Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "Velocity" channel.

  1. Glad to see they're at least attempting to resolve the price gouging. What they need to do is strip more of the most blatant dealers of their access to stock
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  2. Toyota has only been making a compact utility for over 6 decades. Ask yourself why it isn't over there.
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  3. That's just standard American greed and corruption. Not the manufacturer's fault.
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  4. or, they could just re-release the hilux to the states. Thats High Lux, not Hee Lix by the way.
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  5. @Jon P L200 Mitsubishi (Triton) is coming out with one this year.
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  6. Pretty sure it matters to the rest of the world, regardless what America does.
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  7.  @chrischris9370  Why would you make the batteries for a Chinese built car in the USA? Why build a more expensive inferior battery and ship it half way across the globe?
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  8.  @djkenny1202  by American standards it is. By the rest of the world standards it is a mid size utility. A Suzuki Mighty Boy is a compact utility to me.
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  9.  @djkenny1202  we had some shocking Daewoo cars here too. My ex bought one new and it was a deathtrap.
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  10.  @keithlea6804  For us the 22R was dumped in the Celica. Celica's in Australia got the same engines as Hiluxes and Coronas.
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  11. Except of course the rest of the world has had these smaller sized "Utility Vehicles" rather than "pick up trucks" for DECADES. The first of them were built in Australia in the 1930's, almost 100 years ago. Almost all of the major manufacturers build them. Toyota, Nissan, Ford, Mazda, Isuzu, General Motors, Renault, Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, as well as Mahindra, LDV, SsangYong, Great Wall etc etc. Imagine thinking that this was a new thing because you couldn't look beyond the borders of the US of A.
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  12.  @RLTtizME  you think Australia is a fascist state? Fought on the side of freedom in 2 world wars? Last I checked, fighting the Nazis and supporting democracy wasn't fascism? Appointing yourself god emperor and attempting to overthrow your country's democratic election through an organized attack on it's centre of government however is NOT democracy.
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  13. I'm just bewildered at where the fascism is in my post? You are without a doubt suffering from an alternative version of reality. Or maybe you're not suffering but revelling in it? Whichever, doesn't faze me in either way.
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  14. Toyota and Nissan NEVER left the compact pickup market, they just left the American market. Ford invented the compact pickup market almost 90 years ago in Australia based on the personal request of a Victorian farmer.
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  15. Why? you think people haven't left Ford for Honda, Mitsubishi, or Hyundai before? The number of US car manufacturers has collapsed over time and so has their market share. Why would utility vehicles be any different? Here in Australia, prices for Japanese brand utes with better reputations than the Ford for toughness and reliability undercut the Ford by around 20%. The newer chinese utes are about 40% cheaper.
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