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My last 3 cars. 3.5 litre V6 Rodeo with tradsman style canopy, ladder rackes, etc. 17.5 litres / 100 average. 3 litre 4 cylinder diesel rodeo same as above 10.5 litres / 100 average. BT50 styleside ute, mainly used for commuting. 9.2 litres / 100 averaged over 80,000K Hello there, I am so excited I found your site, I really found you by error, while I was researching on google for Wrecked Car , Anyhow I am here now and would just like to say kudos for a fantastic post and a all round thrilling blog (I also love the theme/design), I don’t have time to go through it all at the moment but I have saved it and also included your RSS feeds. Damaged Car

With the strong Aussie dollar your regular Japanese and Australian car buyers have ventured into the European new car showrooms boosting European carmakers share of the market. In the next few years these European Marques will begin to come out of their warranty period and the horror stories will surface about the extreme high price of parts and repairs. The European car sales will dramatically decline as there new customers they worked so hard to attract scurry back to the safety of the much cheaper to maintain and repair Japan and Australian cars. Of course Eurpean car makers could stop this by doing what they did to sell there new cars which is meet the market on price for maintenance and repairs. Unless they have learnt there lesson from years ago and make there part prices competitive they will again withdraw from the great summer land because Australian's won't tolerate uncompetitive pricing.  I agree with peter on the foreign car parts issue, they look attractive but when it comes to parts, they are not party. The young rich job holders will buy expensive European cars and pay through their noses for parts and smile but the next time they would buy a Local or a Japanese car preferably a reliable, cheap to maintain Toyota, or Mazda (or Honda, or for small and quick Suzuki{nosier after one year} and not Mitsubishi) Toyota would definitely hold a position in 2012 and all the years to come, given some of us have grown in them, would want them in any shape or size, I strongly believe and suggest people to buy Holdens, because they are Australian cars, parts are friendly and that Commodore on road is definitely a head turner! BMW will sell regardless of we think. China will come up with solutions that will haunt me when I get old, they will catch up and kill KIA, Daewoo, Hyundai etc Toyota will still live If you want to become number one, this is what consumers want: Reliable, dependable strong car to run, cheap to maintain and serve us years and still look nice enough to pass as a decent car to be seen in. Don't Change the looks too often! by the way I love Jeep, American beast!

The USA action with Cuba is an embargo - not a blockade!! Any country other than the USA can do business with Cuba including selling them their new cars. The fact that Cuba has a lot of old cars on the road is attributable to the low average income of those within the Cuban economy. Low income means no disposable income for new car purchases more than anything other factor. The Cuban economy has not kept pace with the world economy and a new car is simply financially out of reach of nearly all. The article doesn't mention that Cubans are incapable of purchasing new vehicles as a result of their economic isolation, only that they tend not to. I don't think you would disagree that one of the knock on effects of the embargo is lower incomes which lead to lots of old school cars.

This is easily my favourite car of all time. Would you recommend it to fleets? Agreed its an excellent car. While the Golf is more of a stereotypical fleet favourite I think the new Polo definitely proves its capability to compete in this sector.