Neutral: EV SUV’s

Back in 1998, I attempted the relatively remote Bullita Stock Route in my 1987 Land Rover Defender. It’s an old 80km trail in the Gregory National Park in north west Northern Territory, Australia. I was accompanied by an Israeli dentist/backpacker, fresh out of the Army after two rotations, officer material and…

Without a doubt...and, as someone whose day was damaged when that wish did not come true on one occasion, I have every sympathy for their lack of haste.

OK. Now we have the Hellcat SUV. We can we have the Hellcat Grand Voyager?

Turns out that Oz is getting the Commodore version of this (Tourer) but with the 3.6L V6. And that’ll be the only engine choice for the moment. And it’ll be AWD only.

I’d be waiting for a head to head against the Kia Stinger before I’d drop any coin on this.

Had a work truck manage this. Toyota Dyna diesel. I took off up the road from the depot and the oil light came on. Went back to the shed and checked the oil. The dipstick looked like it had been dipped in Vegemite.

Yeah we get that too. The US not so much nor the Hilux it is based on. The concept will have nothing to do with it.

Virginia Beach doesn’t sound very American to me...

You clearly don’t live near David Tracy.

The attendant had probably done that many times before...

“I will pump your gas but you can beat your own thief.”

More like Samsung actually. Two generations late and some models still explode...

Oh yes it can...but it probably won’t. Not everywhere anyway.

The only way this concept can work properly in a global model sense is if the FT-4X is intended to replace this:

Not a hope in Hades.

Battle cars, eh? Agreed it’s not a new thing...

Agreed but they are not actually centre mounted and speedo (whilst not centred to the streering wheel) is in drivers sightline. 1st gen Yaris had similar arrangment...

Is that the current US spec dash? Yikes. That’s not very nice.

Okay...that means the Model 3 can never be sold in Australia.