Search for ‘ sylvanus bowser ‘ - inventor of the fuel dispensing pump. I don’t know why people still use the word here, but they do.

I’m not saying it would be better, but I would convert my 2015 Holden ute. You can’t buy a single-cab ute with a seven-foot tray in Australia, let alone an EV variant - because car-based vehicles with a tray aren’t a thing anymore.

Yes, and your point is? Everyone interested in cars in Australia knows the Holden dominated sales for many years after its introduction. The Falcon was successful in relation to the rest of the non-Holden market, until it started to have equipment failures which required the re-engineering I mentioned.

“Steven Spielberg, who is probably the greatest movie director of all time”

The first Falcon was a relative failure in Australia, selling well at first until durability complaints meant later models had to be altered to suit Australian conditions. These changes led to it becoming a success for decades until Australian car manufacturing ceased in the 2010's.

Le Mans.

Good. In a few years I might be in the market for an EV and this would have been something that might have put me off a VW. While they’re at it, add some more physical buttons on the dash for regularly used features and make the software reliable and I might be a customer.

That’s great - I hope it happens here in Australia too

I forgot to mention I’m in Australia, but we have Shell stations here so maybe we will get it eventually.

I hope you’re right - I’d love an app-free charging experience if I manage to get an EV for my next car.  As for them making money off externals, that’s fine, as we don’t have to buy them.  Ideally, some forward-thinking brand of fuel will start switching some pumps for chargers over time (providing it’s possible) and…

They don’t give a shit about your ease of charging, it’s all about data - that’s why they won’t do something as simple as what you suggest - because they get nothing from the transaction beyond your payment.

Cruise control and USB music playback.  I didn’t have either before my last two cars and wouldn’t give them up now. I understand that I likely won’t have to go without them, but I would walk away from a car that doesn’t have them.

Legends Of Speed - Bill Woods. It chronicles Australia’s journey through motorsport from Tony Gaze, WW2 Spitfire pilot and Australia’s first Formula 1 driver in 1952, through to Mark Webber racing F1 in the modern era. I learnt a lot about our pioneer drivers reading this book.

The crawler is my favourite vehicle of the space program. I went to IMAX to see the Apollo 11 documentary from a few years ago and the first image is a closeup of the crawler.  You can imagine the impact of it at that size. Anyone interested should watch this documentary (it’s now available in 4K)

Please don’t ruin my favourite Simpsons episode with that image.

Holden Commodore ute, so there would be an electric replacement for mine in a few years, when I hope to trade it for an EV of some sort.

All the stars. Brazil has been in my top five movies for decades now. Love it.

I don’t yet know which vehicle it will be, but I hope it will be electric.  If we could get the Lightning in Australia, that would be ideal.  

My uncle had a Kawasaki 900 when I was a kid in the 1970's. I don’t think it was the top-spec version like this one, but it was fast enough when he took me for a ride on it.

885 feet