I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Amen!

Why should you be puzzled? Opinions differ.

I don't think this is gonna change until your fuel prices match ours. Much respect to you for downsizing in a world of oversizing.

I agree with most of what you say, and i'm not surprised about the fact that your friend sees a lot of these traded in after just a short while.

The situation might be very different in Australia, i don't know. Here, however, there are quite a bit of options for a fun small RWD car.

I'm glad you're enjoying our conversation, but i didn't mean to "destroy" anyone ... nor do i think i did.

Man you'd be depressed coming here lol.

lol, my thoughts exactly.

Yes, it will use a lot less while hauling, but a lot more while unloaded and just driving around. Look at it ...

lol. Maybe i should start importing nissan patrols to the US, huh? I'd have sold it to you had i known you wanted one so badly.

No, you couldn't. This brings me back to my original point, namely that this thing (and thus it's design goals) is a bit silly.

A: In a way, it would. Like a tractor pulling contest.

Even though it would pull, carry, haul, whatever you call it a lot more than that pickup. And it'll do it for over a million miles, no sweat.

Did i say you have to agree?

Things are bigger in murca. You can get 1000 NM trucks here. Wouldn't be an articulated tractor trailer. But it would be a lot bigger than this pickup monster.

Belgium. There's lots and lots around. Sold mine for 1K euros.

Your opinion is just that - an opinion, yet you make it out to sound like fact. As if others aren't telling me how i'm wrong, and they're hoping to change my opinion in doing so.

I've owned a Y60 2.8 diesel. I've put it through a lot, and it always came out fighting. 0-60 in a solid 17 seconds, amazing performance. 500+K kms on the clock, and still going ... "strong". It was very reliable, but also very basic.

My opel speedster (lotus elise S2 with a GM drivetrain) cost me 7.5K euros (28K euros base price for a GT86, more for the BRZ). No, the GT86 doesn't make sense as a sports car ... for the money.