I'll try to keep it short.
First surprise was.......the price shown by the media was wrong they told me and who ever else was not correct.
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As you can see the Trendline price is $47,990 I was quoted today $53,199 plus another $2500 for the 18" wheels.
What did we like:- build quality is good, heaps of room, very quite motor, bloody really great brakes, the
hill climb brake control brilliant. Stop at lights etc press the brake harder and you do not need to use the bloody hand brake. The front under body protection under the motor/sump where actually skid plates,
Now the things I did not like:- clutch 1" out it engages,
well Iam not used to that, the gear box, six manual the gates a little to close and not to my liking, hard to find gears at time, the steering a little vague. The turbo lag was terrible, it had as much grunt as my or a little more than my MU (its quite hot hahahaha) but the MU has quicker pick up.
Now I have to admit it did have some go, but you had to make sure you were in the right gear, do not think some of these diesel utes need six gears, (all there for them to achive good fuel economy, the make that is)
To set one up to my liking around $65K, so where to next, have to take a HiLux for a
test. Yep for to say we then took a D.Max for a
test drive (never driven one before) and at around $20K cheaper would buy it, also have driven a Ford
Ranger and like it as
well.
And to think we are only looking at the moment, it is a
mine field out there, honestly how do people decide? told the boss we should just keep the MU (now 16 years old) and buy !!!!!!! a old 911 Porsche hahahahahaha, yes i am losing it.