Comments by "Adrian McLean" (@adrianmclean9195) on "IWrocker"
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The Isuzu trucks are pretty standard across the country for RURAL fire services and often 4wd and raised - some have entire sprinkler systems and roll over protection. Due to economics of scale and dependability and part of GM and it's history here, they are very popular and probably more cost effective against Europeans and distance to Japan. Metropolitan fire services are often Scanias.
Country fire services are usually volunteered. Like surf life saving. Financially wouldn't work otherwise, due to area and small population and seasonally dependant. Part of the Aussie spirit.
The second white hatchback Commodore, code name ZB, is the last Commodore imported from Germany. Opel. ( Opel, itself along with Vauxhall, now sold by GM to the P. S. A. Group, which is Peugeot, which acquired Citroen many years ago. They are now all part of the Stellantis group including Jeep, RAM, Dodge and Chrysler.) When we stopped making OUR Commodore VF II, in 2018. The new imported one did go through a minor Australian development program. Hatch and wagon. Some AWD. Turbo diesel and turbo petrol 4 and GM 3.6 V6. You have them in the US, badged as Chevrolet Malibu, Buick Regal, ( La Crosse ?, Impala ?, Cadillac? ) . Also known as the Opel Insignia in Germany where it originates. Vauxhall Insignia in the UK.
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So, if you're following from behind, and haven't seen the truck from any other angle - then the sign behind lets you know how many cars - trailers - bogies?, it is towing - so you can calculate when to overtake.
I hired a BMW Z4 from Hertz in Adelaide and drove it across the Nullabor to Perth - when overtaking ON A STRAIGHT - you need to have time and move with the trailers, as they do move slightly from side to side.
Tried to see how fast the BMW would go on the Western Australian section, where there was the Flying Doctor's Emergency Landing Strip, built into the hwy, when no one was around and full to the horizon visibility - I had to back off at 160 kmh, because the car had early electric steering and felt very nervous - very Autobahn unlike feel. Run flat tyres, and your bottom near the rear axle, made it a very bumpy ride. Tight body for a soft top - both Volvo C70 and Mustang convertible soft tops had massive body flex - particularly in the doors and windscreen scuttle.
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If you Google an Australian television program called: Hungry Beast, from quite a while ago - done by University Students - many who are now well known TV presenters and journalists - you will find their documentary on Coles and Woolworths and how they operate. Very chilling and predatory.
Both the UK and the US are currently talking about and studying the monopolisation of supermarkets and how only a handful dominate their markets. But in Australia, we basically have only TWO - so a lot worse here - particularly for remote and rural/regional Australia. We have just had a major govt. enquiry on these two supermarkets. Not good New laws and watchdog and fines. Needs dilution. Recently found that both were the most expensive. Very little difference. Aldi was much cheaper. Customer Service at Checkout is appalling. Forced to use self checkouts. The girl in the video, on ALL accounts was VERY restrained and this has become a hit around the country. The fat woman in black - on phenomenal salary and her goons, were virtually just repeating their written company spiel, in-person. Absolutely appalling. As for illegally filming - NSW detectives - who knows their laws - will tell you that is is not illegal to film in public.
Many TV investigations on the " duopoly ". When grilled, live on air, by Four Corners ABC investigative journalists, the previous CEO - possibly an arrogant white supremacist South African - put his foot in it and tried to backtrack - a couple of days later, he conveniently resigned. Just scum. They treat farmers with contempt and hold them to ransom, with many afraid to speak out. As I have stated before on Social Media - the Hungry Beast program needs to be repeated, as it is more relevant now, than when it was released.
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ABS is for steering when braking.
As you can see in the video, he has the steering on full lock but it is not responding.
On a normal surface, ABS would take longer to stop then without, because of friction between the road and tyres.
If the surface is wet etc, the ABS will stop shorter - again because of friction - in that case, NO friction with tyres and road surface - just skidding. This is where ABS does both. On dirt Mitsubishi Australia discovered that an S class Mercedes Benz took longer to brake with ABS. This was because the non ABS car built up a wedge of dirt in front of the tyres, due to wheels locking up. Steering of course didn't work. So more to do with steering.
Mitsubishi Australia patented a ABS + 3 system, that detects the car on dirt and allows sufficient periodic locking for shorter braking on dirt whilst still steering.
Again, wheels magazine from a while ago, has a great comparison photo of a Lancia, Alfa and prelude all braking at the same speed, surface and point, next to each other, and the prelude with it's ABS was far further forward than the other two. The comic photo, from above shows journalists playing dead on the road behind the prelude. 😂 Some sports cars - like the Audi Quattro Sport, short wheelbase has switchable ABS. So you can turn it off when you want to, for the skill of the driver and road surface etc.
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We have a spider, called the White tail
It is normal size grey to black with a cigar shaped body. Sometimes it has a distinct white spot at the end of it's body. Sometimes they maybe all over the body. Like a redback, they vary greatly.
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They are interesting because I don't think anyone yet has the true verdict on them - as I hear different stories about their toxicity and what causes it, even from a professor from the ANU - ( Australian National University ).
I've been bitten twice. Once by the East Gippsland version and once in my hometown of Albury-Wodonga - where they are very common.
I believe an Aboriginal Elder, had his legs amputated from below the knees, because of necrosis. They are quite creepy.
They usually appear in your house at night, when it is quiet. They actually sense out living things' body heat to feast on. Like a leech, it injects a anesthetic so you don't know it is feeding on you. Very different to other spiders. Often, one of the family members would fall asleep in the lounge room and wake up in the middle of the night - and sure enough, there would be one right next to you. My father was actually bitten on his ankle above his sock line. Started to become necrotic. Had a biopsy. Confirmed and started antibiotic treatment. Was successful.
In Gippsland mine was on the forearm. Large orangey ( similar colour to the fluid you produce if you get extreme sunburn ) circular welts.
Pharmacist in Sale, gave me a cream and oral tablets, confirming it was a white tail spider bite.
Took upto x3 months to completely disappear. My poor mum, was terrified that I would tell visitors that we had white tail spiders in the house. We could never find their nest. Roof cavities were surprisingly clean.
On day one of my placement in Aged Care, all the nurses approached me and asked what was the marks on the back of my neck ???
I said I can't see the back of my neck. They got some mirrors and showed me. They were adamant it was a white tail spider bite. So being the best type of Aged Care facility attached to/as part of a public hospital, they marched me up to the hospital where it was confirmed and I was given Chlorsig ? antibiotic EYE gel, which works very well on these bites. Didn't take as long to heal. No feeling and no feeling of it happening. Some people claim that when they get sick in the future, the bite area flares up again. This can also happen with snake bites.
When I went home that evening, I checked my bed and sure enough, under my pillows were TWO dead white tails. They were BOTH feeding on me during the night. Possibly because they were pregnant females. My body weight when turning must have crushed them.
We eventually found their hiding/nesting spot, when cleaning the bathroom exhaust fans. Because of the humidity, they like to live inside the grille. And a giant pregnant female landed on my arm.
If left untreated, it becomes necrotic and can spread and you can loose a limb. ANU Professor says it isn't actually the spider - but a specific bacteria that lives on their fangs, that enters your bloodstream, that causes the problem.??
So unlike other spiders going about their business, this one actually tracks you down to have a meal - 😂
It would be good to hear other people's experiences of this little bugger.
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Hi, just letting you know that here today in Australia, with the still current heatwave alerts across the country: looking at the Bureau of Meteorology - the predicted temperatures - which are usually pretty accurate, show Canberra our capital, which is inland and elevated and further south, is the hottest today.
Although usually colder in winter, inland areas are usually hotter in summer, with lower humidity and perhaps colder nights, but with heatwaves, it can still be warm at night. Although this would appear normal with any landmass, it shows how hot overall the entire continent is, including Tasmania and how southerly areas are often hotter than the north of the country. Really hot spots are Kunnunurra, Marble Bar.
And heavenly is Boiling hot consistently, Mildura with the cool Mighty Murray to dive into.
Also, being in the Victorian Alps on a bushwalk, amoungst the towering Alpine Ash forests, after an extended heatwave in summer, then it buckets down with a summer thunder, lightning storm: well the smell of the steam created and almost like a fog, is incredibly - the eucalyptus oil in the air is ecstatic and great for your senses, sinuses etc - awesome nature - this is why they bottle the oil and make other numerous things from it - and lol, why Koalas look constantly stoned
Adrian M.
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It's all about efficiency and flow and therefore, safety, stress reduction, public transport effectiveness, less accidents and incidents and even saves petrol. Easy to learn and a lot of fun. The " new " markings for where to wait, weren't there when i resided in Melbourne in the late eighties/early nineties, working at Mercedes-Benz.
You just drove up to the corner, closely side on to the cross traffic waiting on your left and edge as close as possible to the corner, allowing as many cars behind you to fit in, wanting to turn as well, without blocking those behind you wanting to turn left. You were able to double up, side by side as well, all watching the green light to your right, with your head turned in that direction.
Then two lanes would all turn together, to go across the intersection, and flow down the two marked lanes. Works brilliantly and looks/feels cool - especially when everyone is doing it correctly. Some footage from the late eighties, should show this.
Melbourne also has some specific u-turn lanes - but that is another video. 😂😂
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iWrocker - if you input BOM: for Bureau of Meteorology - into Google, it will take you to the official Australian Federal govt. site for weather. Beware, its addictive. Lol 😂
Once there, you can input Mount Augustus, and Marble Bar and Telfer in the search space, in the very top right hand corner and then click on the corresponding Forecast, and you will see the official temps. for those places for a week.
Today and tomorrow, Mt Augustus has 48°c and some areas, particularly those that do not have a radar, recording station can get over 50°c = 122°F and above. In the yellow drop down area on the home page, you can see the current Heatwave warnings and areas plus Tsunamis, cyclones and flooding. At the moment we have ALL four.
Its one of the worlds best and simplified. BOM app will alert you to warnings and locally.
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That day was definitely NOT happy, for the ORIGINAL people's that populated the Greatest Island for 80,000 years.
I'm sure if China invaded Australia today, and permanently took it over, we wouldn't be celebrating that day !!!
It's a fact, you simply can't argue with - why - because it happened.
All they are asking for is NOT to stop, Australia Day, but to move it to another, less sensitive day. Simple. Aussie cricketers, for example - just recently - are also calling for that. Nothing changes, still celebrate, but on another day - to move things along and show reconciliation. Then, the current Australia Day date, will become Invasion Day, with the country understanding the importance of it. None of this, NEEDS to be complicated. 😊
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@Alberthoward3right9up our first Magna here in Australia had no V6. But the model afterwards, code named TR, did - 3.0 litre. Next series, dumped the Astron and replaced it with a 2.4 new, more efficient 4 cyl. The 3.0 litre six became so popular, that they then cancelled the four as well.
The luxury version, we called a Verada, got a 3.5 V6.
Later on this was also offered on the base models. Such a good engine and much more fuel efficient than the commodores and falcons of the time, along with the 5 speed auto. It too was so popular that they got rid of the 3.0 litre and just had the 3.5.
This remained until, the Magna finished and they did the 380 as a swan song, modified from the US.
3.8 litre V6 with either 5 speed auto or manual. Very nice, but lost it's fuel advantage. Bigger than commodores 3.6 V6.
They also last long. Still many on Australian roads - set a benchmark in Australia for refinement and crash safety and efficiency.
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Peugeot has a fantastic history in Australia. In the 50's, Australia use to have the Redex Reliability Trials, running around Australia on much non - made roads - where probably our cars got their built in long term durability - the original Falcon from the US, was dedicate and failed in many areas - had to be attended to.
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"These funny little french cars" that no one could pronounce, would continuously win the events, sometimes taking 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. Many Australians fell in love with them and were popular with farmers - they worked the best on bad Australian roads, with that incredible ability of the French to make cars RIDE and handle.
Tyres, dampers, foam seats tuned to the suspension and first diesels - hence popularity with farmers. Also, due to their close proximity to Africa, they needed to be durable. The first front wheel drive car to cross the Sahara, was a Citroen ID / DS.
All were made here - usually at the Clayton factory in Melbourne
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Yep - it would be good if ALL the experts and documentation could come to a consensus worldwide on what snake is the most deadliest: with tables for : toxicity and venomous ( effect vs amount )
Aggression, multiple strikes, speed, and likelihood of coming into contact with them.
And antivenin access.
Same with spiders.
I had heard that the Black Momba, was the world's most "deadly".
But, that Australia, after that held so many deady snakes as a proportion of it's snakes and a lot.
Taipan: again was told: not the most toxic, but the most venomous in a single bite, but the toxicity is still very high, hence in Australia, it has been regarded as the most deadly, even though others here are more toxic. I also thought it was aggressive but the video showed that there are x2 types and a message that there are x4 types.
I thought the brown snakes, king and eastern, taipan and tiger snakes were the most aggressive !?
And red belly black snakes were quite placid. Perhaps it also depends on how hard the snake bites and how long it holds onto you ?
So I wish it would all be nutted out.
I was hitting the snout of a red belly black snake with the heel of my boots, for about 15 minutes and didn't know.!?
When I hopped off the felled Murray River Red gum, and turned around and looked at the end of the trunk that I was hitting with my shoes, I heard a really loud hiss , but it was more like a human expelling a full lung of air - and in the narrow core of the trunk was the head of a red belly black snake - I was either striking him or close to him - I presumed he had wedged himself in and couldn't recoil to strike - that's my only explanation!?
I have come across them many a time in public outdoor areas, like the swimming areas of Canberra on the Murrumbidgee River. You just stop, let them pass, and it is all okay.
Fascinated. I'm surprised how high in altitude you can find snakes in summer: flanks of Mt Kosciusko, Orange and tiger snake on top of Mt Buffalo in Victoria.
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@chrisaris8756 Australian ad will show the consequences of going, as you say: " a couple of kms over the speed limit ".
Speeding isn't a right or Freedom, it is chaos.
I'm sure Finland's road toll, proportionately, is lower than that of the US. Do the crime, pay the fine.
Do the crime, pay the time.
Here in Australia, there are some states, that will not only, substantially fine you, jail you, convict you, lose your licence on the spot and register you as a repeat compulsive road law offender - and as a result, you can also lose your car, OR the car your driving, have it crushed and returned to your front yard !!!
I think that's cool.
Do the right thing - no problem !
SIMPLE 😂
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It slips through the cracks, because the government institutions, are corrupted.
Via, connections, lobbying, political donations, jobs for the boys after government, shares, company connections/interests, etc
Same old same old !!
If they are all connected at the top, they have the power ( but actually very weak, and cowardly ), to avoid the scrutiny.
This is worse than a movie
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Yes, most people have answered your questions: anywhere in Australia can get massive storms, both in winter and summer and tropical and non tropical - but, yes Brissie, seems to get the most intense. Water spouts are relatively common on Australias coastline .
Tornadoes not common, BUT seem to be getting more common: hence Armidale, Dubbo, Perth, Bathurst, Rutherglen and Mulwala
Occasionally, a microburst in the middle of the day in good weather can appear, and travel across an inland lake: Lake Hume, and instantly form a water spout, and then dissipate once it reaches shore again.
Checkout the video on YouTube of the x2 young tradies in their Ute filming a twister near Rutherglen, Murray River, Yarrawonga near 2012 ?
Lots of swearing, but very funny.
For all the different reasons, you like Australian video clips, this has it all 😂
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Wow - awesome video, awesome car collection. So good to see these cars in the US.
Helps inform the general US public about these cars, that you may not have got and the innovations and advancement.
The Light 15 Citroen, was first FWD I think, and other things, including independent suspension all round.?
The big Citroen was an ID - the one skewed upside down, vertically on its debut at the Paris motor show in the 1950's.
Everyone was stunned - so ahead of it's time, and masses of orders were taken there and then, guaranteeing it's production.
The DS is the evolution with the big frog headlights that turn on the inside with the steering wheel, so you can see on corners, where you are looking, as normally your beam is straight ahead. Have come back into fashion - eg Volvo.
However, when you see the dates on the Tatras, it just blows your mind, and actually makes them look far more advanced than the Citroen.
Perhaps our current cars aren't as modern as they appear when relative to our time versus back then
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Going a bit left field here - but the traffic light thingy, stating that despite cars only being in existence for about 20 years, traffic lights appeared to keep some sort of order: well this is a good analogy for the " Sovereign Citizens Movement " begun in, of course, the USA !
Watching MANY videos online, of police and courts, taking down these IDIOTS/LUNATICS - who, by the way, are now, also in Australia - many, in the end, based on religion, and yet again " weaponising " religion for their own agenda, and showing their true aggressive nature - anything but Christian and espousing Freedom !? - is all interesting, because their philosophy would end in utter chaos - which would in turn result in restoring ORDER - hence the traffic light analogy.
Just end up where they began. Its very simple to project into the future, what the situation would be if they ruled, and then backtrack to reality. Absolute idiots - i don't know why the courts and politicians aren't out there making this clear and legislating against them, NATIONALLY and repealing those laws, paperwork, system in order to shut them down. Nearly everyone of them, had/has some sort of criminal record, holds a weapon or wants to avoid money/cost - despite living off everyone else's taxes, for facilities and infrastructure they use daily. Its interesting to see them TRY and disassociate with society, but in REALITY are part of it and using it every day.
They want/result in chaos - we want order and a system that works and protects.
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It's our medium to large car, from the '70s, by Holden. Called Holden Torana. Available as a sedan or two door liftback. 2.8 and 3.3 inline 6. Or, 4.2 or 5.0 litre V8. Completely Australian, including engines - not American - only imported 5.7 Chevy, which was not available in this car, only it's bigger brother, the Kingswood. For a short time. Not until the VX Commodore, did the Aussie V8 pass away. Straight Sixes finished in 1986, with a Skyline 6 and turbo, then the US Buick 3.8 V6. Which I think was originally a V8 truck engine, turned into a V6 ???
The model in iWrocker's " man cave ", is the full on racing version for Australian Racing Calendar. Very successful. Road going versions that are original, go for huge money today. Showroom cars of the time, had a version called SS, with lairy pastel colour schemes, wheels and even a camping tent attachment that fitted to the open liftback. Just Google or YouTube it 😊
Very popular with modifiers and drag racing. Street Machine magazine has many pictures of this.
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Always popular here, with lancer, galant, cordia, starion, 3000 gt, Pajero 4wd, commercial vans and trucks, colt, 380, - now only suv, 4wd company. Nissan similar apart from 400z ? ( 380 Z ? ).
Ford US is doing the same.
Have 10 year warranty here, so popular and cheapish and reliable.
Were with Valiant and Chrysler to begin with, then they left and it was solely Mitsubishi.
Chrysler came back later with Dodge and Jeep. Keep making it work here. No more Chryslers. Dodge RAM.
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Whichcar Magazine - from Australia, has a fantastic 2022 Google article, of what car companies own who, in a balloon graph. Explains how car companies are trying to survive - some are sharing, others are acquired. And at the end, it displays those that are basically still by themselves largely. Eg: Honda, Suzuki, Subaru, Tesla, Ford, Mazda, Ferrari etc. Does miss some marques, like Isuzu, Mercury, Lincoln, Daewoo, McLaren, Samsung and Lada - some logos dont have a name to them.
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The Mondeo in Australia was selling along side the Ford Telstar ( Mazda 626 wide body ). Getting expensive and no wagon - so the Mondeo sold at the same time in the same category by the same maker. They didnt sell well, though because their sumps were vulnerable. As a result, we missed the wide body next generation and came back with the current body type. To satisfy the idiots at the top of Ford Us, our last Falcon: FG-X, was to look like the global Ford, hence its Mondeo type front end. The rear resembles some Jaguars, as i think Ford still owned Jaguar then ?
Ian, you need to look up the different ZANY body types of the DS Citroen and its successor, the CX. 12 wheelers, camera car at race tracks, beluga whale looking vans and cabriolets, etc. Their suspension made them the ideal Ambulance for reducing shocks to the patients.
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Ian - having worked in the motor industry, you should not be ignorant of car companies being bought out. The US is the worst. GM killing OUR Holden, SAAB, Opel, Vauxhall, etc and Ford: Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, Range Rover, Aston Martin. If not killed, then sold off to another country, not the original country. But, by no way, will the US loose their cars. Hypocrisy. Bentley is the VW-Audi Group. Rolls Royce is BMW as is Mini. BMC in Australia, finished a long time ago. MG - Morris Garages - name was bought by the Chinese. Nothing to do with the famous English sports cars. Rover went, as did Triumph, Austin and Morris and Hillman and Humber. The list goes on. I'm not sure who now owns Lotus - it once was owned by Petronas - Malaysia's biggest oil company and the twin towers!!??
They in turn own Proton - rubbish cars that didn't survive Australia - wheels magazine quoting: better to walk.
Tesla's began as Lotus bodies.
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Sounds all VERY weird - it makes me think that their are persons/orgs/self interest groups, in the background pulling YouTubes' strings. Swearing, does get tiring in Australia, I really hope we eventually get over it - but any Australian Latest Road Cam Videos, is full of it and not removed. Performance Artist Statues, scaring people has swearing. There is a plethora of far more sinister and disturbing things on YouTube - so I simply don't understand. Ian's intentions are not sinister, but all in good fun and has a family. He is careful what he reacts to.
Sorry, but I just don't understand. Dumb founded. Particularly the Emu eating the boys hamburger - that was simply cute and funny and other Reactors have also presented it. Hopefully Ian doing this video, will knock some sense into the powers to be - whoever they are ?
PS - yes AI intervention - easy to let it do all the work, and then get us to do the leg work to YouTube to complain or get a review. Then they will look into it with an actual human. It may just be a matter of time, before the AI gets on the nose and they revert back to how it was. Algorithms often don't work - it isn't as perceptive as the human brain. 😊🦘🙄🌏
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I did a trip from Adelaide to Perth, across the Nullabor, hugging the coast in a boiling hot new year, in 2006, in a rented BMW Z4, base model. Horrible, unsecure electric steering and hard riding run flat tyres .
On the Royal Flying Doctor's airstrip landing sections of the highway, I tried to see how it would feel at speed with no one around and clear visibility - the steering prevented me from trying as it was appalling - maybe better now - very un-BMW like.
I discovered that when overtaking road trains, you must only do it when you have a clear line of sight for a very long distance to overtake in time.
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If you watch your video close up, you will notice that the trailers actually move from side to side - it is not straight - so with the natural pull and buffetting that you get when passing a semi, you actually need to time your overtaking with the last trailer going outwards rather than inwards. And as you pass, you sort of slow down and speed up with the swaying of the trailers, so each time you have them next to you, they are moving away from you, in succession.
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Non mobile numbers, a bit complicated: we do have area codes.
They are simply 2 numbers, before the main number - not always shown
Used to be three numbers ?
They used to represent localities.
Now they are for states - some states sharing the same area code - due to Australia's low population and vastness.
Growing population - extra number required.
Cities may have had 2 digit area code and country areas, were 3 digits?
Country numbers x6 digits
City, were 8 ?
Oh - bugger - I'm totally confused 😂
Something like that
You no longer need an area code if ringing from within the state, or in a state that shares the area code.
Cities and towns now have the same amount of numbers and longer.
I think a 9 at the beginning of the main number, signifies a city ????
A number, 6 digits long starting with 13 - is a national number that can be rung from anywhere, at the cost of a local call, without an area code.
1300 and 1800 numbers are usually free numbers, depending where you are calling from and if using a mobile.
All Telstra public pay telephones, are now free.
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Holden Cruze - last versions were made in Adelaide - it's actually a Daewoo product with input from GM. ( GM owning Daewoo )
Last 1.4 turbo four, SR I, I think, hatch in Orange, was probably the best - sold well, good reports from motoring journalists comparing similar cars from overseas.
Very good ride/handling, steering, performance.
Basically nearly everything in the Holden range, towards the end, was a rebadged Daewoo, apart from Colorado Ute ( Isuzu ), Holden Arcadia ( Buick/GMC ), Holden Astra ( Opel ), Holden Malibu ( Chevrolet?/ Daewoo? ), Holden Equinox ( US GM? ), Holden Trailblazer ( wagon version of the Colorado Ute - Isuzu ) and of course the actual Holden Commodore range - Ute, Caprice, Sports wagon and sedan.
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These are very common GAS hot water systems, used in Australia for a long time now. Bosch, the German brand, is a common one. They do without a big standing tank, holding water, that is subject to the temperature changes around it, and not requiring to constantly heat a whole tank of water, so it is hot when on call.
Instead, the gas wall system, has no pilot continuously running and is on demand. So as you turn on your hot water tap, it instantly fires up, and water is drawn through, a series of coils through the flames, basically. So heating as it is used. Much more efficient.
However, gas in Australia, has done a massive turn around from being the cheap energy source, to the most expensive. Victoria now doesn't allow new builds, to have gas or new estates. So the system isn't really advantages anymore.
This is despite Australia having possibly the biggest gas reserves in the world. It is basically all exported. A joke. Corporate politics at work. It's also what killed LPG vehicles in Australia - we lead the world in dedicated gas car systems: aka Ford Falcon E-gas Barra - which was better than the petrol version. Patented pre-priming system, where as you walked towards your car, your key fob in your pocket, would talk to the car, and have it ready to start, once you hopped in. Ironically gas is half the price of any petrol type at the moment and the cheapest. But not regularly available. Unbelievable.
New hot water systems, are electric heat pumps - often solar powered.
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At 11.47 is Citroens largest car: the C6. The main ice green one is a concept, but the black car in the left hand corner, showing the headlight is the real thing. So it is the successor to the DS. DS, then CX, then XM and then C6. Still has its hydrophenumatic ? suspension and could have a 2.2 litre twin turbo diesel with 8 speed auto. Can Google it. The car is famous for having the interior designed BEFORE the exterior. Quite a few in Australia at ridiculously low prices. If you are with a Citroen Car Club, running and maintaining it is relatively easy, with excellent fuel consumption, huge range, torquey grunt, refinement, cool interior - usually in light colours and super smooth ride - just made for Australia 🦘
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The original little Toranas, were based on the English Vauxhall Viva - with the sixes, having a longer nose to fit in.
The next generation, larger one was Australian designed with some resemblance to Opel. Our sixes and V8s. Yes - you would have a little transparent plastic film chart of the different car bodies and were able to place this over the colour chart, to see how the car looked. Plus interior colours, vinyl, cloth and leather. Green, red, cream, blue, grey, black, brown, tan, white. Colour charts online. Only remember Renault 12's rivaling the local cars for colours. But they were usually Pastels. Also solid and metallic. Sedans, coupes, wagons, panel vans, Utes, long wheel base coupes, tray Utes, long wheel base luxury sedans and even limited 4wd wagons. Trim levels including special packs like Sandman, Sundowner, Drifter, Rallye,. Today it's just all black interiors unless it's very expensive. Thank goodness for Volvo and their still available cream vegan interiors. 😊😅
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Melbourne - suburb: Avalon ( airport there, that has a biannual airshow ), in the early 2000's had 48.9°c. Outback heat, moves across, from West to East, in Australia - may then hit the Great Dividing Range, and if there is an Easterly force pushing back from the ocean, then that heat can "pool" for days, possibly weeks in the one large area, being fed by more internal heat and winds and maybe even hot air from the north as well - when the temperature at night does not get relief from winds, then you have a heatwave created, getting hotter on top of the previous days heat. So apart from outback and the north, South Eastern Australia can receive record temps and heatwaves. We have already had fires since July. Many structures already lost. Catastrophic Fire Ratings already, El Nino declared, state fire services moving from state to state for support. Much land burnt. Still going. Some planes lost and unfortunately some lives. If you ever want to see what's happening - just Google QLD or NSW or VIC rural fire services, and you will work out which is which, and get to the LIVE maps, showing what's happening where and evacuation orders or remain in place, to late to leave and what to do. The B. O. M., is a fantastic ADDICTIVE site, that explains everything and has so much to discover.
Our NATIONAL broadcaster, has the Emergency warnings - ABC Emergency and a map of Australia and current incidents.
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@MickH60 yep - and none of our petrol comes from Russia - seriously - with the take up of electric vehicles and better economy, the demand would go down, supply the same, so cost should go down, but they restrict supply to keep profits.
Same with electricity - solar, wind take up, some off the grid - so demand down, supply higher than ever, particularly with feed in, so price SHOULD come DOWN ...... but, it has skyrocketed.
With all the profits they have been making for so long - why haven't they invested in increased pole and line and grid capacity and getting the damn things underground - then storms and fires wouldn't have such an impact, physically and financially
With everything that is going on - people don't need extra financial burden when it can be avoided
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That's correct.
Mercedes-Benz does not like bad publicity.
Many Australian magazines over the years have got the company angry.
Sometimes refusing to allow journalists access to cars.
Also many of their new car dealerships here won't service very high km cars. They also owe the Australian Tax payer, millions of dollars of COVID-19 payments that were wrongly applied for - and they even made profits here, during the pandemic - which is not good when you see their prices here, with poor and low income Australians, subsidizing an arrogant company and their wealthy customers. Having worked at Mercedes Benz dealership, they at the time payed well below other car makers. Car of choice for world criminals. Stole the Citroen DS's suspension without paying royalties like Rolls Royce. Tend to break down just outside of warranty here in Australia and only recently moved to a more competitive warranty length.
Financial disaster after warranty and second hand - repairs, maintenance and massive depreciation.
Also there is doubt about their role in world war 2 and reparations to the Jews - a group from Israel have been pursuing this from the German car makers for a long time.
VW Australia has offended many customers - with the customers taking them to court. Not honouring new car warranty claims. The diesel gate affair. The STILL unreliable DSG gearboxes. The sudden acceleration issues in the US etc.
And, surely the most annoying little. twirps on Australian roads, are driving Golf GTi s and VR 6's.
German cars, overrated and unethical.
Give me the French and Volvo any day
I wish SAAB was still here.
Mercedes Benz did not like it when an Australian car magazine showed how an S- class with ABS stopped LONGER on gravel. Local Mitsubishi Australia engineers, patented a thing called ABS 3+ ??, that surpassed the Mercedes in this situation on our locally made Magna and Verada.
Australians, often are driving on unsealed roads.
And yes we STILL have sections of no speed limited areas on the Stuart Highway, that is longer than any Autobahn. And with clear sight and no one around.
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The Ute - Australian slang for Utility - predated and probably set the foundations for the US "pick up truck".
The US El Camino and Ford Ranchero and the Dodge one, were followers of the Australian Ute. Car based. Either separated tub or one unit.
So with their demise the Ute doesn't exist anymore.
Simply American pick up and Asian originating twin cab, single cab and extra cab commercial vehicles. I'm not going to call them Utes.
We also predated this term, before the terms: SUV, RV etc.
Thankfully, they will live on in Australia, with people eventually remaking parts, so they can continue, as with any old vehicle.
The Tesla won't have the sound, and certainly doesn't have the looks - and we've yet to see if an electric Ute can perform in Australia with a/c full on, with climate change, towing, full load and passengers on trying roads for long distances and availability of charging stations.
We'll see ???
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A Subaru Liberty and Outback, are the same thing. The outback is simply a raised version with wheel arch covers, etc and other things.
The Forester is smaller, but only sold here as a crossover - not an SUV. Crossover being the term used to describe an already existing wagon, converted for the market into an AWD/4WD raised semi capable car. I think the Forester is it's own thing. Very common in Australia and very common in our Alpine areas. Snowy Hydro have them on fleet. You can see them out the front of each Snow designed snowy Hydro houses in Cabramurra in the NSW Snowies - Australia's highest town.
Volvo V 70 XC, Holden Adventra, Outback, Volvo V90 XC, a last SAAB one, ZB Calais Tourer, Skoda Octavia Scout ?, Audi RSV6 wagons of old, etc.
In Australia , the Forester was competing with a new class that it help to found. Original Honda CR-V, Toyota Tercel and later RAV 4, Honda Civic Shuttle AWD, Mitsubishi Pajero iO, Susuki Vitara and the Alfa Romeo 33 Monte Carlo.
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You're lucky, you don't have Chinese cars, in the US. The US is not letting them in. Worldwide, BIG problem.
Coming from no-where, via steeling intellectual property rights. European Union is very concerned. Absolutely swamping the Australian market. I DON'T LIKE IT !
So aggressive. We will regret it, down the track.
MG : stands for Morris Garages.
English, originally.
When they finished with the demise of BMC, Leyland, Triumph, Rover, Austin etc, the Chinese BOUGHT the name.
The cars are just Chinese cars - nothing to do with MG, nor their platforms, engines, design etc. Living off the name.
Rubbish.
The model Rallye cars from Greece, look awesome.
The Monaro, is the last body type before, Holden went smaller with the German, Opel derived Commodore.
The coupe, has the old HQ rear end.
I noticed the exterior rear view mirror was missing - is it in the box ?
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Okay - too many messages to read through - unfortunately mine will be long - At Albury High School, in the mid eighties, in the library, was a book on yowies/bigfoot. Either in the very front or back was a photo, of the last GIANT "gibbons" captured and killed in a remote mountainous village in China. The villagers are standing with the two monkeys. They stand about 8 to 9 foot tall. Orange long fur, very skinny and lanky, just like a gibbon, strange flat face with massive eyes. This was thought to be the last ones.
Australia has a research group on yowies, called A. Y. R. with many many, videos, some with well known Australians, as witnesses. One was a young Senator and the other was an Anthropologist. There is a Yowie museum in the Sunshine Coast hinterland and it has been on Getaway. Stories of yowies in the Blue Mountains, the Brindabellas and Victorian High Country. I have never seen one. BUT - I have felt a very disturbing "presence" in the Snowy Mountains near Geehi/Tom Groggin in the middle of the night.
As for the rest in the video, I haven't heard of them, apart from the Bunyip - which there use to be a mechanical version of, at the old Ettamogah Sanctuary on the outskirts of Albury. You would put 50¢ in a slot, and a giant frog like creature would rise up and raise it's arms and open it's mouth with a lot of loud noises. I have no idea where it has gone to. You can however find it on YouTube.
Drop bears are a lot of fun, to scare English backpackers with. LOL 😂
As for the black panther, it seems to be predominantly in Victoria. The former host of Family Fued, photographed one on his property near Bathurst/Orange, televised.
In 2004, I drove down the Barry Way from Jindabyne to the Victorian coast. Very remote drive. After bushfires. At about 3 in the morning, before I came to Buchan, on my left, in the culvert, x2 long thick black arms with very large pussy cat paws ( definitely no feral cat !!!! ), reached up onto the embankment and then a very large round cat head with distinct pointy cat ears emerged. I braked and turned around and positioned my high beam on the area. It had already jumped up out of the culvert and ran into a fenced property. This is in far east Gippsland, where most of the sightings have been.
The story I have been told / read, is that the US Navy/Army had black Panthers as mascots during the war, whilst stationed in Australia, both inland and on the coast. Some may have escaped or been released. This makes sense. There would be no predator to inhibit their existence, except humans, so relegated to Forest, mountainous less inhabited areas. There were also traveling circuses, that also had big cats. And there are many documented incidents of accidents and train derailments that allowed animals to escape. So the puma / black panther thing seems feasible. I also have a friend who went pig hunting at night in the foothills of the Victorian mountains and they heard a loud growl that sent everything else that lives in the bush, hurtling towards them. They hid behind large gum trees, to stop from being trampled by kangaroos and then fled back to their car and left. With the Wollomine Pine ( sp ), only discovered in recent times, close to Sydney, it's quite feasible for something to exist that does not want to be seen
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Being raised right next door to Bathurst, and attending the race practically every year since i was 6 and having driven around it many times and known some locals who raced in it as privateers and even my dad riding around it in a new special coach demonstration back in the 70's by a prior ex racer - the local highway patrol, will and DOES sit around the circuit, 24/7 all year round, both in marked and unmarked cars, as well as hiding in the centre of the track. They are particularly looking for Victorians.
The young locals i have seen, sit around the track at night, with communication and tell the others when it is clear.
But - kangaroos are rife - particularly where Mountain Straight meets it's first bend - as happened in one of the actual races.
There is actually a wildlife reserve, i think, at the top, bordering McPhillamy Park - on the Eastern flank. Because there is a fence, then a very old turnstyle gate, that prevents people or animals coming in ?
Ive not tried it, but it IS there.
A normal car, shows just how developed a race car is when you do a lap at legal speed - particularly the esses. And even a good braking system can fade in one lap. 😮
People do live inside and outside the circuit and the circuit is their road/access/street. The local University and TAFE - where they often repair the cars - and the CMA of NSW and a rifle range borders the track. The old Drive-in theatre, also use to sit along a road bordering Conrod Straight.
Also, sometimes there have been tragedies, that aren't always reported outside the local area.
One, being the death of a father and/or his daughter on a motorbike, because of a known local idiot, racing on the track in a 4WD, towing a trailer at the time and being on the wrong side of the road on a blind corner, going the otherway, and collecting them.
So, the police are quite personally committed to making reality set in. You can always try a "track day".
Or get your CAMS licence - and i think that authority has or use to have a building, with flagpoles in the front, on the inside of the track, opposite Forest Elbow. When in Bathurst, you can see the white name on the hill, and it doesnt really look like a hill - but when you are there and at the top, it is totally different. Quite deceiving. Its also good to do a full walk around the entire circuit.
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You probably do have Isuzu's there, but as you showed in one of your videos, when driving in your outback, and showing the Xmas lights in the snow, you drove into a car lot ?, and pointed out a GM Colorado Ute, which looked like our Holden Colorado Ute - so think it is rebadged
GM has/had connections with Isuzu, Suzuki, Subaru, Toyota, Daewoo, Holden, Opel, Vauxhall and SAAB. To have a range of cars, most Holden's were badge engineered, with the above. Some made here.
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We are all in deep shit here - you just cannot keep your head buried in the sand - some of us really do understand and are acting - if Canada experienced what they experienced, just imagine what we are heading for - now that the 3rd year in a row La Nina has finished, and the beginnings of an El Nino, appear to be coming - from one extreme to the other - and the BIGGEST cause, is NOT being tackled - the complete opposite - we have more GAS and coal projects than ever in Australia and the world, and skyrocketing electricity AND gas and inflation and wages not keeping up and rents skyrocketing and houses not built for this, and you can see the perfect storm coming.
Just announced on the ABC, that 2022, was the second worst, ever, world wide insurance cost of anything ever, anywhere for our Floods and storms. A lot, were the worse that have ever occurred and some reoccurring several times in a row in the same place within as many months: eg Lismore.
Floods still occurring - some simply from river systems flowing from floods MONTHS ago, now only just getting to their end destination or mouth.
WA's Kimberley, just had it's worst ever flood disaster, that was photographed from space.
So many areas now uninsurable or too expensive insurance - leaving people in a catch 22 situation - they can't sell and move, because no one will buy, can't insure. Stay, and can't insure. How do you pay for repairs ?
Again and again.
With COVID 19 and worker and supply problems and people not able to pay rent, so they have to move, and businesses have to close because of no staff.
At the moment, in the far south, pristine NSW coast, with record tourist numbers, businesses have had to close and sell, because of no staff. Seal Rocks, in Central north coast of NSW has asked people to stay away, because infrastructure can't cope.
Beautiful unique country, but all is NOT well - divided country, becoming a class ridden country and displaced. Also cost of food and huge petrol cost makes things VERY hard for country people and farmers.
Some were just only getting over drought, bushfires and mouse plagues.
Australia can be very cruel
We do get alpine fires.
And the east coast of Tasmania can reach 40°c.
Hobart can reach 40 and has also had snow on its beaches.
America is hotter though, at 56°c in Death Valley
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The french have been into diesel cars since at least the 1970's. Certainly in Australia. Perhaps before M-Benz. ?
504 over here was so popular, because of its French development, along with the x2 other french makers - for Africa and the Middle East - so they work brilliantly in Australia and their soft suspension for rough Aussie roads made them ideal for farmers who had diesel on their properties. Diesel may have been cheaper than petrol back then, as well. They were also made here in Melbourne.
For fuel cost reasons, France were selling over 50 % diesels in France - BUT - pollution levels scientifically measured in Paris, were very bad, and now they seem to be reverting to small triple and 4 cylinder petrol engines with turbos. Peugeot shares theirs with BMW and Mini. Seem to be long-term reliable, compared to others. Plug-in hybrid 4 cyl petrol turbo Peugeots in Australia, are some of the best in the market. The T9 version of the 308 - after the 306, after the 307 and second generation of the 308, won the European Car of the Year Award. Fantastic dynamics and interiors. At one point became Germany's best selling car. The current 308 looks awesome. Should review it.
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Now, come on, iWrocker - lol 😂 - don't you see the standout intense cherry metallic 4 door HQ Monaro at the very bottom left hand corner.
It probably is Swanston Street in Melbourne. Now a closed off mall, except for trams and taxis - I think.
Probably Melbourne's main Street in the CBD, back then.
This is the same street that AC/DC filmed their famous song: " It's a long way to the top, if you want to ROCK and roll ", moving slowly along, on the back of the flat bed truck.
The title of mid 60's must be wrong, as the HQ didn't come out, until 1971. And it is definitely a HQ - rear c pillar tells you. Always able to verify a photo's true time, if there are enough cars in it.
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4.2 litre "Aussie" V8
Optional 5.0 litre "Aussie" V8
Nice quiet sound, but no performance king. Remember Valiant Chrysler had the "4.3" Hemi six, the biggest six.
We had x2, 4.2 litre Commodore V8's - an original VB SL Sedan with alloys, A/C, power steering, auto GM trimatic, tow pack, oil cooler etc, dark blue - failed us twice - seal in fuel supply line running down the highway and once wouldn't turn off. Build quality not the best - beginning of Holden's nightmare era. Ford's 4.1 six, towed better. But the V8 sound, response and better steering, made it still a nice car. VH update in metallic dark brown with gold stripes and SLE alloys. More performance and better, firmer ride and handling. Again let us down - alternator in a storm in the middle of the night on the Hume Freeway before mobile phones and again with the T-bar pin on its shaft, popping out and preventing it from engaging any gear.
I think these were Australian designed and made V8's - Ford's were American - 4.9 and 5.8.
Cleveland and Windsor ?
When Ford, temporarily stopped V8 production in the mid eighties, it sold it's last batch to the Italian sports car : De Tomaso.
Holden fans were not going to have any of that, and started a campaign, with the slogan: " V8'S till 98 " - which worked.
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I suppose if you transpose a map of greater Europe over the US, the population density difference would be very apparent. Then factor in terrain. Then raw material access. Fuel prices. Emissions. Regulations. Taxes. And the inbuilt personality of the driving urge/style/skill of the European - then you can see why manuals would be more popular. Cost less to buy, maintain, overhaul, run and more flexibility. Jump starting too. With cars small, manuals were essential. Took a long time for a small automatic to be performance adequate and still a fuel penalty and less gears.
Today, ironically, the most speeds you get in a manuals is 7.
Whereas 10 is the max for an auto.
Completely changed around.
Also CVT have technically, infinite ratios. And then automated manuals/dual clutch.
So autos much more common in Europe than before.
But, Europeans still like to drive and want the control, skill, feel and fun, satisfaction of changing gears.
Two different mind sets from two different continents.
I couldn't totally ignore the American freedom factor, too, when it comes to autos.
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We have basically three sets of Land cruisers here in Australia - for a long time.
Heavy duty basic farm/mining land cruisers as in the video, with a turbo diesel V8, possible other engines and in different configurations.
Very, very expensive, but last and have often the BEST resale.
Then you have the less hardcore every day family land cruiser wagon.
Also expensive, to the point that people switched to the Nissan patrol and some people were buying the latest land cruiser just to make a profit, because they could sell them straight away at more than they bought them, because of low supply, long delivery time, COVID-19, huge demand - and people would pay the price. Australia is the world's biggest market for Land cruisers, with I think some Australian input. All through the outback and mining and farms and parks and wildlife service and SES, Police, remote ambulances and fire trucks as well.
The third is the Prado
Basically a smaller brother to the land cruiser.
( the Hilux is in the smaller UTE category, and we have had the Surf and four runner before.
I think the Fortuner, is a wagon version of the Hilux ? )
The Hilux is the best selling "vehicle" in Australia, often swapping back and fourth, monthly with the Ford Ranger.
The market has changed dramatically since the ending of local manufacturing, when it was basically between Commodore and Falcon and earlier, between Falcon and Kingswood.
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So the Insignias, are interesting because, they are the lineage to our original commodore. We went off, in 1988. If we didnt, that would be our Commodore. It was actually sold along side our Commodore. Completely different. Engine a version. Twin turbo 3.6 gm v6 ?? Awd ?
Also came into holden showrooms without holden badges and with the opel badges instead. Not many. Dont know why. When our very last VF ll Commodore finished and local manufacturing finished, but Holden continued to import - this cars next generation was our new IMPORTED Commodore. We using the commodore name and holden badges. Known as the ZB series. Did have some local development. Hatch and wagon, no sedan. Fwd 4 cyl 2.0 litre diesel and petrol. Petrol 3.6 v6 gm with awd. 9 speed auto. Calais tourer wagon had a semi raised suv version. Excellent buy. Very last ones had a seven year warranty, so can still be under warranty today. Massively equipped. Hatch looks like a Hyundai Kia. Wagon much better.
However, motoring journalists tested it back to back with our locally made Commodore and found it overall, not better, considering it being new. Has its advantages but so does the old girl.
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Yep, lots of countries drive on the left, and history explains how that came about, BEFORE cars, in Europe, NOT the US. Sweden I think is the only country that changed - there is a movie, showing this and many "changeover points" around the world, like in South Africa.
Australia has benefitted, not just lost out, over the years with new release cars coming here first as they were made in a right hand drive country.
As most people are right handed, perhaps a right hand drive car just naturally feels right and the controls.
Australia always got "shafted" though by arrogant companies like Mercedes Benz that would not properly convert for our market - despite their profits and markets they sold into.
Whereas little Australia's car exporting, made sure we properly converted: eg indicator stalks on the correct side.
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Russia, Canada, US with Alaska, China, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina - in that order.
( Australia wanted to claim 2/3 of Antarctica, I think ?? )
With Russia being the largest country, it only reinforces the lunacy of the dictator at the helm there at the MOMENT, wishing Russia would be great again ....?????
Sounds like it's history, has been anything but "great"?
More a nightmare - and mostly to it's own people.
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I'm very happy that you checked out the Le Mans Peugeot.
The French make fantastic cars.
The Renault 19, became Germany's biggest selling car .
Citroen's DS from the 1950s, set so many records and features with it's hydro pneumatic suspension and hydraulic assisted steering, auto transmission, turning lights and brakes - which was a "squishy" rubber button, not a pedal. Could drive on 3 wheels.
First fwd car to cross the Sahara desert. M-Benz used their suspension on their S class, without permission. Rolls Royce asked. Lol
Self centering steering.
Renault make semi's and bendy buses.
Peugeots had Michelin tyres tuned to their own Peugeot made shock absorbers and again tuned to the seats, that were made of foam, not springs.
There was even a Bathurst version of the Peugeot 505 as a marketing thing.
You will see sooooo many French cars when watching footage of the Middle East and North Africa and many South American and Pacific countries.
Peugeot has won many European Car of the Year Awards in recent years. Very good electric range.
PSA Group is Peugeot and Citroen.
If you go to their headquarters website, you can see the great cars they make.
Peugeot actually bought Opel and Vauxhall recently.
Now part of the Stellantis Group with Fiat Chrysler.
The around Australia Redex Reliability Trials, of the 1950's on unmade roads and partial outback, were continuously won, often 1,2, and 3 by Peugeot. That and along with their great suspension for Australia and North Africa and being one of the first diesel passenger cars in Australia, and made here, they became very popular and have remained here ever since. Popular with farmers because of Diesel on the farm ( combine harvester, tractors etc ). Before airbags, Peugeot came third worldwide in crash safety, after SAAB and Volvo.
All 3 French brands have been at the forefront of Rallying.
I know Renault use to be part of AMC in the US along with VW and Jeep
Australia has quite a few restored Javelins.
Renault owns the Romanian car Dacia. ( Correct me if I'm wrong - own or share ? ), similar with Lada. May share Samsung motors - last big Renault here, was actually a rebadged Samsung - was Rubbish - suppose to replace the Laguna.
I think they may own Europcar Rentals. Saved Nissan in the 90's.
Hilarious story about Carlos Gohn,? and his escape from Japanese prison to Lebanon - head of Renault/Nissan. Still collaborating and with Mitsubishi. Renault holds the current record for a FWD car around the Nurburgring ? circuit with their limited edition Megane RS. One allocated to Australia and auctioned.
Have been in F1 for ages and now as Alpine - pronounced Al - peen.
Fantastic Renault turbo 5 and V6 transplant into the backseat of these little cars and the Clio.
Zoe was Europe's biggest selling ev.
Also have the Twizzy electric thing.
On top gear, racing the other 2 by bike and public transport in Russia?
First talking car - Renault 25
First "Le plip" remote fob - Renault Fuego.
First hatchback?? Renault 16
First electric auto in a small car Renault 12.
First PROPER people mover: Renault Espace.
First in Electric Formula One with Audi.
Shared the Douvrin ? 2.8 V6 development with Peugeot and Volvo.
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Wow, too many comments to go through -
Australia:
91 - usually for older cars and our previously locally manufactured
95 - premium - pretty standard for most cars, particularly Europeans
98 - for most high performance - ultra
Many can run on 95 and 98 with knock sensor - 98 ultimately better. Renault Clio RS runs better on 98 and you can feel it and measure it on a long journey.
Diesel
E10 - cheapest, but motoring associations and journalists have doubt about long mileage effects ?
Then LPG - Liquified Petroleum Gas - still available, but not as common anymore - absolutely appalling, because we have heaps of it.
Is the cheapest of them all - hovering around the $1.00 / litre mark.
Obviously the supply and demand thing, doesn't apply to oil companies and the oil countries - despite a war - as there is now a thing called: electric, hybrid and hydrogen cars. That weren't there before.
So ultimately, the demand would have reduced !?
Supply ? ....... hmmmmmm
They control supply !
Still would love to see a real life test in Australia between a Ford Falcon BF Series 3 wagon 6 auto petrol in excellent condition, compared to the most equivalent fully electric rear wheel, x2 wheel drive car - fully loaded and five people aboard and towing a boat or caravan in hot summer with AirCon on, doing a big long Aussie road trip for the holidays.
I don't think there is an electric vehicle out there and that's the same affordability, available here and long lived and has a proper dealer network.
Does the battery last for real world reality under that realistic LOAD. How much longer would the trip be and where is the network and how long to get access.
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Ian, you may want to watch the Top Gear episode, where they take the Citroen C6 - the current large Citroen, the DS's 4th generation incarnation - to a horse race to compete with a 5 series BMW with the camera for the race, mounted on the top of each car - and the winner is ....... ???
Responding to one of your replies
Family lineage: DS - sports coupe version, the SM with Maserati engine - Jay Leno has one as well as the DS and its predecessor, the Light 15 ? or Traction Avant ?, which really was a car that set new standards, in use today - would see them during world war 2, with the massive citroen emblem on the giant grilles - the double Chevron - commandeered by the Nazis
Then the CX, then the XM - all with big station wagons, often called Safari's.
Then the current C6
The smaller car was the GS - i think it had a air cooled, flat four.
Later on was a Visa, updates of the 2CV and then a small AX.
The GS was replaced by the BX, then the Xantia - with a very special version, then the C5 to today's C5.
There was also a ZX, little and bigger vans, Berlingo, Zara, C1,C2,C3,C4,C5 and C6, the Pluriel - with multiple roof configurations and the Grand Picasso people mover.
Bought out by Peugeot - so not the same as they were before, sadly.
Citroen Cactus as well. Many electric.
The tiny electric Ami - looks the same back to front. DS name revived to create an upmarket version of Citroen.
Often was a DS version of the standard Citroens.
One very good one, was the little DS3.
However, in Australia we didn't get the Black edition.
Some of this information is possibly wrong and in the wrong order, sorry.
Also; the logo for the new brand DS, looks very similar to Volvo's new upmarket brand, called Polestar - which are now electric. Was going through the courts. Dont know the outcome. Suffice to say, that the DS letters existed well before the Polestar logo.
Anyhow, buyers wouldn't give a hoot - they would buy what they wanted and would know both brands.
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Volvo is known in Australia, as the Swedish Holden.
Was for a long time, the biggest selling European make, in Australia.
Long-term durability and somehow just worked in Australia. Because of its homeland, it's rust proofing is the best. This works for 85% of Australia's population, due to being coastal. Some of the things that make it tough for it's native environment works also in extreme heat. Volvo also often did their hot weather testing in Australia.
Volvo used to design their wagons first, then their sedans around them.
The new 8 series, eventually replaced the legendary 200 series. Porsche co-developed their new engines. Porsche use to make more money from research and development for other car companies, than it did from making their own cars. Yamaha also involved in Volvo engines.
At the beginning of the Supercar V8 series, Volvo was there. Polestar.
Turbo 240 was successful in Australian touring car championship.
Volvo has always been at the front of crash safety. A lot to do with moose and major cause of accidents in Sweden.
The boxy 240 was so, because the more upright the pillars, the stronger it was. Small door openings. SAAB, however, holds the record for the safest cars in the world, from combined information collected from real life crashes from around the world, and put together in Australia's Monash University Crash/Car centre in Melbourne. This is for cars, prior to airbags existing. Then Volvo and then the big Peugeots. Ironically, Peugeots were second best selling European cars in Australia - again because of price, simplicity, durability - as opposed to reliability, dealer network and made for Aussie conditions. Peugeot 505.
YouTube videos of SAAB and Volvo crash testing and advertisements are legendary.
Even the Bee Gees ( Australian , Brisbane ), Staying Alive song, was used by Volvo for their advertising.
A 200 series split a VN Commodore wagon ?, in half, during an accident on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The 850R wagon, often in that pale yellow colour was the fastest wagon in the world at the time. It raced rather than the sedan. Although now owned by the Chinese ( Geely Motors ), not the truck division, I think all the engineering is done in Sweden.?
New Volvo's very underated.
Excellent Polestars.
Excellent Scandinavian interiors, instead of funeral black - yuck !!!!!!!!!!!!
And they still make wagons and cross over wagons, if you don't want to be part of the ludicrous SUV movement - that has resulted in higher death toll, more expense and more environmentally unfriendly.
Go Volvo, go Sweden 😂👍🇭🇲
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So, the Buick, was our last Holden Commodore - when manufacturing stopped here. Code name ZB. Had some Australian development. Wagon and hatch only. The same old Commodore v6 came only as AWD but more refined, economical, better ground clearance, 9 speed auto versus the 6 speed and better top end. 7 year warranty. Still in use by police forces and in NZ.
But - Australian motoring journalists tested it and the old locally made and developed and designed Commodore was a clear match, beating it in certain areas, despite the german car being much newer. There was also a diesel and petrol 4 cyl turbo of both 2.0 litre capacity. The hatch looks Korean, but the wagon looks good. A Calais Tourer wagon, top line is very nice and is done as a cross over, like the vy/vz Adventra.
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The original Honda Accord, had an automatic called a Hondamatic. It had only x2 gears. Basically, an automated manual; as there was no clutch pedal but you had to move the t-bar to change gears, whilst adjusting the throttle - very smooth. Believe it or not, it went quite well for the time - very tractable around town, and first gear gave decent take off. Acceleration at highway limit wasn't too bad - just very buzzy - Honda Rev engines 😊.
This was in the late seventies. Changed to a x3 speed soon after. If you left it in drive only ( 2nd gear - basically Drive and Low ), which it would drive off in - it would eventually result in transmission failure. Citroen had C-matic, and Porsche - Sportomatic.
The Holden wasn't the same, but with low rev, torquey, strong engines - it was workable. Common amongst the big three. Would have derived from the US .?
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I'm pretty angry about this
Japan wanted Australia for it's resources
China probably wants the same - an official CCP comment years ago was "China is the world's biggest population, so it should have more of the WORLDS resources" ....!!???
Antarctica was probably one of the main concerns - treaty finishing not too far away.
Asians have often said that Australia is a big country, with a small population. Yes
For a reason
Apart from Antarctica, Australia is the most arid island.
Population is our biggest problem.
Leave it alone !
It will only lead to desalination and disrupting the basin and ground water
Just check out the land around Swan Hill
Lake Eyre sp?, pronounced AIR, not eerie, is below sea level and our greatest lake, albeit salt.
Leave it alone
One of our natural wonders
Just because it is a desert, doesn't mean it is devoid of life - the complete opposite!
Australia actually has no TRUE deserts, as in Gobi, Sahara etc.
The most important thing though, is that it belongs to the ORIGINAL, indigenous people and THEY decide what to do with it - nothing.
I would have taken the video much more seriously if it hadn't been done from Asia - very wrong
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The raptor, if not imported as a RHD, would require conversion here, which could be another $20,000 ? This is what killed the Camaro here, competing with the mustang. Mustang was RHD, Camaro not, so required conversion. Then the cost to import and ADR legislation etc. listed towards $250,000 for 2022.
I think the problem is the truck. If you look how far it is outside the lines and repositioned back within the lines - it would probably be ON the lines - so the driver probably would have trouble getting out. But this only has a domino effect down the line of cars, next to it and/or no space for a car at all. So the obese rubbish causes the problem. We have done without them for 40 million years, so we can do without them now. The Ranger is sufficient and no 1.
New emission and fuel laws will hopefully curtail them. Obviously they are already causing problems and surfacing on social media.
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Yeah - Volvo is showing clearly the difference between an SUV and Wagon.
If you placed the cross over version of the v60 against the xc60 - both awd - you will see that ground difference is minimal, ride height a bit more and the xc60 overhangs are probably shorter and probably the wheelbase. Very few of the xc60's would be doing full 4wd actions. It really makes the point of an SUV, invalid. Just a craze. The only thing i have commonly heard, is that you get a better view - but not when you are all driving the same thing - ??? - lol 😂.
Dont confuse a SUV with a full 4wd car/truck/ute.
Most SUVs are not awd. Most are fwd.
The wheelbase of the wagons are longer than the SUV.
The passenger compartment is more normal and seats not so upright. Luggage area larger, longer.
All the wagon car dynamics go out the window. Raising the centre of gravity.
If you drive the same back to back you can tell. Progress, regressed by SUV - compromise. Cost more to buy and run and tyres etc.
And now, LONG TERM studies from around the World - show increased accident rates from the SUV. Easier to get into trouble, harder to get out. More forces on crash. Fatality rates up.
They just dont make any sense.
Hence why they were born in the US.
US market the biggest, so it takes off and imposed on other countries. Ford and GM. Car companies wanting to sell in the US, so have to conform to survive/compete - so the circle is completed, globally. Sad.
At least Subaru has stuck with cross overs and not succumbed to SUV, although the Ascent is the replacement for the Tribeca - which was more a people mover.
I don't know why other manufacturers havent taken on Subaru with awd and wagons, cross overs. There's nothing stopping them.
Ski fields, snow areas, dirt areas, farms, monsoon areas, safety - without needing full 4wd - its a no-brainer.
Volvo, comes about the closest overall, traditionally. Mitsubishi and Nissan, just SUVs. Ford going the same way, at great risk in Europe, where those who grew up with and those who want their, Cortina/Sierra/Mondeo - Fiesta - Escort/Focus vehicles. With high competition, Ford may loose big time in Europe. If you go into a higher price segment, you will loose customers. Opel and Vauxhall already gone to PSA . Chrysler with Fiat - Stellantis.
In Australia, with the Fiesta, Mondeo gone, and soon the Focus, and sports models gone and the Escape, not selling/known, and only relying on the mustang and Ranger - which sell well with some commercials, it maybe not enough. The machE is too expensive for volume. Competition is huge in Australia. Many market analysts have predicted Ford eventually going like Holden. GMSV - has limited range and basically only high end. When looking at Wheels magazine, monthly car figures, which is really very good tables - its ALL Asian and utes. The Aussie ranger being a standout. But ..... even there, Ford US has DRAMATICALLY reduced staff, recently at its Melbourne Advanced Engineering Centre - where the Ranger and Everest were designed. May not get designed again by Melbourne - despite being a success and very well awarded internationally. Go figure ...🤔
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It's to do with those "desirability" world trash ranking surveys, lifestyle, less over populated, laid back, climate, outdoors environment, job prospects, income, standard of living, easier to migrate to compared to many others, away from things, housing, stable government and people and economy - BUT, it also is part of the reason, why we are now one of the most expensive countries, class ridden countries etc. And environmental destruction
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We are all in deep shit here - you just cannot keep your head buried in the sand - some of us really do understand and are acting - if Canada experienced what they experienced, just imagine what we are heading for - now that the 3rd year in a row La Nina has finished, and the beginnings of an El Nino, appear to be coming - from one extreme to the other - and the BIGGEST cause, is NOT being tackled - the complete opposite - we have more GAS and coal projects than ever in Australia and the world, and skyrocketing electricity AND gas and inflation and wages not keeping up and rents skyrocketing and houses not built for this, and you can see the perfect storm coming.
Just announced on the ABC, that 2022, was the second worst, ever, world wide insurance cost of anything ever, anywhere for our Floods and storms. A lot, were the worse that have ever occurred and some reoccurring several times in a row in the same place within as many months: eg Lismore.
Floods still occurring - some simply from river systems flowing from floods MONTHS ago, now only just getting to their end destination or mouth.
WA's Kimberley, just had it's worst ever flood disaster, that was photographed from space.
So many areas now uninsurable or too expensive insurance - leaving people in a catch 22 situation - they can't sell and move, because no one will buy, can't insure. Stay, and can't insure. How do you pay for repairs ?
Again and again.
With COVID 19 and worker and supply problems and people not able to pay rent, so they have to move, and businesses have to close because of no staff.
At the moment, in the far south, pristine NSW coast, with record tourist numbers, businesses have had to close and sell, because of no staff. Seal Rocks, in Central north coast of NSW has asked people to stay away, because infrastructure can't cope.
Beautiful unique country, but all is NOT well - divided country, becoming a class ridden country and displaced. Also cost of food and huge petrol cost makes things VERY hard for country people and farmers.
Some were just only getting over drought, bushfires and mouse plagues.
Australia can be very cruel
We do get alpine fires.
And the east coast of Tasmania can reach 40°c.
Hobart can reach 40 and has also had snow on its beaches.
America is hotter though, at 56°c in Death Valley
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The doors had to have a new, incredibly expensive hinge system developed, so they could open narrowly - Hubnut review explains.
Wish we had got this and more French cars in Australia - but so far away, small market, ultra competitive, huge tariffs, local content laws, emission laws, hard to establish a dealer network and suited for Australian conditions, compliance, exchange rate, right hand drive etc.
There was also the Renault Vel Satis.
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Yep, Death Valley is correct.
Probably part of it, is because it is below sea level.
Avalon Airport in Melbourne has had 48.9°c.
Same with Penrith in Western Sydney.
In recent times.
I always thought Marble Bar was Australia's hottest place at 53°c ?
The problem is, over time, someone or some entity keeps stating another figure - it's hard to know who is correct.
Onslow in WA, was suppose to have broken the record only last year, or the year before, but seriously, if Melbourne has had the above figure, then surely the highest, should be considerably higher than that - as the B. O. M. doesn't show a recording spot in a large area of WA, SA and the NT.
Plus, recordings are relatively young.
I've met people from SA, who swear they have experienced above 50°c days in their state
So I have always wondered ....??
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There is a lot of truth in this - and it appears to be a common thread : it is not easy to find American food products on Australian supermarket shelves. If it is not Australian, it is usually, Asian, European, Kiwi or even South American.
The latest boom food thing in Australia, from the US is Hershey's products and others - junk food
I have tried some, and seriously, it is overrated.
This is backed up by many reaction videos, of people comparing junk food from around the world to US junk food.
And again, when Americans do try food overseas, that is also available in their own country, and they say it tastes different and better, that's because of the different, enforced, inspected, ingredients and true ingredients that make it up.
The classic one was, the American lady that last year, bought a common, mass produced brand, loaf of bread in a common supermarket and was totally astonished by the taste and quality.
Same with our Cadbury chocolate and McDonald's.
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Remember, its the old 4 cylinder engine, that go the distance, not the sixes. Though the Porsche developed fives, are turning up big kms. Their durability, reliability, practicality and affordability, compared to other European cars, gave them the nick name, here in Australia of The Swedish Holden. Biggest selling European in Australia for decades. They last - which is even more remarkable, when its home country has the complete opposite of environment to Australia 👍
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Have driven it many times
In 1984, when my dad got a new Ford XF Fairmont, we travelled to there and stayed at Port Campbell.
On my "p" s
Drove by myself early morning outside of town near 12 Apostles and came across a giant snow white sea eagle sitting on the boundary farm side fence. She/he, didn't move untill I walked over to it.
Back at the motel was a motoring journalist group, testing the new to Australia, Citroen BX. One of Australia's most iconic car release roads: others - snowy mountains hwy, Mt Hotham, Bells line, the Putty way, the waterfalls way,
The great ocean road is only a fraction of the Victorian coast line, to the west of Melbourne.
As it fronts the Great Southern Ocean / Bass Strait, it can be very cold and extremely windy. Bells beach is one of the rounds of the surf carnivals. Music festivals.
The Otways - mountain range along the road. Unfortunately, very congested now with tourists.
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Yeah, a child visiting I think with family, in Bendigo, an inland Victorian regional town, famous for the gold rush and still mining it, accidentally tripped or something like that, on a rock sticking out on a path near the city centre near the Deborah gold mine ?
She picked it up and it was a large nugget - this was relatively recent - can't remember the full story.
Also a boy from Sydney was holidaying with his family along the Great Ocean Road, and photographing the Twelve apostles, when just at that time, the London bridge, collapsed in front of him.
Pure luck
His photo was the only capture of it happening.
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Tornadoes, appear to be more visible now, in recent years.
Bathurst, Armidale, Dubbo, Brisbane, Perth, Kurnell in Sydney.
There is a great video on youtube of two young tradies - hilarious - filming from their ute, a large twister as it comes straight at them, near Rutherglen in North East Victoria about 2012. Living nearby, with x3 touching down in that area on the same day - i took a day trip to Yarrawonga to see the aftermath, as i have never seen one before. ( we get many coastal waterspouts ). Our giant Murray River Red Gums, were sheared off, half way up their trunks, on either side of the road. Caravan Park at back of lake, flattened. The lake no longer had visual of its water, just covered in debris and logs/branches. Ammunition factory at Mulwala, so serious.
Lake had to be emptied, to clear. Main recreational water sports lake on the Murray River. Albury - Wodonga has had two " microbursts " that left a narrow band of destruction through the towns. When one reached Lake Hume, it became a water spout, visible and crossed the lake to the other side and damaged some new houses being built. Two young guys on the western shore, among some gum Forrest and pines, had trees falling all around them, but weren't hurt. If you pay subscribe you can see articles in The Border Mail.
With Antarctica supplying Australia's snow and tropical heat from the North, its a wonder that we don't have the same or similar system to you guys ?
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So, complicated to explain Australia's temps in various places.
Avalon Airport in Melbourne, on the west side of the bay, hit 48.9°c, way back in the 2000's.
If you look at the current national weather forecast map of maximum temps - on the eastern seaboard, you will notice that the highest temps, are occurring the further south you go, rather than the other way - this occurs because of general air flow from WA to the east.
With all that desert in between, building up the heat.
And if it is slow moving, it makes it hotter
It only requires a northerly to come down from the tropics, common, to then push that air down into the south east corner of Australia
The great dividing range then acts as a barrier, HOLDING or POOLING that air in the one area, days and sometimes weeks on end - hence the extended heatwaves and higher temps. So Melbourne can be slightly hotter in the summer, in the day time, consistently than Sydney
Usually a drier heat.
In the CBD, there is no relief at night as the concrete jungle radiates the day times absorbed heat back out at night.
This however, can be good in winter
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You could call Lancia, the rally kings.
Malcolm Fraser, retired prime minister of Australia has a collection of them.
The little Renault 5 - front engine, front drive - taken out and a douvrin V6 , ( from delorean ), put in mid engine, rear drive, hence the wide rear track, and the cooling ducts to the engine. So cool
The ID, DS Citroēn - the goddess, is classic.
Can easily win the title of most incredible car in history. Many of it's hydraulic powered systems, are standard for today. I think it was the first front wheel drive car to cross the Sahara desert?
Height adjustable suspension. Can drive on 3 wheels. Has been in many rallies. Turning headlights. Self leveling. Self centering steering.
Jay Leno YouTube video. and the Lancias. They should have used one in the top gear African trip. Just made for such conditions. Way ahead of it's time. Stunned the Paris ? motor show in the " 50's "
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@IWrocker This is the New 300 series land cruiser. There are x3 land cruisers. The original, which today is known as the 70 series, that you did a video on. Simple but effective. Your commentators, however, did point out it's flaws. It is very expensive and probably overpriced but has the best resale. And will last . I think they were first used here in Australia on the world's biggest engineering project at the time, called the: Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric scheme.
A series of many man made dams, lakes, power stations and pumps throughout the NSW Snowy Mountains area. Some of the tunnels connecting them are actually above ground and look spectacular - big enough to drive a double decker bus through. One power station is underground with bus tours down into it. Snowy Hydro 2, is currently underway, but with major problems. Big Horizontal Drilling Machine, had the ground above it collapse on it. The original Nissan Patrol was probably also on that project, along with the original Land Rover. This is how they became so popular in Australia.
The second Land cruiser is the everyday family wagon - the 300 series. Like the comment I replied to, my brother needed to replace his 200 series land cruiser with over 200,000 to 300,000 kms on it. Still looked and felt new. His second one. Bought from new and privately owned. Has the 4.5 litre, inline petrol six. Uses it to tow his speed boat, with 350 chev inboard on it, on rivers and lakes around Sydney, and even once on the harbour and out to the heads, onto the Pacific Ocean. Only on a very calm day - lol
There is a Lexus version of this model and also of the Prado - the other, Land cruiser, which is the youngest of the three, a bit smaller than the land cruiser 300 and a new model is coming soon. Many who have the 300 size, have had to go down to the Prado, because of cost. Australia, despite it's small population, is the biggest market in the world for them. Due to our favourable export dollar and experience and skill, I don't know why they don't make them here. !!??
They are everywhere, once you get into that 85% of Australia that is regarded as arid and for mining and dealership network.
They say, that if you want to go outback, with a Toyota or a Landrover, you can, but if you want to come back, take the Toyota. Lol 😂
We have had the F150 for many decades in various forms. Probably made here. They were our police paddy wagons and ambulances and tow trucks etc. For a long time. Not now. We did get the Bronco. In it's awesome colors. Still some around. Now the F150 has returned to dealers. Starting to see them around. As an American, your eyes would water, at the price we pay. Even taking into account, exchange rate and higher income etc. Yet, there is still many to see, particularly the RAM. It alone, has to have $20,000 dollars, put into it, just to convert it to right hand drive - which is done in QLD. They are everywhere.
This is why Chrysler has left, with only RAM and Jeep left.
There is no equivalent 300 SRT, police cars, when they finally retire them.
But, anyhow - my brother couldn't afford the new land cruiser and the Prado was too small . Plus because of demand, COVID-19 and the Ad blue supply and the micro chip supply ( Taiwan !? ) and year long wait, he had to buy the Nissan Patrol. Available and cheaper. Has the 5.6 litre petrol V8. Knows it will cost fuel . His 25 year old + Land Cruiser GXL 40th Anniversary Limited Edition, was suddenly very valuable. So a good deal. He too, could have, after picking up his Patrol, sold it immediately for a very good profit.
But he likes it . Current comparisons between the land cruiser and patrol show that, despite the patrol being older, it is still competitive and better at towing. The next patrol should be very good . May have the option of a PHEV Range Extender Nissan engine. You may want to look at an older Patrol version with the big 4.8 litre petrol straight six, sold here. Was the biggest 6 in Australia at the time. Very popular and looks great. Chunky. Better rear differential system to the land cruiser. Still everywhere here.
Wasteland Firebird had you on his channel and you both seem to have the same interest in Aussie cars. His videos are epic.
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