Mate! Now...will it Ute?

Australia. America. Austria. Pick one.

Because why the fuck not?

The photograph is reversed. Common problem in the UK.

Oh I’m with you on red lights and cyclists. A red light is a red light. And a stop sign says STOP for a reason.

You might want to be less prescriptive about what an automotive enthusiast is. Your call suggests that your automotive enthusiasm is about the driving and the skill of driving. Many automotive enthusiasts are into the wrenching and engineering and they may never actually build a car that is fast or handles apexes at…

“Cyclists - 50% of the problem since...whenever.”

Australia had the Up! We bought the Polo instead because it was more car for not much more money. Australia no longer has the Up!

Probably. Subtletrees are rare, palatable and yet highly flammable. It’s amazing they survived this long as it is.

Sold Opel & Vauxhall. Abandoned Holden. Ending codevelopment arrangements with the South Koreans. Leaving Russia. Leaving Europe. Leaving numerous markets....

GM is doing what America does best these days... withdrawing from the world. Is it good strategy? Dunno. But it seems to fit the local state of mind.

...do I win?

Complete and utter agreement. Well almost complete...

Izuzu got their 3.0 L diesel to Euro6 and did it for just the Oz market (so it must’ve been cheap). Just been launched in Oz in the D-Max and MU-X.

Personally I’d like to see a Mini Countryman with a pop-top. And billionaire doors...

...and then the kangaroo hops out onto the road.

I suffer from that mentality. The reason I suffer is that it would cost me the best part of fifty grand to replace what I have with the latest version of the same thing. And then there’s the 30% depreciation in the first two years.

The Matilda Highway between Longreach and Cloncurry in western Queensland...

Watching (from the back seat) my Mum blithely rallying my Dad’s Citroen CX through the Tasmanian high country, completely oblivious to the dirt roads beneath due to the epic suspension...before binning it on a sweeping right hander and marooning the thing on a boulder. Eventually a passing farmer and his tractor came…

Branded? Sure!