End of the line for Holden

[Dimis]

Originally Posted by Aussie Mike

I don't have a problem with the Hilux not changing. If the design works why change it? Otherwise it's just change for change sake. A marketing scam to make people buy the fancy new model when in reality the old one was just as good for it's intended purpose.

This is one of the things thing that annoys me about the car industry.......

.............That means you need to drive about a million KM before you are in front of the $30K dropped in the change over. Given the average punter seems to reckons a car is worn out by 100,000KM. Well....

End of rant.

With GOLD like that, I wish you had a bigger soap box!

Well said kind Sir.


PS: Thanks for the PM & Congrats.

[Towmaster]

Originally Posted by Dimis

With GOLD like that, I wish you had a bigger soap box!

Well said kind Sir.


PS: Thanks for the PM & Congrats.

Then when the engine wears out you just slot in a 6 litre V8....
Maybe there won't be too many more of them in the future either..

[Aussie Mike]

Originally Posted by Towmaster

Then when the engine wears out you just slot in a 6 litre V8....
Maybe there won't be too many more of them in the future either..

Might be a 429HP 5.0L Hyundai V8

You don't hear much about people rebuilding the engine in their car these days. Fitting a reconditioned engine at some point was a pretty normal and expected thing.

I've always thought for cars it's better to maintain and rebuild existing cars than make new ones. They go on about the new cars making less pollution and being better for the environment but that's bullsh!t too. No one considers the pollution created in making all the materials and manufacturing the car. China is pouring out tons of greenhouse gasses making the steel and plastics that go into manufacturing new cars. then there's the impact of digging the stuff out of the ground and processing it. All so greenie Joe public can drive along in his hybrid with a smug smile on his face as he imagines how he's saving the rain forest and the orangutans and stuff. All the while completely oblivious to what they are doing to the environment digging all the nasty chemicals out of the ground to make the bloody thing.

The greener option is keeping an old car tuned and running cleanly or converting it to an alternative fuel.

[guye]

Originally Posted by Aussie Mike

...I've always thought for cars it's better to maintain and rebuild existing cars than make new ones. ...

Totally agree Mike.

I'm in software. My young software developers are forever telling me it would be faster to rewrite code from scratch than just fix it. I've learnt (and can prove) that is complete cr@p! (They are actually too lazy to try and get their head around someone else's design.)

Just sayin' i can see the parallels here.