I live near a relatively upscale area of Auckland New Zealand, Rangers, Hiluxes and Amaroks dominate trucks in my area. You would think that the urban truck buying wealthy would buy the Merc. They don’t. Most buyers can see that its hastily re-badged Nissan Navara (literally the worst truck in its class). I spent…

The wipers been hanging out in David Tracy’s back yard...

I think I’d like to take the one in the middle for a test drive please...

Indicator needs to be on the outside and curve around. That way people to the side of the car can see if you are indicating. I don’t know why this matters, but I’ve felt this way since I was a child. No other country demands your stupid side marker lights so tough. FYI love the lighting arrangement based articles keep…

If I were in the position to have a nanny. I’d buy one for the nanny to use to ferry the children around. In my head that is the only reason for this car to exist

I agree with Andrews take. The H3 was the good one and it sucks that it never got to hang around to actually prove itself. If Hummer were alive today, they would sell every single one they could make and then some

OK, so it also sounds like “the teacher” doesn’t know how to drive a manual

I went and had a look at one today, didn’t drive if as I didn’t have time. I just don’t think it will work with two car seats unfortunately. I also ruined it, as I went next door to Toyota and had a look at a Prado... and well that’s what I really want 

Wow! That’s impressive packing! I might have to take one for a test drive

Ah now you see that’s the other problem that I want to conveniently ignore. I live in central Auckland, the one place where there are lots of motorways and from what I’ve read, the Jimny can be pretty darn scary at speed

Ok so you’ve had me thinking about this all day, the Suzuki is 307mm shorter, 37mm thinner but it’s 266mm taller!!! So there’s a win there!

Dimensionally I have no idea, but the Polo has four doors and a useable boot. The Suzuki has two doors and no boot with the rear seats in place. But I love that the boot is wipe down-able for the dog... it’s also such a good buy $25,000 NZD for the manual!!!

I really want one of these... but we need to buy a bigger car to replace my wife’s vw polo not a smaller one. And then out of the blue my wife is like “hey those are cool, I’d let you get one of those” now I’m working out how to make a tiny little Jimny work for our family, one 4 year old, one new born and a Labrador…

Its had slow continuous improvement. In ‘99 it moved from leaf front to coil front. Then they got the 1HD-T engine option (australian/nz) in ‘07 it got the new front end and the VDJ V8 diesel and re-released the wagon. In 2009 it got a new dashboard with two whole airbags. in 2011 it got a cup holder redesign giving…

How about, cyclists use cycle-ways (where available) don’t ride two abrest, get out of the way of the giant 2 tonne metal object when possible (I acknowledge its not always safe to do so), don’t run traffic lights and be respectful and courteous to drivers.

I have that relationship with my Outback...

Pfft! Hyundai Getz was just horrid. I hired two of them!

And that’s exactly it. It is adequate. Like, if you aren’t into cars, or into performance the Outback is just an amazing all rounder. But I get frustrated with it and want something either a bit more enthusiast-y OR something with real off road ability, so something with ground clearance, low range and either a…

Yeah, it was definitely a compromise. We had a diesel one before and the CVT was great in that car because it had plenty of torque, the dealer bought it back because of multiple DPF failures. The price difference between a 2.5 and 3.6 was too much for us to justify ($10k NZD) so we went with the 2.5. The car was…

None of this tech really solves one of the biggest problems with car based travel, that is clogged suburban streets in many cities throughout the world. The fact is you still have to get off a hyper-loop or whatever witch-craft they come up with at some point and you are back in a jam. In fact the worst part of my…