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Date: November 28, 2025 01:26PM
I love dirt roads in the mountains. They're quite a change from the flatlands
where I live.
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Date: November 30, 2025 11:10PM
Dirt roads in mountains are only good if maintained. I've seen them when
they're not. Then there's the dust if you're on foot.
It's a Toyota, so it will get you home again, but extra wide is stupid.
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Date: December 01, 2025 12:44PM
Toyotas are legendary even in the U.S. but here diesel engines are only in
heavy duty trucks. The diesel is what kept that tortured pickup alive. We can't
get the 70 series in the U.S., let alone a diesel 70 series, but they are lusted
after by many yanks including myself. A 76 or 78 diesel would be just the thing.
As it is, I'll stick to the lighter trails with my old Subaru Outback - wagons
are my lifelong mojo.
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Date: December 02, 2025 12:45AM
I remember that photo. I'm glad you see the world. That you explore as a
friend puts it. The vegetation is different and possibly the rocks too, but
I've been places here like that.
You can't get the 70 series??? Australians drive those until they rust. If
it's surface rust they still drive them.
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Date: December 02, 2025 09:38AM
Yes, the U.S. is 70 series deprived. Strong and simple has been beaten out by
prone to failure and complex in the market here. I suspect it may hay something
to do with government vehicle safety and emissions standards, not that those
things are necessarily wrong, but to bring a vehicle up to the standards can add
substantially to the cost.
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Date: December 03, 2025 12:27PM
On my home turf
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Date: December 03, 2025 12:28PM
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Date: December 03, 2025 12:32PM
Home turf
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Date: December 08, 2025 03:44AM
I hope you get the 70 Series. Really. People drive those off the bitumen,
onto the dirt, onto the paddock, for over 40 years and they just keep running.
The only time I've ever known one to fail was when its owner consistently
ignored a rock as a dirt road took a 70
o upturn after a
60
o down slope. He just consistently hit it. The mount for the
suspension on that front side broke. It got itself into town, was repaired, and
30 years later that dual cab is still running - he gave it to his son.
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Date: December 08, 2025 01:08PM
When I was a boy, my family had a couple of these. My dad worked for the
company that built them, International Harvester. They were simple and tough,
similar to the 70 series.
My first daily driver was identical to this that I bought slightly used in 1977,
the final version of the same model that was discontinued in 1975.
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Date: December 11, 2025 11:19PM
Never heard of them. If you really want tough, and they haven't been around
long enough to prove themselves, but on paper they are, the British Ineos range.
The Grenadier is made to cross continents without regard to roads. You get
what you pay for and it's priced accordingly. I've only seen two on the road.
One lives in a 100km stretch South By South West of here, the other was towing a
caravan last week. If that older couple only ever take it where a caravan can
go, they've bought an heirloom.
What's gone wrong with most modern cars is electronic 'features' that are
flaws.
Land Rover is trying to claw back its reputation, but we'll see:
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Date: December 12, 2025 04:31PM
Electronics are definitely the bane of modern autos, that's why I'll drive my
old Outback until one of us gives out. Even it relies on electronics more than
is healthy as I found out when my alternator, a rebuilt replacement only four
years old, died and left me stranded 15km from a paved road in the mountains in
2021. Speedometer, tachometer, transmission....practically everything is
electronically controlled and began malfunctioning before the car completely
died.
I've heard of the Grenadier but I'm always leery of new models, especially those
as rare and "exclusive" as this. Getting them serviced and repaired
can be a challenge due to lack of qualified mechanics and limited parts
availability.
The later models of International Harvester trucks produced down under looked
like this, very different from their U.S. cousins, and they didn't produce the
truck based Travelall Wagons like my family and I had, just trucks.
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Date: December 12, 2025 11:51PM
Ah ha! I have seen those. Or what's left of them.
The cost of a cork gasket for a Range Rover woke me up to the pitfalls, but I
don't think that's the case in the long run with Ineos. In the early days, yes,
but half of Australians are the beneficiaries of family companies and trusts.
The incomes are often quite small, but add the compulsory pension funds (super
funds we call them) maturing now, and this morning I saw the second elderly man
refuse small change from a cafe, twice I've seen cars left running in the street
whilst the owner is inside, one at a family meeting, the other chatting whilst
collecting her child from after school care, and the time is ripe for something
that fits our national ethos (that social engineers in political parties want to
change) of things that last.
Ideas direct events, events affect people. The underlying idea we're both
agreeing with is that economic doctrines are not sovereign over nations.
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Date: December 13, 2025 11:05AM
"Ideas direct events, events affect people. "
"Chance makes a plaything of a man's life." Seneca
"The best laid plans of mice and men can often go awry." Robert Burns
