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Meh.

In my country it is illegal to honk at anyone or anything unless there is some sort of emergency, and honking is required to warn other drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, drunken/unlicensed taxi drivers, and/or drunken/unlicensed bus drivers of the danger. If however, everyone who honked illegally were ticketed by real cops and the fines were collected and not stolen by bogus cops, we could wipe out our national debt in a few days.

Built-in obsolescence.

Six wheels might be kind of useful on something like a Land Cruiser. But on a Jeep, six wheels are only good for what exactly? It does not even look good- in fact, it makes this Jeep look like donkey with a serious birth defect.

Great news, but who did the valve timing?😉

Has to be my V6 Ford Cortina XR6. Bought it new for 7 300 ZAR in 1981, and sold it for 12 000 ZAR in 2005, with less than 60 000km on the clock. Only major repairs were a new starter, an alternator- and several sets of wiper blades. Never even changed the brake pads/shoes. Its fuel consumption was terrible though- hence the low mileage.

There is something wrong with these guys. Something serious.

Banning ICE cars has far less to do with combating climate change than it has to do with wining elections. The green movement is growing by leaps and bounds, so what do governments do? They leverage the growth to win votes without telling people that the infrastructure to replace ICE cars will likely take another 100 years or more to build and install. The saddest part of all of this is that many people still tend to believe what their governments tell them.

@Barry, one can expect anything from the Yanks. They once accidentally dropped a couple of nuclear bombs over Italy, and while they paid for the massive cleanup, they still have not compensated the local tomato farmers for the loss of thousands of acres of tomato vines. If the mountain behind your house does turn out to be contaminated,they will probably either deny that its their fault, or they will bury the mountain and village and then make guys you pay for it. Either way, the Yanks will weasel out of their responsibilities.

Not sure about that- sometimes I feel older than the mountains.

I did not take this picture, but it shows the view over the village of Hartbeespoort as seen from the top of the mountain directly behind my house. I might mention that with an age of 2.4 billion years, this mountain is among the second oldest mountains in the world.

This is my kind of town. Nearest neighbors at least half-mile away. It's very pretty though, and I can only envy all the green that stretches as far as the eye can see. Definitely my kind of environment.

So a fewbie is an expert newbie? Makes perfect sense, that does.

It was worth a try, though.

I've been meaning to ask; what is a "fewbie"?

Yeah, and that makes them good to block people's view in parking lots. Nothing more.

This is just a theory, and leaving @Barrys very valid points about DPF regeneration aside for the moment, I am thinking that the only people who don't like diesels are the ones who have never driven a modern diesel.

It's not about not being OBD II compliant or not. It about the fact that OBD II standards allow several communications protocols, some of which cannot be read by 50-buck scanners. And its not only NIssan Xterras that are affected- almost all manufacturers use at least some proprietary programming (including algorithms and look-up tables) that require scanners that can read all, or most communication protocols because the programming of any given system can be based on one, two, or even three different protocols. NIssan XTerras is just one example of that.

The 2CV was to the French what the VW Beetle was to the Germans. Clear and incontrovertible proof that the leaders of both nations hated the people in their countries enough to give them cars to kill themselves with.

If you see one of these up your ass, you'd better get out of its way. It might catch fire right behind you.

While this SUV is not quite as ugly as some competitors', it is way to shiny for my tastes. In fact, for me it is so glitzy that it looks cheap.Sort of like someone was trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. I think that when it comes to vehicles in this class, the less glitz, glam, and chrome there is, the better. Mind you, some pimps and drug smugglers might disagree with me.

I'll jump in here and say that it looks remarkably like a bloated Jaguar.

Here everyone uses pickups for everything from dune bashing at the coast to farm work everywhere else, including the coastal areas. Nobody here uses SUV:s for anything other than blocking peoples' view in parking lots.

I wonder if this monstrosity is certified to carry flammable material?

This whole Virgin space flight thing is a big crock of s*%t. In fact, these idjits with lots of money to waste won't even leave the atmosphere proper, and all they'll get is the experience of falling at the same rate as the aircraft- i.e., weightlessness for a few seconds. Nonetheless, it is a marginally smaller crock of s*$t than the business of colonising Mars. Nobody of any consequence is really considering it, and the only people who stand to make money out of it are a), the scammers who are offering clueless idiots an "opportunity" to be the first colonisers of the planet, and b), the makers of documentaries about how difficult it would be to live on Mars. SpaceX is planning a manned mission to Mars sometime in the next 15 years or so, but whether that actually happens or not remains to be seen.