Saturday, Apr 05, 2014 at 22:49
Yet another post from slow one that is arguing for the sake of it and makes no contribution to the discussion at all.
It is plain to anybody with a jot of sence that I was not recommending that an 18 nor 20 speed box was installed..but making a point that an 8 speed box was not unreasonable.
Either slow one has no abilty for comprehension or he is making obtuse arguments purely for the sake of it.
As for doom and gloom with any new vehicle...again an obtuse and rediculous statement.
There have always been periods of time when there have been problems with the changeovers of technology....times when it is wise to consider the problems and chose carefully or wait a year or two for the problems to be sorted out.
When the first lot of emmission controlls came into Australia...many of the cars offered suffered badly, some lost horespower and got worse fuel consumption ( a crop of absolute dogs) a model or two later and some of those manufactuers where making what many argue where the best cars of their type ever made
There are known issues with common rail diesel and fuel contaminatoin...very real issues that make diesel a far less attractive proposition...while the
well proven fuel injected variable valve timimg petrol motors in general seem to be very reliable, powerfull and fuel efficient and in my view a more attractive proposition AT THIS TIME , especially considering diesel is now considerably dearer than petrol where in the past it was considerably cheaper.
We have a new generation of automatic transmissions comming thru.....some of them seem to be great to drive and reliable where others are copping plenty of
well deserved critisim.
I dislike automatic transmissions..always have...automatics have always been more expensive to own, service and repair than the contemporay manual boxes...particularly for the carefull driver.
As for what I would buy.
Yes I would buy a current model hilux, but not in diesel, I would buy a BT50 again in petrol but I would cheerfully pay extra to get it with a Mazda badge on it rather then the curse of a ford badge.
If I realy had to but a common rail diesel I would buy the Isuzu, because they are predominantly a diesel engine engine manufacturer and they are not having the disproportunate problems that toyota and others are having with their common rail injectors.
Its not all doom and gloom...but there are very good reasons to stay away from certain vehicles.
cheers
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