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Bought another one in May this year. Same Toyota dealership. Same sales lady. Easy
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Must have been because of your mojo..............
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An interesting point I’m hearing recently is that buyers now saying that Hilux and Prado are really living in the past and testing buyers patience with older interiors. Ranger and Everest newer and fresher vehicles are hitting their marks and winning strong sales. Quote:
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more equity on $70,000 and $80,000 vehicles would see a marked difference in service to customers. Oh and if you have a warranty issue and would prefer to deal with someone at a warehouse, then good luck with that….. |
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even aware of problems that occurred with a Focus sold eight years ago. As bad of a problem as the powershyte was, the saving grace was that the Focus wasn’t all that popular, I can claim saving at least six buyers by convincing them to buy a Mazda 3 instead. |
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So I posted up evidence of a very prominent case with Ford Australia, with the highest fine ever handed down by the ACCC as well as pointing out their dealership network being deliberately difficult to deal with for warranty issues. What they did was the oldest trick in the book, you just make the process so onerous/difficult that people give up. |
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On the topic of fires I wonder if they Luton airport fire cause will ever be released to the public.
They were trying really hard to make sure everyone knew it was a diesel vehicle even though they also said they had no information about the fire at that time. |
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I too was interested to read in the troubles that Ford US are having in selling EV. But it is not only Ford having difficulties. Volkswagen in Europe are in serious trouble with their EV sales. GM are “moderating” their plan for new EV models, and even Mercedes has noted that the EV market is 'brutal'.
In one way, the surplus of EV can be viewed as a good thing. It will focus the minds of the car industry to more innovation to reduce the costs of EV production. To the EV fanbois (and I include myself in this grouping), it will be a cautionary note that not everyone shares their love of shiny, new, expensive toys. As a first pass, the “EV early adopters” market is a lot smaller than first thought in this price bracket. For ICE proponents, there is little comfort in this either. If (at the time of writing) the issues in the Middle East conflagrate into a regional war, the price of liquid fuels will go into the stratosphere. Resulting in a renewed rush of EV sales. As I have said a number of times before … the transition from one technology to another is often a long, windy, bumpy road. For example, take the now ubiquitous mobile phone. They were first introduced in Australia in 1981. It took 10 years to have 1% penetration into the market. It took a further 30 years for the population usage of mobile phones to reach 50% (noting that sources vary on when this occurred). But still, even 50 years later mobile phone usage is just over 80%. Ditto the conversion of railway from steam engines to diesel. It took about 45 years from the introduction of the first diesel train until the last steam engine in Australia was phased out. The great news in all of this is that various manufacturers are trying varying approaches; EV, PHEV, ICE and green hydrogen. The automobile is not dead yet. (If The Greens have their way, we will be living in little communities, walking everywhere, and catching public transport.) |
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I'll continue driving my ICE vehicles when they are needed but whats wrong with riding a bike, using public transport and walking. It's not like we have to justify the cost of rego. (or do we) EV's are great but they still don't address to biggest problems in cities, gridlock and congestion. If anything users will probably use them more to justify the cost of ownership. Personal transport has its place but maybe we could all think a little harder about how often we need to use it and for what reason. For every person you see walking, riding a bike, or sitting on a bus/train is one less single occupant car on the road, freeing up space for others who have to drive. ![]()
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Melbourne's western suburbs lack rail infrastructure and then they think buses every half an hour that turn up late all the time and go down the congested western freeway are an adequate substitute. If I want to go to the city my closest train station is 16km away, then the train only stops there once every hour in peak times and once every second hour in off peak - only takes me 50 minutes door to Melbourne CBD via car. |
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Hmmm a quick timetable search shows during the day a train ex Sunbury every forty minutes and just a few km south a train every 20 mins from Watergardens
So if we say 15 min drive then 44 min from Sunbury to Melb Central is a little over an hour. Compared to 50 min by car If there’s no incidents accidents or motorway congestion And please tell where do you park said car in Melb cbd and at what cost? To my mind car to Sunbury train to City is correct option as it saves racking up another 100 km or so on the speedo eliminates fuel cost and cuts out a potentially high parking cost If more convenient frequent train times are an issue drive to Watergardens Please explain |
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Jeepers creepers allow 25 min to drive to Sunbury add train 44 equals 1 hour 9 min vs 50 in the car
What’s 20 minutes extra ? |
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The north western corridor of Melbourne doesn't have the congestion that the west and south eastern suburbs do, if anything it only jams out near Melbourne Airport outbound in peak times and that's it It's $22 to park at Crown Casino, or 'free' if you spend money on the tables or go to a restaurant with their membership program, Or $2.90 if you park on street parking and $489 to get your car out of impound when it gets towed because it's a clearance zone between 4-6PM ![]() You save 20 minutes on the best possible run by driving compared to the train and that's assuming it doesn't sit outside southern cross and wait for 15 minutes like usual because of something with the other trains causing delays. If I drive to Watergardens to get the train there it's 50km, it's 60km to Melbourne CBD. Long story short rail transport sucks unless you have a train connection in your suburb, it's not worth driving 15-30-50km to a train station you might as well as just drive into the city. Same as the longer tram routes, last time I took a tram it took 1 hour 45 minutes to go from Elizabeth Street in Melbourne CBD to Matthews Avenue Airport West, a grand total of 15km. Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 01-11-2023 at 01:34 PM. |
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Lol -I would drive to Sunbury station and catch the train to avoid paying $22 or $489!
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Of course, all of this bad action by one manufacturer should not give shade to a certain manufacturer that drops off your vehicle at a warehouse and tells you to call someone else about any warranty problems…. |
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Had Ford done the right thing and moved DSG owners into these vehicles, a lot of the heat would have gone out of the issue but no, Ford decided to stonewall people because their CEO was a giant douche and wouldn’t admit it was his fault for pressing development team to get DSG to market before ready… |
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I have nothing against Public Transport and will begin to use it once there are no Public on it....
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1.5 engine….. Sadly lots of issues with that engine Luckily I moved mine on at 129000 kms Ford replaced a lot of engines due to a design fault |
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I've used Sydney's train network significantly more than Melbourne's, because its actually good - the frequency of services is way more and it goes to places you might actually want to go. I went from Kings Cross to Cabramatta which was 30+ stops and it only cost $2.79 off peak. $22 vs the massive **** around to get the train to the city, $22 any day of the week. Go take the train from Melbourne Airport next time you come here and let me know how you go ![]() Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 01-11-2023 at 08:55 PM. |
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I think I ll be waiting a long time for a train from Tullamarine airport
It’s the big GC built double decker Sky bus which drops you at Southern Cross Glad to help you Franco! |
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Though a public transport aficionado like yourself would know you can get the 901 bus from Melbourne Airport to Broadmeadows train station and train into Melbourne CBD for about $9 total rather than Skybus at $25 ![]() |
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Sky is Kenetic who operate our buses on the Gc and all over Aus and Nz
The 901 eh! I ll check that out. |
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