So... what car do you guys drive when not flying?

[tgh]

P3 = brilliant euro design mixed with Chinese components of questionable longevity overlain with poor electronics = pass

 

[Quickstatus]

poor electronics

Ive heard the UI is very clunky

....

Diesel - its possible to put out a small fire with diesel if the diesel can completely smother the fire.
I still need diesel for the other cars so I particularly like going to the Servo in the Tesla to pump diesel into Jerry cans. Ah the smell of Dino Juice....

EV car carrying 7x20 L containers of diesel?. Safe.....

 

[Cossie]

Interesting observation from a fb page. Rally Finland has always been regarded as the Finish GP.

No wonder drivers love the South Island roads of NZ.

 

[Quickstatus]

5 more year the EVO will qualify for historical plates with $100 rego and ctp

 

[prozac]

Interesting observation from a fb page. Rally Finland has always been regarded as the Finish GP.

No wonder drivers love the South Island roads of NZ.

Used to love watching that on TV, what 25yrs ago? The snow covered roads through the forests were spectacular. Back in the days when Citroen campaigned Xsara and Ford the Sierra (?).

 

[DejaBrew]

Ford the Sierra (?).

I think Ford were running the Mk1 Focus RS against the Xsaras.

 

[prozac]

I think Ford were running the Mk1 Focus RS against the Xsaras.

Yes.

 

[Cossie]

This is a famous bit of in car footage, Petter Solberg/Phil Mills 2004, Ouninpohja stage.

Cars were much closer to standard road cars then.

 

[Cossie]

This is 20 years earlier than Finland, Ari Vatanen and Terry Harryman Manx, Opel Manta 400.

Watch at 1:55 for the "dear god" comment.

 

[prozac]

This is 20 years earlier than Finland, Ari Vatanen and Terry Harryman Manx, Opel Manta 400.

Watch at 1:55 for the "dear god" comment.

And he lost his place for a second. Good navigator.

 

[JohnM]

For anyone who watched the new tourism advertisement and immediately thought what I thought - that it is absolutely stupid:

 

[prozac]

For anyone who watched the new tourism advertisement and immediately thought what I thought - that it is absolutely stupid:

German tourist getting stuck and lost in the outback because "Vell, Ik de 4WD hebben".

 

[TheRealTMA]

For anyone who watched the new tourism advertisement and immediately thought what I thought - that it is absolutely stupid:

Apart from Shrimps on the Barbee, not withstanding WTBHAY, aren't they all?

 

[JohnM]

Apart from Shrimps on the Barbee, not withstanding WTBHAY, aren't they all?

The earlier two were merely inane; this one is inane, but also encourages dangerous behaviour.

 

[docjames]

Just roll the RUC into rego and be done with it. Just scale into the rego and out of the excise over say a decade, to keep revenue static.

 

[jb747]

We're probably going to sell our caravan (Centaur Karavane), and once that goes no need for a tow car. So, that means that the Range Rover Sport will be downsized. The boss's current thinking is a new Golf GTI.

 

[Quickstatus]

Just roll the RUC into rego

The RUC can be calculated from the km reported in the pink slip
For the cars not yet required to do a pink slip, the owners can report it annually when renewing. No way to fake it because if the car was sold, the km would be recorded anyway.

new Golf GTI.

Can I tempt you with the VW ID5 GTX

 

[33kft]

Just roll the RUC into rego and be done with it. Just scale into the rego and out of the excise over say a decade, to keep revenue static.

People get fixated on the user pays aspect of RUC, but generally we're all users. It's the tradies who travel both sides of the city or the trucks and vans delivering our stuff that will pay the cost in the first instance, and us in the second. There's also a large cost in implementing and policing a RUC scheme - it ends up being similar to the case of the ATO - eventually you get a system so complex and costly to police, people start to look for ways to simplify it.

 

[jb747]

Can I tempt you with the VW ID5 GTX

No, not really. Especially for another $10k.

 

[dairyfloss]

No, not really. Especially for another $10k.

And IMHO… so, so ugly. Why must the majority of electric cars look like the vehicular equivalent of a shoe which serves a corrective purpose?!