My first thought was London Taxi...which makes me wonder which of us has less taste.

As someone who drives a European car that was designed for LHD and then ‘factory engineered’ for RHD and exported to Australia...I am not infrequently wiping the windows whilst indicating a turn. Even after owning the car for over a decade. And because most cars in Oz are Asian sourced...when I drive on of these...I…

This’ll be a win until you have the new batch of beginner electryclists whinging about being punted to the gutter by uncaring motorists in their enclosed death weapons...and then whinging about cyclists because they arc up when the beginner electryclists try to avoid getting maimed by using bicycle lanes...

I’ll take the one that looks like a melted Dodge Viper with its cabin on backwards...simply because F1 engine makes it seem almost sensible.

Spend months in it driving place to place around Australia loaded with camping gear, bicycles and my family...

Would you feel better if the typically proportioned version had a supercharged Range Rover V8 in the tray rather than under the bonnet? Mid engined SUV!

Neither the Outback nor the Forester are ever going to set the world on fire (let’s face it even the WRX is basically dull if you discount the driveline). But you have to give Fuji Heavy Industries credit for their longevity and sheer competency in this niche - they make product that is almost Camry like in its go-to…

Way back in 1998 I had the pleasure of punting a Peugeot 106 with a 4cyl 1.2L engine though England up into the Highlands of Scotland and the Isle of Skye and back again. By golly...that was far more fun than it had any right to be.

Is a 5.0 Litre V8 enough?

Did you know that not only are they still making it but they are also rebadging it in Australia as the Fiat Freemont? And selling it alongside the Journey...

That’s just nuts...

It amuses me that I can’t put my dog into a boarding kennel if we go on holiday unless I can provide an annual vaccination certificate for the animal. Yet I can leave my son with his school every day of term without any proof at all of his vaccination status...

Maybe the HD target market is shifting to lycra powered bling?

Cool thing and great review. There’s quite a few variants of this idea around but the molded plastic body is a ‘new thing’. As batteries get better and legislation gets more able to cope with new things like this then I think this niche is on a winner.

I recall taking a mid 1980s Toyota Dyna truck for a lap around the Mount Panorama circuit in Bathurst, Australia in 1989. One of many motor vehicles that I did the circuit in over the four years I lived there...

Yep. 23. It’s the rear corner windows that bring the count up.

Hardly...it simply suggests that the Australian led design team that worked on the Chinese Taurus used the current Falcon as inspiration...

I was under the impression that this Taurus was designed and engineered purely for the Chinese market. North America and RoW markets will get a rather different beast.

Ours once looked like that - drop dead flash. Then just like your favorite centrefold - it began to age. After less than a decade it entered a period of bondo and cosmetic surgery which became an unhealthy obsession before suddenly melting away in a cascade of rust, oil smoke and failed pink slip notices...so sad.

They always said this one was more of an engineering refresh and that the new generation would come in 2020 on the the modular floorpan. Plus it was making plenty of money just the way it was so why fully re-tool now if there was no reason to?