Learnt to drive a manual 5 speed Nissan urvan in Melbourne Australia doing these hook turns. Good times.

Good on you for giving it a go. I remember for me it was a real leap in at the time to listen to the album without prejudice. I was really into Hip Hop and Heavier music at the time I first listened to this and the percussion really blew me away.  Those songs you mentioned are the ones I rate but I also appreciate how…

I like albums from all those bands. Have a listen to Pet Sounds without thinking its a Beach Boys album. Its quite dark in places. Forget Kokomo

No. Rubber soul had some influence on Pet Sounds but Pet sounds was released before Sgt Peppers.
“Paul has also acknowledged Pet Sounds as the primary impetus behind The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. How did it feel to be part of this interplay with Paul McCartney, and after the influence…

How can you hate Pet Sounds?

Can agree. As a designer I’m more interested in Giorgetto Giugiaros designs of the Panda and original Golf than his supercars. Its not so hard to design something expensive and powerful compared to an economy car where production costs and manufacturing have to be balanced with all other criteria.

Can Attest, great cars. Heres mine earning money in a TV ad recently

There was this concept a couple of year back somehow they made it uglier. https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/toyota-tj-cruiser-gets-green-light-and-it-could-come-to-australia-77963

As a founding member of Tercel4wd .com I can attest to the slow but strong nature of these cars. A lot of these cars still on the road even with 1,000,000 kms on them. Not bad for an unloved econobox!

Heres someone else who did the trip to Alaska!

Is the Commodore photo near Mount Buller in Victoria by chance?

The only one I’ve not seen in Aus is the Mega Cruiser but have seen them in Japan (army version only). Prices have almost doubled in lockdown and last of the 200 series have been selling for $30k over retail as its the last of great Japanese Diesel V8's!

Not sure if you’ve ever been to Australia but I have a feeling that Landcruiser drivers from the USA would freak at the amount of Cruisers getting around.

yeah the CVT gets a lot of abuse online but it gives pretty good economy. I was looking at the manual version though as i only really drive when I’m away from the city. cheers.

Was the fuel economy of the XT awful or really depending on how you drove it? I think these are at the bottom of the depreacition curve here in Australia and thinking of getting one of the 2006-2008 model. 

Porsche B32. Designed to take Porsche execs to the test track from the airport. Perhaps 18 were made with the 911 231 hp boxer and transmission replacing the 100 hp VW unit

That smoke is the clutch and not the head gaskets

The trouble with these and many tiny houses is Zoning and the fact you can’t buy a tiny bit of land to put it on.
Depending on where you are wishing to place this. If there was some way of getting the self sufficeint off grid version across the line. But where I have been looking for land there are a lot of zoning…

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Time for Toyota to bring modern versions of some of their other concepts as well! The RV2 , RV5 and camp mate!