Sold after 11 months of ownership. My final post and final thoughts.

[Max]

And you’ve brainwashed my youngest daughter with Bluey and so she’s doing the exact same thing. Plus she started calling me “Toots” like a gangster from the 40’s. None of this is helping.

Wait for the Aussie accent...
Don't forget you gave us the Muppets and there are still people sounding like Kermit

 

[CrazyOldMan]

Wait for the Aussie accent...
Don't forget you gave us the Muppets and there are still people sounding like Kermit

Oh it’s fully on - I don’t even know the child

 

[CrazyOldMan]

I love all of the American parents complaining their kids are sprouting new words and talking in strange accents etc etc, like that hasn’t been happening to us in Australia since the 1960’s when we got the telly.

You poor darlings.

I also love it how Tazzie can crack a word out like Bonza and you guys still think that’s part of our current vocabulary.

Strewth, blimey and wowza that’s bonza diggeer.

I do love Bluey though, a much finer export than either the Wiggles or Steve Irwin I reckon.

Oh, and here’s one of our City Cats (dogs) dressed up as Bluey and Bingo running along the Brisbane River. We took my granddaughter on a Bluey ride last weekend.

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Don’t you all dress like Crocodile Dundee and say “crikey” first thing in the morning before you crack out the didgeridoo? I might have been misinformed.

 

[MattA]

The didge is only here to beat off the big Roos walking down the street and the drop bears in the bush
Bonus is the didge also sounds undoubtably Australian

 

[Max]

Oh it’s fully on - I don’t even know the child

The Furries are here too...I had one...

Sold after 11 months of ownership. My final post and final thoughts.​

What a flee bag...glad to get rid of it...I throw in the collar

 

[Metricshifter]

In Australia some of the highest paid industries is in the mines and tradies get paid extremely well.
Here is a current job for an electrician on a 2:1 FIFO(Fly In Fly Out) roster
The work is 14 days on 10-12 hour a day then 7 days off.
Accomodation, meals etc are all provided on site and are very good quality.
Gyms, pools etc
$6,000 a week is plus 12.5% super minimum plus any other site allowances
This is the type of person who would probably be happy to buy a 70 series Toyota and spend another $100,000 on doing it up.
Probably also own a boat.
They aren't looking for exclusivity or luxury. Probably the opposite.
Hard to compare against the other guys if you have something completely different.
You want the same but better.
Also customers for the Grenadier or more likely the Quartermaster Cab Chassis

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My theory is that Aussie slang is just one big conspiracy- you guys randomly make stuff up and pretend to understand one another, just to mess with our heads.

wait til they start really spruiking like some old sook poli.

 

[TJ D]

Good god, what's happened to the screen layout? Am I the only one for whom the page is displaying like it's from 1996 with a bad connection?

 

[CrazyOldMan]

wait til they start really spruiking like some old sook poli.

What?!!! You just broke my brain

 

[Tazzieman]

Aussie vocab = Take any English word, delete the second half of it and add a y to the end.

Spot on, Ay

 

[homeyclaus]

Good god, what's happened to the screen layout? Am I the only one for whom the page is displaying like it's from 1996 with a bad connection?

Looks like the host of the bulletin board software had issues. Seems fixed now.

 

[Tazzieman]

Looks like the host of the bulletin board software had issues. Seems fixed now.

But the cupholders are still too small!

 

[homeyclaus]

But the cupholders are still too small!

And here I thought that this something only Americans care about. But 'tis true, no "normal" can of Fosters or Molson will fit there.

 

[Tazzieman]

And here I thought that this something only Americans care about. But 'tis true, no "normal" can of Fosters or Molson will fit there.

I have never seen an Australian drinking Fosters, and I've lived here 54 years

 

[Krabby]

I have never seen an Australian drinking Fosters, and I've lived here 54 years

But it's Australian for Beer! (according to the old adverts )

 

[CrazyOldMan]

But it's Australian for Beer! (according to the old adverts )

Probably a bit like Corona and “La Cerveza mas fina” - what they really mean is “here, drink some piss water, gringo.” It’s an “export product.”

 

[Tazzieman]

Probably a bit like Corona and “La Cerveza mas fina” - what they really mean is “here, drink some piss water, gringo.” It’s an “export product.”

Australians, esp young ones, drink Corona. They have baby tastes , and are very susceptible to marketing.
Gnat's piss is how my late father would have described it!

 

[ADVAW8S]

Australians, esp young ones, drink Corona. They have baby tastes , and are very susceptible to marketing.
Gnat's piss is how my late father would have described it!

Maybe it's because it takes less Corona than Foster to get drunk. There is more alcohol in Corona than Foster. Now if you are drinking Foster made for America, you would get more ABV by full 1% than I'm Australia.

 

[homeyclaus]

Probably a bit like Corona and “La Cerveza mas fina” - what they really mean is “here, drink some piss water, gringo.” It’s an “export product.”

Molson Golden is what Canada sells to Americans and tells them it's good.

But I am glad this got some chatter going.

 

[Guardian]

in light of the incredibly numerous reports of catastrophic problems with this machine, I would suggest all of the WORLD ROUND “rigourous” testing was simply staged. Shame on Ineos for seducing us to believe you had a real thing. And shame on us for thinking they could build it in FRANCE of all places.

 

[anand]

in light of the incredibly numerous reports of catastrophic problems with this machine, I would suggest all of the WORLD ROUND “rigourous” testing was simply staged. Shame on Ineos for seducing us to believe you had a real thing. And shame on us for thinking they could build it in FRANCE of all places.

Catastrophic problems???

The vast majority of issues are either end-user-caused (nearly all front drive shaft failures) or trivial (dings/bongs/software issues). The most frequently reported "problem" is probably HVAC related, and at the end of the day, that doesn't leave you stranded anywhere.

The factory (and workers) are the same as when the Smart FourTwo was built there, a vehicle with very good build quality