Vehicle Choice

I think $ has a lot to do with it I know a lot of people would upgrade to another 4x4 if they could aford it , I am changing mine as I find I need a longer range and more low end power as I am traveling further afield and tacking on harder tracks as my experiance increasesBorn to drive a 4x4 , not a keyboard
Peter York 4x4

Mrs Al
she who must be obayed & has a kitchen full of sharp knifes was the reason we just purchased our new 3ltd nissan auto. she will not drive a manual around town & rather than have fleet of vehicles it was easer to go auto
regards Bruce

What is it with men doing this kind of thing to us??? I was also 8 mths pregnant when my husband tells me that he is trading in MY CAR! for a jackaroo I went ballistic and told him no but after a lot of grovelling I gave in and said yes. Now he often stirs and says hes selling the roo, but not in my lifetime hes not selling it. I would never go back to a liitle 2wd auto EVER

When we traded in our early 1990s standard diesel 80 series a few years ago the factors were: family of four dictated that it be a wagon, cost dictated it be second hand, reputation and past experiences dictated Toyota and being the only vehicle I wanted something with a bit more go around town so I went for petrol (80 series).

Good to hear you girls are enjoying your 4wds, my missus had never been off road untill we met and now see loves it.

She doesn't drive the Cruiser though !

When my Landcruiser passed away I was caught short with the readies and in a moment of stupidity bought a Ford wagon. Then that had a coronary up in Queensland and I was further into the shiat(quoting Truckster). Standing on the side of the road with only a caravan presented a problem. Cash limited me to the old dear Patrol G60 which we have kept 5 years now and travelled over 100,000km with.
Then fortunes changed but instead of buying a new turbo diesel you-name-it we bought a house. And then SHE said...."I'm not driving THAT, any longer" and an automatic Commodore was acquired. So that's me lot.....now I just dream of what may have been and use up oodles of juice to go where I want to..............:-))) I get there just the same.

Cheers,

Willie
Never a dull moment

After travelling around the west in a four runner, I decided to trade it in on a second hand 80 series Turbo Diesel. "Too BIg Too Noisey Too everything" was all I heard from the Commanding Officer. Now after 350K and trading it in on a new Challenger I have incured the wrath of GOD and HER. How dare I get rid of HER Cruiser it was only just starting to be run in etc etc etc.. now everytime we head off in the the Mr Bitchy,she sulks about it not being the same. I have to keep reminding her that we couldnt afford a new Cruiser. But insistant that this car (Mr Bitchy) will be going as soon as and we WILL be affording a new Cruiser...Thats my lot!!

good evening mr&mrs al.
after the birth of number 4 we had to update from the festiva trio.
we were looking around for a falcon/commodore 6 seater wagon when i had to go to bendigo toyota(how did you find them) and bring a patrol back for a set of tyres.
well after driving it back i though hmm 7 seats and we could visit all them places up the high country we could see eveyone else going to while we just sat around camp(not that its a bad thing).
so i took the cook there the following lunch time and got her to test drive it.
of course she loved it.
they were asking about $13000 for it and thats what we had to spend.
i teed it up with the guys there to take it home for a coup[le of days and weekend to give it a good going over.
tookit home thursday night then looked in the trading post again.
and what was there 1990 rb30 duel fuel$7000.
i thought thats cheap but being in melb it would be sold.
so i phoned the guy anyway and said he had just got home and heaps of calls on mesage machine and was going to call them back in order.
after we spoke a little turned out i went to school with his son.
asked how quick i could be there and told me he would wait before calling other people back.
drove it home that night.
that left a little money for some goodies.—~‘¬‘¥•s’B

Hi, Mrs Al----
That truck in that photo that you so lovely fixed up for me, is my fourth cruiser. The first one in 1983 belonged to my big brother who wanted to change it over so I swapped it for my old Beema. Best thing I ever did. So I guess I'm a cruiser man.
I know I'm biased but have never been let down by them. I prefer manuals and the last 2 have been diesels.Al Symers

Having owned a number of 4wd's over the years and getting supplied with differant ones as work vehicals I bough a Jackaroo turbo diesel from my work.. was so impressed with the 1990's model with that had done over 400,000 klm on a petrol motor when one of the guys left & his 2000 model 3lt turbo diesel came up for sale I bought it! it's easy to drive, light on fuel. runs like a clock & does everything asked of it both on & off the road. you can sit 5 adults in it with comfort & with a load on it still goes like stink up the hills in 5th gear!

Well Mrs Al you got lots of responses. Very light on reasons for buying a four wheel drive but it's been good to read your family details. I find pregnancies so interesting .... it's been a good read sort of like a gossip column!

I bought the 80 series as there's plenty of 'em up here in the NW so I thought that help (or spares) would always be just around the corner. I hate being like everyone else but they're such a great fourby that I really can't see me driving anything else for quite some time yet. For the record I wouldn't touch a 100 series though !