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UnfortunateDoorHinge

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  • Love the Jimny, yeah sometimes you get to ruts and think "did a Sherman tank just drive through here?"

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  • I've heard about the y62 getting better economy than the 200 series LC a few times now in some scenarios. Shows you how far petrols have come and the improvements in autos.

    The new 250 I can't rap my head around it. You would really have to not like the V6 Everest, and the 150 was a fantastic platform from stock for most people.

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  • Not gonna deny, but people often misrepresent SUVs. Take away the full-sized Land Cruisers, they are almost always more fuel efficient, much more reliable and easier to drive.

    My EF Ford falcon when I was on my Ps was 5m long, had no ABS, no airbags and had a 4L engine that averaged 16-18L/100km around town. My mother in law's new RAV4 has an engine half the size, hybrid, and gets 5L/100km. It has back up cameras, and sensors all round.

    As for duel cabs and wannabe overlanders, yes, I hate them as much as the next person. They are truly a master of none and don't even fit in the garage. Toyota's like "fuck it let's charge $100k for something we designed in the 80s", and boomers flock to it like flies to shit. I've driven one which was so heavy and full of mods it needed it's Gross Vehicle Mass rating upgraded (costs about $5k), thus having heavy rock hard suspension. It drove as if it had no suspension and was an absolute slug.

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  • It's expensive to develop a car in general because of ever increasing safety and tech requirements. It's probably $10k of safety equipment per car. That's part of the reason why the Yaris is $30k right now. The days of mass producing a small car on razor thin margins is incredibly risky and offers little reward.

    The other thing is a change in consumer demand. People will happily fork out more for larger vehicles, and some will fork out tonnes for off-road based cars. These can offer very healthy margins.

    There's is also cleaver marketing, in that in large parts of Australia, you "must" have a big 4wd. I have driven my Suzuki all around Australia can safely say you don't need a 4wd unless you plan on going off-road.

  • Labor’s landslide victory obscures a disturbing trend for the major parties

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  • 1.6m people voted for the Greens first preference this election, more than the all the Nats and LNP (Qld) combined. That's the reality of concentrations of demographics in various areas.

    It's not all doom and gloom, tseat of Ryan is a good example of a competitive minor party taking advantage of 2nd place to win. The Greens don't need to get the most preferences necessarily, just more than labor. If the coalition gets 35% first preference, and Labor have 28%, they don't need 35, they need 28. Labor's second preferences get distributed ideally to the Greens and hopefully, they overtake the liberals in a 2pp. Didn't work for Adam Bandt, but I think we all got caught surprised at just how bad the Liberals did.

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  • I think what the media and Gina get confused with Trump is that sure he's right wing, but he portrays himself as an outsider and anti establishment. He says "the system is rigged", and calls out the hypocrisy of career politicians who take the status quo for granted. That really gets traction with disenfranchised people.

    I would say though that Trump is the exception to the norm. Candidates typically don't win through campaigning for austerity, and they don't win through surrounding themselves with smooth brained billionaires. Trump won, but at the same time, the Democrats lost badly. I don't see Albo making that mistake.

  • MP berates informal voters after dud ballot spike in NSW seat

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  • 13 people in the ballot is a bit excessive. Should be less than 10. But hate to say it but that area considered or primarily older and slower folk. A better ballot has 5 or 6 candidates. Stop giving the oldies more opportunities to screw up.

  • In a difficult year being unemployed, I learned what success really means | Sunil Badami

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  • Good luck man. Being in the job seeking grind is soul crushing. People forget how slow, painful and dehumanizing it can be. Silly tests, multiple interviews and referees.

    Remember you are more experienced than you are one day ago. Add this current contract to your resume and continue seeking.

  • Another car maker banned from my life forever

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  • They are brilliant. Those little NPR light rigids are much easier to drive than people realise. Available with an automated manual, good turning circle and great visibility. Sure at 100kmh they are pretty loud and bumpy (the little 3L 4cylinder at 2800rpm), but if your in say Melbourne or Sydney, most driving is 80kmh and below. If you do a lot of highway, the 5.2L 4 cylinder goes well with a 6 speed and much more aggressive engine breaking.

  • At this rate, why not.

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  • Give some ear plugs to the whales

  • Another car maker banned from my life forever

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  • They are selling right hand drive converted Yank Tanks in Australia. They are double the price after shipping, rhd conversion and making them compliant. They don't fit on our roads at all and are very restricted with payload and towing because of car licence weight restrictions. To tow more you need a truck license (light rigid).

    They also have no spare parts here in Aus. Plenty of "overlanders" spending $25k to get it towed out of the outback, back to a major city and get parts flown in from Detroit. They are too heavy and wear out components on the dirt. They are built for highway only

    If you want a "truck" in Aus, you buy an Isuzu or Mitsubishi cab-over truck which is like US$35,000 with a tray or box.

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  • Door dasher in Australia here: after about 500 completed orders, I can say I've been tipped once, by this old lady like A$5.

    Tipping is stupid. I'm not incentivised to do anything better. The app would just give everyone crappier orders if everyone tipped.

  • Thumb Rule

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  • But how did he take the picture?

  • Balls

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  • What's an immediate turn off in a person?

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  • I've ended a relationship because the girl drove like an impatient bafoon. If you have a superiority complex about a speed limit in residential areas, I'll sit in the passenger seat railing about how you're such a shit driver. Just drive the speed limit and gently.

  • What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

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  • It's about as annoying as young people abandoning any and all punctuation entirely the amount of people that will write an entire paragraph and not use a single period is obscene if you can't bother to organize your thoughts in the most minimal way I'm going to assume you have nothing of worth to say and just won't read it and frankly, if what you're saying is so boiler plate you don't need punctuation then you really don't have anything to add so probably just shouldn't

  • While the US and EU are putting up barriers to Chinese cars, Australians are buying them at record levels

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  • Plus Tesla's for the Australian market are built in China. Heck, I think some of the new BMWs are built in China now as well.

  • While the US and EU are putting up barriers to Chinese cars, Australians are buying them at record levels

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  • Because the Australian Teslas and Volvos are made in China. It's a Chinese EV. Volvo is owned by a Chinese Company.

  • Nintendo Switch 2 Will Be A "Conservative Hardware Evolution"; To Feature Full Backward Compatibility, 1080p Screen

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  • Don't count your hens I remember when all the consoles had backwards compatibility, until they didn't.