Bearing in mind that a 4WD Hilux is only $7K NZD more than this, you’d really have to want a vehicle in the style of a Jimny.

Except COVID-19 is not a statisitcal threat at all to healthy children and s not even a practical threat to them on any rate higher than a healthy adult.

Agreed.  Didn’t happen 11 years ago, shouldn’t this time.

Your numbers assume that the virus infects 100% of a nation’s populace.

Please reference the fact that ZERO children under the age of 9 have died from COVID and revise your statement.

There is no evidence to support the claims of asymptomatic spread. Less than 1% of the cases in China were reported as such, and the medical community of skeptical and still investigating the validity of those claims.

I’m thinking of this virus as if it were Ebola. Others should too

You do realize that the mortality rate is very much an estimate based on current numbers and is, in no way, indicative of the ACTUAL mortality rate of the the virus, right? And that that mortality rate has been dropping steadily as we’ve gotten more widespread and accurate testing online.

Even in the years when they get the vaccine wrong and it becomes essentially useless (2004-2005 for example), not everyone in the country contracts the flu. Basing the possible death rate on 100% of the population, as ForSweden did, is plain stupid.

That’s not really realistic. Not everyone can just hunker down and not go anywhere or do anything for a month or two. At that point everyone is going to be going to a grocery store for supplies, which there is really no way around. The whole world can’t just stop because of something like this.

Every one of Erik’s “Hot takes” are terrible.

for a 1.2% mortality rate? It’s actually lowering overall fatal percentage. 

I don’t see how this is all that different from the NBA canceling the season moments before one of their games tips off in which at least two of the people on the court already had the virus. I get that this is Jolopnik and not Deadspin so the focus is for motor sport but all this my-gawd-look-how-dumb-the-FIA/Formula…

In the seller’s defense, nobody and I mean NOBODY is looking for a Marvie. Hell, I’m into both JDM imports and old trucks, and I had no idea this existed. I want it, though.

Yeah, this truck ticks all the right boxes.  And it’s a unicorn in this country.  I didn’t know these existed, now I’m in love with it.  It’s even got all the premium bits on the interior.  

This is exactly why I voted NP.

2 sticks, dropdown tailgate, 3 rows, no rust, low milage, cheaper than 4runners with 300000 miles. NP. this would be a fun truck.

Of course you would when your not bitching about off the wall concepts or trucks or shit you can’t afford as an automotive “journalist” you happen to be sucking off some other cornball in the same field. 

10/10 would daily.

Would you pay that for an unadulterated Saturn Sky? No. So why would you pay it for a Saturn Sky with a bad body kit?