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congratulations mate! may you have many miles of enjoyment with it,

i like the colour coded interior trim, its an individual option i havent seen before.

Really ..... really ??? There are sooooooo many shitty little cars on the road with this for rear suspension. Lift off over steer and understeer sh*t boxes. They all claim "5 star" safety ratings because they have Electronic Stability Control to get around bad design. Not saying everything is a race car, but beam axle is the devil.

It's a lot better to have the electronics on... but to have them work OK. I had a mate who took his Hilux back for exactly the reason you said. It was actually dangerous at times, because you simply couldn't go fast, and used up all your concentration trying to keep the thing moving. Being able to alter the settings on the fly would be great!

Still working on the Mrs Think she's starting to warm to the idea. How soon are you looking to move on it?

Red Lamborghini Diablo right now on Blenhiem Road. Sounded so good even at low RPM

With regard to OP - The guy that writes Dog and Lemon is in it to make money. People with no car knowledge buy it and are entertained by the bullsh!t inside and are thus happy. Any reference to actual facts is beside the point. As to the rest of this thread :-) People these days don't need to understand cars or the basics of handling etc. Technology keeps improving and providing features to enable drivers to get from point A to point B with the least amount of hassle or skill. In the old days a driver was more likely to try servicing his\her car as it was simply (sarcasm here) mechanical. People actually joined motor clubs and did associated events - hill climbs etc. As the cars in the day included average handling, weak brakes and slippery tires a driver had to concentrate a little more. Now boy\girl hops in mum's car with it's auto gearbox, power steering, ABS, cruise control, traction control etc etc and just presses the 'Go' pedal or the 'Stop' pedal... Hell the car might even brake for them if they're about to run into the car in front and auto park when they get to the shops!

I like your thinking. People would drive even slower with an even greater fear of driving. Most of New Zealands fleet are old cars so most of our drivers are still driving around in non "aided" mediocre cars with marginal safety levels anyway. It will be another 10 years before the average catches up, most people still think a car from the year 2000 is modern. I am still thank full for stability control and feel safe in the thought most of my loved ones cars are equipped with it.

I think its good news. Been taken out by a drunk driver on HW1 , still remember the screaming from the girls after the impact, having to revive one of them, the dash board exploding as my mates knees when through it despite wearing a seat belt. The mess in the other car with the passenger that wasn't wearing a seatbelt , rib cage broken and barely breathing,The driver with his broken nose realising the carnage that he'd caused. Having to hold back a mate from beating the living daylights out of the driver after we revived his girlfriend. The traffic backed up as far as I could see and the long wait for the ambos . Not sure if this new laws will change much but due to personal circumstance I'm for it.

I'd much rather go for a drive than go for a drink anyway. And when I do want to drink... That's what the gf is for.