Gee Torch, another one of your “pro-Tesla” articles. All you do on this site is crow about how wonderful Elon is. /s

It kinda looks like a Peugeot - thats not a criticism, I just want to make that perfectly clear. It looks great.

This reminds me of Apple in the early days of the iPhone. I was working for a mobile phone company in retail initially when the iPhone came out. There were a lot of breakages - obviously and lots of warranty claims. Apple didn’t repair the phones they just replaced them. But if you damaged your phone, ie broke the…

I test drove one and if I had $30k to drop on a toy, I would be at the Suzuki dealership right now handing over my money. As hilarious as it is to drive, I don’t want to daily drive one. I have two small kids a bigish dog so I can’t really make one work for me. Its too impractical. It really is too small. But as I…

I like door mounted ones cos they look fancy. But really seat mounted makes the most sense as it replicates the manual ones AND keeps the door less cluttered. So on balance, I’m with you Torch - seat. 

My car has memory, my wifes car with power seats does not. I would rather just not have power seats if there is no memory setting! 

I really don’t know when I started. I first learnt on our quad bikes, then the tractors and then my dads 4x4. I got my learners licence on my 15th birthday and my restriced licence at 15.5 as soon as I possibly could

My dad did this for me with our Hilux, low range first gear, I used to go up and down our orchard rows changing between the gears when I was a kid. You basically couldn’t stall it.

Panoz! I only know of existence because of the Midtown Madness games! I miss Midtown Madness

Oh! I forgot about the Caliber! Thats pretty terrible. 

Simple. Nissan Tiida (1st Gen) - I think it may have been the Versa in the USA. This thing, is what is wrong with Nissan. Its ugly, its too small for its category, it has a bad powertrain, a horrid gearbox and worse still they are literally everywhere, because they are cheap reliable used cars. I hate them. Nissan,…

Lets not forget the Mitsubishi Pencil Co. (I’m not really sure its related, but lets not let facts get in the way)

The government has a list of LHD cars that are allowed to be imported. They need to be “specialty” cars. If the car you want to import isn’t on the list you can apply. You can or used to at least be able to import a LHD if you were immigrating permanently. AND the car is identical to a RHD model on available in the…

Err... we get the full line up of RHD Jeep Wranglers here (New Zealand). From Sport to Rubicon... 3 or 5 door... So the lack stuff isn’t just to keep the price down for export or limiting export versions. So the unique RHD setup isn’t a thing. Its just unique in a LHD country. 

For a conventional soccer mum mid size SUV I nominate my wife’s Ford Kuga/Escape (not ours pictured but identical). Why so many buttons Ford? Why? Why is the gear lever on the dash? Whats with the recessed screen? So many questions - note I don’t mind the car 

I think it’s because Toyota doesn’t want to appear as the mainstream car brand as it might appear too dominant, or like a white good... I’m really not sure. In the same way they have like three or four different dealer brands instead of just “Toyota” like every other country to appeal to different tastes. They sell…

Just a bit of trivia on the badge thing. Toyota is the largest car maker in Japan and they started to get a bit concerned that every second car had a Toyota badge on the front. So in the early ‘90s they started placing ‘model’ badges on the front of the cars. There are stacks of Toyotas that don’t have a Toyota badge…

I had a long term rental Corolla while we were based overseas for three months. I stupidly reveresed into a wall in our apartment building. It was very light but noticeable damage. The car had 1000kms on it, so likely I was the second renter. The car was exceptionally dirty when I returned it, so you couldn’t see the…

I curbed the rims of an X5 I rented in Melbourne (it already had curbed wheels) but my policy stated “curb the shit out of them, we don’t care! the selling dealer will refresh them anyway when we on sell the vehicle!” Ok maybe I’m paraphrasing a bit here, but that was the gist. 

At least a Golf cart knows its a golf cart and doesn’t pretend to be something its not