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Where else can you get a fully loaded, top of the range dual cab ute (that isn't a bloody HiLux, Triton, BT-50 or Ranger) with a full 5 star ANCAP safety rating for under $40K? Check out the Chinese-built LDV T60 Luxe - runs the same running gear as the Holden Colorado but built in China, not Thailand! https://www.ldvautomotive.com.au/vehicles/ldv-t60-ute-dual-cab/ [ATTACH]50450._xfImport[/ATTACH]

Sat in a GT Mustang at the 2018 Tamworth Country Music Festival - that thing was bloody loud! 6 speed automatic too - sooner have the 6 speed manual over the self-shifter!

That is actually at a nursery in the Port Stephens area of NSW, Australia!

They are so moody they beat me to first place on the moody mammal list!

Not wrong there - I also remember our school run receiving the very first Volvo B7R that our company got..... a bit flasher than the OC1617 but a true mongrel if the linkages between the gear lever at the front and the gearbox weren't lubricated properly. Our driver would try to go from 2nd into 3rd and totally mess everything up by going to 5th! He then had to sort everything out - apart from that issue, the B7R's weren't a bad bus....

Belén - La Rioja 08 by IVECO, on Flickr And here's the Aussie Iveco Powerstar Rally Truck

Toby wins the bikes for Australia but Gerard de Rooy wins the truck section in, wait for it, an Iveco Rally Powerstar (the Aussie bonnetted truck!)... technically, Australia can lay claim to two wins!!! :D

PMSL! Gotta keep up - I can remember a bus we had when I was still a young whippersnapper at school..... a Mercedes-Benz OC1617. 16 tonnes GVM, 170hp and five gears - had to be a good day to get the rotten thing up to 100km/h - you could get it there but only if you had a tail-wind and were travelling downhill. But the bloody thing would be revving it's tits off at that speed as 5th was direct, not overdrive

Guys, guys, guys! Don't forget who owns Vauxhall and Opel (and also Holden!)....... gimme a tissue box if I had to choose one of these cars.... or, better still, gimme Shanks' Pony....

Dogs have owners - cats have staff! I should know - I have one of each..... the blasted cat's a terrorist and the dog ain't much bloody better!

How the hell does this even work??? No Right Turn on top and Right Lane Must Turn Right below..... someone needs a serious ass kickin'!

LSD ALL LANES - take it as you see it! In the context of this photo, LSD stands for Low Sulphur Diesel

Companies who rent trucks out - Avis, Hertz, Budget, Thrifty and the like - have warnings on the dash about the DPF - Hertz has done away with DPF equipped trucks and gone for the SCR only UD Condor range.....

I like your thinking, Geoff - it's the insights of guys like you that allow me to learn about SCR.... Isuzu manages to meet Euro4 and Euro5 with a simple EGR/DPF setup. We have a 2009 FRR500 at work and it's a brilliant truck - yet the guys driving it aren't letting it get hot enough to even attempt to burn the soot out of the particulate filter! A mate of mine brought an ex-Pink Hygiene Services Isuzu NNR200 and had to replace the DPF - pretty lucky he could get out of that cheap - it cost him $3,200 to do.... I have heard of DPF replacement on a Captiva Diesel being upwards of $12,000

They say the Everest (and the first ever SCR 4WD in Australia, the Mazda CX-7 Diesel Sport) can do up to 15000km between AdBlue fills - that's 12 months! But you can always top it up between services by finding a service station which has truck access (and truck diesel pumps).... they always usually have AdBlue there on site at the pump. We have two sites (one BP, the other Caltex) which have that AdBlue availability