For your interest, Toyota in New Zealand has no dealers, only agents. All stock is held by Toyota and agents have a number of demonstrators. A car is sold by the agent who gets a fee and supplied at a set price by Toyota. I like this because it stops folk ( me being nice ) wasting your time for three hours and going…

Why, it just shows his ignorance.

21 million VW cabriolets? Gee that sounds like a lot!

“Hardtops are awesome though” Yeah, until it stops working - then the car is worthless. Good quality soft top is the way to go, think Saab.

Spinning my hard drive I think the last few Saabs were cobbled together from the parts bins and half finished cars on the assembly line and they were 9-3s. The 9-5 was a cracker in V6 guise, I sold a fair few of them. I thought the only let down was the bland looking seat trim.

That 400E is a sweet ride for the $$. When it breaks you can part it out. The MBtex is leather too.

GM need to do something for the Oz market sooner rather than later. Holden dealerships are a ghost town. The Opel based products aren’t selling even though they are excellent. The only buyers there are have last names like Hertz and Avis. The Craptiva still slogs along, seems like the few buyers don’t Google. It seems…

Yes, unless you can convince the transport department it is 30 years old.

What do they care? It will come out of the pocket of hard working Oz folk who are over taxed so the government can waste without guilt.

I think his out of control eyebrows may have contributed to his view being blocked. I’m surprised Mrs Queen hasn’t clipped them for him.

“Changing wheels messes with ride height, suspension operation, transmission shift rates, braking distances.”

Fun fact - the first 928 has 34 kg of wire in it.

David, when I was a whipper snipper in the mid ‘80s I took my first trip to Europe in January. I had a Opel Corsa, probably 1.2 litres, summer tyres and no snow chains, manual and 2 doors. I drove this thing along the alps from Rosenheim heading to Mulhouse in France. There were times I thought I would die, heading…

As lovely as they are, and obviously forged, I could have my very smart friend make a set for under US$6000.

YES - people are stupid, and it is never their fault.

I for one will admit I did know, and he’s also just known as Bibi.

CLEAN YOUR BLOODY CAR FOLKS. YOUR TRADES ARE DISGUSTING.

1000 FT/LB = 1355 Nm.

Yep, not to mention same number plate and absence of rubber seals, thickness of panel etc etc