Look, I come from a country where people tow trailers with Honda Fits. However, I myself have an Outback, it is rated at 1.5 metric tonnes (I don’t know what that is in American), it is useless for towing beyond a single axle furniture trailer or very very light caravan. 4Runner is the answer here

People in Australia put Chevrolet badges on their Commodores, I think because down under Chevrolet is seen as cool... plus they do have Corvette engines so that helps... In fact I have seen Astra’s and Cruze’s (although I guess that was originally a Chevrolet) with Chevrolet badges on them.

I feel that you should start off big, then go small. If you learn in something big you can drive anything you want. That said though the first time I hired a car overseas - a hideous Hyundai Getz - I couldn’t park it because it was so small, I couldn’t get my head around the lack of size and how I should position it,…

You’ve driven a manual right? You know you don’t constantly shift gear right? It’s not the Fast and the Furious out there

1992 Toyota Hilux Surf (4Runner) 2.4TD. Big enough to teach you spacial awareness, but not so big that you run over people in little Hyundai’s, manual because that’s important - oh yeah and the clutch was on its way out - true story it crunched every time it went into 4th, and I had to explain that to the tester…

I’d pick the Elantra. I hate that Korean cars are now good. But now I have Chinese cars to pick on :D

Subaru’s especially the outback and forester seem to be the great equalizer. Exceptionally wealthy people buy them and young middle class families buy them (unfortunately I’m the latter) my dads exceptionally wealthy cousin (actually cousins) swapped a bmw 3 series for a forester and have been driving them ever since…

The car I had in high school and University was a “Toyota (brand) Carina (model) ED (sub-model it was a 4 door coupe before that was a thing) 2.0 (engine) X (trim level) Exciting Version (trim package)” I seriously kid you not. My car was a Toyota Carina ED 2.0 X Exciting Version.

Meant to say left, typo.

My first experience of being on the wrong side of the road was in Vanuatu, I was in the back of a tourist van being hurtled into a round-about which felt the wrong way (I’m from New Zealand, so being on the right is weird)

I’m going to settle the indicator thing. Not all RHD cars have their indicator stalk on the right. If you live in the UK its probably on the left like a LHD car. If you live in Australia, NZ, Japan its probably on the right. However, if you have a European car and you live in Australia, NZ, Japan its on the right -…

I once pulled up to a clients, in my (used) BMW 135i and he remarked “you must be doing pretty well for yourself then” that pissed me off, I bought it because I loved it, not because it had the badge, if I wanted the badge and shove it in peoples faces, I could have got a much newer 320i with an M kit etc for show,…

And the townsfolk rejoiced! Its a pity they didn’t include on all of their recent cars/major facelifts..........

They don’t sell too many here either, given they cost $115-130k and you can’t get basic ones like you can in Australia. They just don’t depreciate here. 10-15 year old 100 series Cruisers are selling for $60k+, with 200,000km’s on them.

I have a theory, and this really only works with the Toyota LandCruiser (would just need to find someone willing to bank roll it), because they do not depreciate like most normal cars. Say you finance it with a 50% balloon payment over 5 years, then refinance it again over another 5 years paying the balance you end up…

I kinda agree... it depends on your experience. We had a diesel Subaru Outback which we bought used with 9 months new car warranty remaining. It had consistent DPF failures, when taking it back for its 3rd or 4th repair, we were told by the service adviser that we weren’t driving the car “correctly” eg, it wasn’t…

Shit! Where did I spend four years of my life.... someone help me!

Its a great car. My mum has a CX-3 (against my advice - salesman said it was the same size as her old 3, its not, they have regret, should have got the CX-5 like I told them... oh well) and my mother in law has a 2. The 2 is so much fun, its chuckable, handles so well (better than the Fiesta) and I would recommend to…

So in the last three years we lost the Defender, the Y61 Patrol and now the Gelandewagen. Now there is only the LandCruiser 70 and Jeep Wrangler (and Suzuki Jimny I suppose) left with a solid front axle. I weep for off road humanity.

Can confirm. I used to live in Brisbane Australia, we had like two weeks of winter (it really wasn’t that cold) but I still managed to find a use for seat heaters there!