One would hope so, tends to decrease the incidence of general fuckwitery fairly dramatically. “Car jacking” makes it sound like some amusing prank - it’s not, it’s violent, confronting and some victims never get over it.

Nightmares like this perhaps? Around here though, some of the most beautiful and remote destinations are a ferry ride away, so it’s a case of grin and bear it. I don’t plan on going into the water with the vehicle and there is no point in being overly precious about a 4wd that you’re going to drive on a beach anyway,…

That poor thing needs a good debadging aside from anything else. Last time I saw that much graffiti on the back of a car, was on a generic Korean SUV!

Right so deploying a defensive missile system is now seen as uber-provocation - and naturally it’s Pres Trump’s fault, with a distant sideswipe at George Dubbyah. Talk about a simplistic analysis, but then in certain quarters they eat this shit with a spoon. Personally I’m inclined to the Robin Williams school of…

Err, have I been condemned to graydom again because I dared to question an editorial position on this interwebs publication? I’d hope not.

I’d like to think it was so, however I think our economist is attributing way too much foresight to the successive Aussie governments. The truth of the matter is that subsidies were a political decision - a payoff for support if you will, with the car manufacturing industry being one of the most heavily unionised. It…

Takeaway - it’s a joke if played on your mate, played on a teenage snowflake (especially if said snowflake is female) it becomes abuse of some sort.   Yup, I get it, equality doesn’t actually mean equality does it?

Hmm I just love the idea of my future being controlled by some techi-nerd misfit too. As a car I quite like the S, although the interior has always struck me as lagging behind a similar priced Euro product, but unless Tesla can transition to a future where they are the go-to tech company rather than a car maker, I…

Got a warm fuzzy feeling have you - got one up on those cheating Germans, oh look the stadium’s in strife over it too. Sigh, so much virtue signalling....., it fair makes me ill!

Blah blah, Trump is an idiot, blah blah, Trump is an idiot repeated ad nauseam - pretty much a summary of any recent FA piece, no?

Happens everywhere; I found my 16V Golf Gti parked in the street after it had been stolen. Hotfooted it to local police station where I was told that they had no vehicles to dispatch. I eventually got a lone cop who was sunning himself outside, interested and drove him back to where my car was parked, just as the…

Well that’s put me in my place, I feel so inadequate ..., I’m not British and and grew up using gearbox and transmission interchangeably. I will admit to a slight cringe when someone called it the tranny though - shades of weird old Aunt May who liked to wear a suit and smoke cigars, buts that’s a story for another…

Someone may have explained it, but I missed the bit when they explained why the Airforce and Navy/Marines use different refueling methods. Maybe I’m just too literal minded, but I actually thought they might fight an actual war on the same side.

I thought I was the only one; I tripped across a Eunos 30MX for next to nothing recently and more or less on a whim, bought it for my son who has nearly 9 months to go before getting his license. Our biggest problem now is that I am enjoying driving it so much that he is afraid he may not get it after all. That car…

Just to throw another curve into the mix, the P4, nee’ G Wagen isn’t actually a Benz at all, but rather a Steyr-Puch. I think only the Austrians bought them with the original badging, but I have seen the odd one knocking about overseas too.

Can we move on from the “I don’t have a plug”stories yet? It’s about as pointless as my bitching about how useless a 120V charger is in a civilised country with a 240V supply. The concept has been done to death; I want to know how the thing functions as a car, but by the time I’d ploughed through the BS I didn’t much…

Agreed, there’s no need for a solid axle on a Bronco. When the going is really tough, I’m always happier with a solid front axle, but then I’ll go looking for a pedigreed, hardcore offroader like a Landcruiser 70 series or a G-Wagen, not an SUV. 99% of the time a decent IFS set up will do just fine and you only have…

You know, this kind of self indulgent, virtue signalling article is nearly as irritating as all the non-US citizens of the world frantically sharing anti Trump memes on my farcebook page. I don’t much like the man, but I don’t get a vote in the US elections, so by my reckoning that opinion is largely irrelevant.

Happens all too often unfortunately. I got involved in the tail end of a dispute where it turned out that a somewhat dimwitted museum employee had been spraying water down the velocity stacks on the multi carb set up on a locally important F1 car. Car was washed, dried and waxed regularly and looked great - pity about…

Hmm, old mate has obviously not spent much time in the Aussie outback, water and ice tend to be in fairly short supply out there.