Yes, the other VNs were okay with coloured bumpers and alloys.
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It almost seems quant they still call it the Warringah freeway these days. Most have been rebranded motorways in Brisbane and Sydney at least. I notice when it first opened it was the Warringah Expressway.
I think the only one still called a freeway in Brisbane is a short section of the M5 called the Western Freeway, although even that I’ve seen referred to on maps as the Western Motorway. There’s also still the Riverside Expressway, but everything else is a motorway these days. To the north of Brisbane the Bruce Highway commences at the Pine River bridge and is called a highway, even though it’s signed M1 and is motorway standard for about 200km north past Gympie. The Pacific Highway and South East Freeway south of Brisbane was rebranded Pacific Motorway decades ago.
Friggin Button plan with its UAAIs and whatever Mazda and Ford or Ford and whoever did or something like that…
A Toyota with a pushrod V6 was such an oddity in its line-up when twin cam engines were all the rage in almost every other model back then.
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You want an oddity…the Susuki Jimny. My dad had one like this…
Small POS, noisy to all get out, you could hear it before you could see it, and my brother managed to roll it over in a paddock.
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I have a deep aversion from anything with a Toyota badge and a GM engine. That includes the Lexcen and 1979-83 Corona with the abysmal Starfire engine…
But a GM badged Toyota with a Toyota engine usually wasn’t a bad choice - ie. Apollo (Camry) or Nova (Corolla).
If there’s one near new car that I absolutely hated, it was a 2009 Holden Cruze fleet car with the 1.8L engine. Dog of a car.
In my former workplace we manufactured acrylic car accessories .The Toyota Camry and Holden Apollo ,Toyota Lexcen /Holden Commodore ,from about the mid 90s,the headlight and bonnet protectors were exactly the same shape and size,except one had the Holden logo printed on it and the other one had the Toyota logo.
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Yes, the automatic transmissions that Holden used in the Commodores then were American as well.
Though the body was based on the European Opel Omega.
Both GM products.
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I used to own a 1992 Holden Barina in the 1990s that was really a Suzuki Swift that had a Holden badge.
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And that was a better car than the Opel Corsa based Barina after 1994 IMHO.
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Mmm debatable. The Suzuki’s were rock solid and super economical, but the Opel Corsa’s were super nice to drive with European handling and ride. The paint didn’t last long under the Australian sun though.
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Yes it was as the later model Holden Barina was European manufactured and the indicators were the wrong way around.
Yes, they had good handling but were woefully unpowered and fell to pieces quickly. The later Opel one’s (2001-2005) had decent power, but again fell to pieces.
Police have been forced to shut down a $100,000 fuel giveaway at a Melbourne petrol station after the stunt resulted in traffic mayhem.
The giveaway by a rewards club sparked a frenzy outside a Liberty fuel station in Truganina in the city’s west, with dozens of cars lining up around the block to in a desperate bid to nab a free tank of petrol.
Cars sat bumper-to-bumper on Leakes Road early today after the club’s founder Billy Beasley announced the Good Friday promotion, which was offered to drivers on a first-come, first-served basis.
Some motorists ran out of fuel while waiting in line, with one driver resorting to pushing his car toward the pumps.
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What fuel do the Ford Rangers et al of the world take? Are they exclusively diesel?
I reckon it might be time to restrict access to the types of vehicles people have access to. Restrict those big utes to ABN holders who actually do need them for work and block weekend warriors from buying them
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Yes, almost all of those jacked up utes are diesel.
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Not surprising. For those who genuinely need them, I kind of feel for them. For the rest, karma’s a bitch. 
Those jacked up utes need to be severely restricted as to who can get them. Yes, let tradies who need them get them, but the office managers can get stuffed.
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Tradies are the worst drivers though, they tailgate, speed, don’t indicate etc. I don’t feel safe in my car when I see one right in my rear view mirror.
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