kid to blow into it to start their car when they’ve had a few too many. RE the seat belt one,…

Somehow for our family its Ford. My grandparents ALWAYS had Fords, I remember a Cortina, a couple of Telstars, then a slew of Mondeos and finally and still has a Kuga. Weirdly though my grandads trucks weren’t always Fords, he had a Hilux, an Isuzu Rodeo, a Courier then a slew of Rangers. My parents always had Ford…

I once test drove a 2015 Mitsubishi Outlander - we had a new baby and my wife saw it and was like “look a brand new 7 seater for $30k!!! - I drove it around the block and it was so bloody awful that my back hurt for days afterward. I have never had back pain before. Also the car was an appalling pile of cheap crap! 

What is this CD case you speak of? My mum didn’t get a car with a CD player until 2005! We had to make do with tapes! I put a CD player in my car in about 2003 (I was 16) then regretted it when I got my iPod, the tape player AUX cord was a way better solution than an iTrip.

This is pretty obvious I would have thought. New Peugeots are gorgeous. They have fantastic interiors, drive pretty well and from what I understand don’t seem to be as... well French when it comes to not breaking down.

I can’t understand why Hyundai don’t buy them. They keep teasing pick ups (I’m talking normal sized ones, not the gargantuan american ones) and actual 4x4s. But lack body on frame platforms. Ssangyong makes pretty decent trucks/4x4 SUVs but has a bit of a problem with the design. Hyundai makes really good looking cars…

BMW 240i 

I really like the idea of repurposing an old ship into a billionaires plaything. Its far better than scrapping it. More billionaires need to do this with old 747's and what not. 

Haha I was in a Camry hybrid taxi a couple of months ago and the driver said “yeah these things go forever. I replaced some of the cells myself after they died. This ones 450,000km on it.” The battery is right under my seat isn’t it.....  

I haven’t programmed seat memory to the fobs on my Outback as its just easier to press the button. Also I have PTSD from the time my old BMW crunched me into the dash when I had my wife’s key...

This! Except my wifes car has electric seats with no memory. Man it sucks! Especially considering she has back problems! 

You are so right. The difference between the Maverick and the Baja and the Hyundai thingy is that the Maverick actually looks like a truck. Guess what truck buyers want? A truck! 

Can I retrofit my 2016 Subaru with this feature? I really want it. I don’t know why. I just do

Yeah pretty much this. I want a body on frame SUV (Toyota Fortuner or Ford Everest). Can I daily drive a dinosaur though? I’m going to hire one when we go away for a long weekend to find out.

New Zealand, but I think we get the euro or japan spec cars. A 2.0l might actually be ok... originally we got either a 1.2 turbo or a 1.8. They got a manual version in Europe with the 1.2 turbo which may have been marginally more fun. 

This is just one of those cars that doesn’t do what it says on the box. “sporty compact car” = lethargic 1.2 turbo or lackluster hybrid with a CVT. “Practical small SUV” = postage stamp rear window, tiny boot and really high sill lines in the back with no leg room. It just doesn’t work on any level. 

I remember a TV show as a kid (must have been about cars) where a guy took a sledge hammer to a late 70s/early 80s Ford Falcon (Australian Falcon) and a to a modern - probably mid-90s - Corolla and showed how the ‘old’ car was better built when the steel wing and bonnet didn’t really flex all that much, but the…

Toyota New Zealand have been doing this for decades. Given that they have a stranglehold on the rental car market here, they take the ex-rentals run them through their old assembly plant, refurbish them and sell them with a new 3 year warranty called ‘signature class.’ They also have a programme where they do the same…