Car Torque with Matty J Oct 21, 2025

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Car

Subaru STI

The Subaru STI is a sportier version of the Subaru Impreza, designed for better performance and handling. It's known for its powerful engine and ability to drive well in various conditions, making it a favorite among car fans.

Car

Honda Accord

The Honda Accord is a well-known car that many people trust for everyday driving. The 1985 version is one of the earlier models, recognized for being reliable and good on gas.

Term

thermostat

A thermostat helps keep the engine from getting too hot or too cold by controlling the flow of coolant. It's like a temperature controller for the engine.

Term

cooling system

The cooling system keeps the engine from getting too hot. It uses parts like the radiator and thermostat to make sure everything stays at the right temperature.

Term

radiator

A radiator helps cool down the engine by taking the hot coolant and cooling it off before sending it back to the engine. It's important for keeping the engine at the right temperature.

Term

silted up

If a radiator is 'silted up', it means dirt or debris has built up inside, which can stop the coolant from flowing properly and make the engine overheat.

Car

Hyundai Venue

The Hyundai Venue is a small SUV that is easy to drive and park. It has good fuel efficiency and comes with modern features that many people find useful.

Car

Toyota Camry

Term

check engine light

The check engine light is a warning light on your car's dashboard. It means there's something wrong with the engine or the emissions system that needs to be checked.

Car

Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

The Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL is a large, luxury car made by Mercedes-Benz in the 1980s. It's known for being very comfortable and having a powerful engine.

Part

ball joint

A ball joint is a part of the car's suspension that helps the wheels move up and down and turn. It's like a ball-and-socket joint in your body, allowing for movement in different directions.

Part

boot

A boot is a cover that protects important parts of the car from dirt and water. If it gets torn, it can cause problems for the part it covers.

Part

lifter

Lifters help control the engine's valves. If they get stuck, they can cause noise and affect how the engine runs.

Part

rocker

Rocker arms help open and close the engine's valves, which is important for the engine to work properly. If they don't function well, it can cause issues.

Part

oil feed lines

Oil feed lines carry oil to different parts of the engine to keep them lubricated. If these lines are blocked, it can cause engine parts to wear out quickly.

Car

Mitsubishi Mirage

The Mitsubishi Mirage is a small, budget-friendly car that is easy on gas. The 2003 version is one of the earlier models of this type of car.

Car

Honda Jazz

The Honda Jazz is a small car that is great for driving around town. It has a lot of space inside for passengers and cargo, making it a smart choice for everyday use.

Term

manual transmission

A manual transmission is a type of car gearbox where you have to change the gears yourself using a stick and a pedal. It gives you more control over how the car drives.

Car

Mitsubishi Pajero

The Mitsubishi Pajero is a type of SUV that is good for driving on rough terrain. It's known for being tough and reliable, making it a favorite for off-road adventures.

Part

shocks

Shocks help keep your car stable and comfortable by absorbing bumps from the road.

Part

rear control arm bushes

These bushes help keep the rear wheels aligned and reduce noise and vibrations when driving.

Part

oil pressure switch

This switch helps ensure your engine has enough oil pressure to run properly and warns you if there's a problem.

Car

Ford Transit

The Ford Transit is a large van that can be used for transporting goods or people. It's popular for businesses and families because of its size and comfort.

Part

tyres

Tyres are the round rubber parts on cars that help them move and grip the road.

Car

Subaru WRX

The Subaru WRX is a fast car that's great for driving on different types of roads. It's known for its ability to handle well in bad weather because it has all-wheel drive, which helps it grip the road better.

Car

Nissan 300 ZX

Car

Toyota Altezza

The Toyota Altezza is a sporty car that was made by Toyota. It looks good and is fun to drive, and it was sold in some places as a Lexus under a different name.

Car

Lexus IS200

The Lexus IS200 is a luxury car that is small and designed for comfort and performance. It was made by Lexus, which is a part of Toyota, and is known for being reliable.

Term

And it's front wheel drive.

Sorry, have you got anyone you want to thank?

Just myself.

And now we do the after hours.

General, what would you go for?

They see us in there.

Because it's not a super car.

It's not.

Automated perfection comes in the form of two letters, A and U.

Long live my LTD.

Welcome to Car Talk. It's Tuesday night here on 908.9 Northwest FM.

It's me, Matty J, in the studio with Mr. Alan Deep Singh.

Mr. David Prince, Mr. Edward Bunting, Mr. Scotty Doe Johnson,

and Mr. Jim Barlow. How are we, gentlemen?

Good evening. Good, thank you.

Thank you very much.

Was that new intro music you had just there, Matty?

Yeah, we can hear you.

Oh, sorry.

That was a little bit of Tucker's Daughter.

Yeah, Tucker's Daughter's Memory.

That's a good song.

Was?

That's Cold Chisel?

No, it was Ian Moss.

Ian Moss, yeah, yeah.

But Ian Moss was in Cold Chisel, wasn't he?

I think he was, but it was his solo.

That was his own thing, yeah.

He's a good singer, Ian Moss.

He can build one out.

Tucker's Daughter is a memory.

So we are also joined by Rob Zidai. How are you, Rob?

Yeah, long time no speak.

Been a while. Good to see you guys.

Full House in the studio today.

It's really exciting. Good to see you guys.

What's been happening?

Let's get on with some car updates.

We'll start with Mr. Alan Deep Singh,

sitting to the right of me.

Not a lot of car updates for me.

I've missed a few programs, unfortunately,

due to random appointments.

But DMX is going fine.

I keep forgetting to hit up Isuzu,

SNN and Isuzu to say,

give me my bloody service documents,

because I've got those lovely signs

being all environmental. We've gone paperless.

And it's like, well, I still want my bloody

service receipts saying this happened

and this happened and we did all that

for when I eventually, you know,

take Isuzu to a car in a fair and say,

I just want a fair go.

But I think I need to,

I do need to get the jazz serviced.

I think that's been a bit over a year,

so I should have gotten onto that sooner.

How many Ks on that, Alan?

Probably about 2,000 more

than when you sold it to me.

What did that car done?

Like 110?

Yeah, I think it's somewhere around there,

110 and 111. I think it might be 111

something right now.

I remember it was over 100, but not by much.

Not by much, no.

So got to get the regular

service.

Hopefully find someone new,

maybe there's something that Maddie J

can recommend.

So that's the plans.

The STI is sitting there.

Nothing, probably getting a flat battery again,

which I'll charge up.

Put on the tender?

Yeah, but that's about all the car updates for me.

Very good.

Let's move on with David Prince,

updates with you.

I was just trying to think.

I'm up to my eyeballs in magna restoration.

I think a lot of us are.

A lot of us are, yes, yes.

We're all closing in.

That's going to be good.

This time next week,

we'll be packing our bags.

what else have I done

driven this week?

I swapped it over.

Had it had

the tier wagon

polished, picked that up.

Looks fantastic.

Did a couple more bits to it, finished off

painting the bumpers and stuff that I wanted to do

and another bit of detailing.

Then I took it over

to a car parking facility

that some of us are familiar with.

Probably how many Ks from my place would that be?

Five Ks?

Yeah, if that.

Where I'd left the 85 Accord hatch

that's a job for when I get back to from magna.

40th to attend to.

So I drove it home

and it

cars always smelled hot.

That oily old car smell.

And I knew it had a couple of minor royal leaks

which were cleaned down.

Anyway,

I was halfway home

and stopped at the lights

and I thought it looks very like smoke

coming from under the bonnet.

Temperature gauge was perfect.

Car driving perfect.

Absolutely not a problem at all.

So I opened the bonnet.

Certainly a bit hot.

Bit of steaming from

round the rock cover.

I thought that's not good.

So what I do, do I walk home,

leave the car here.

It's literally

half a kilometre now.

So I just drove very gingerly home.

Parked it.

Opened the bonnet.

Took a little video.

Thought, oh crap, this is just what I need right now.

And then I started gurgling.

You know, in the cars

and the cooling system is gurgling.

Not a good sign.

No.

So I thought, right, I'll shut.

That's a tomorrow problem.

I'll shut the bonnet.

That's the way to make it go away.

A lot of us have done that a lot.

Out of sight, out of mind.

When I wasn't out of sight,

it was parked in the street in my favourite car spot.

Just don't have to look outside the window, David.

It was a good day that I actually got that car parked.

Next day,

I thought I'd just let it cool down

or come back and have another look.

So went out the next day.

Opened the bonnet.

Took the oil cap off.

Absolutely clean as a whistle.

Not anything under it.

No drama.

Coolant was low.

So the overflow bottle was half full.

But there was no coolant

visible in the top of the radiator.

But it's just literally sort of

curls around and under itself

into the header tank.

So I thought, okay, well,

it's obviously low on coolant.

There's probably reasons low on coolant.

But

I don't like the gurgling sound.

So hopefully, I don't know if it's a blockage in the radiator

or an air bubble or something like that.

Did you top it up?

I haven't driven it. I've just moved it into the garage.

And as I said, that's a job for after Magna 40 now.

I might get up to...

What do you mean after Magna 40?

It's up to Magna 40.

Sorry?

It's going to Magna 40.

No, no, this is the Accord.

Oh, the Accord!

Oh, I thought this was the V6 Magna.

No, no, no, no.

No, that Magna's beautiful, mate.

Oh, okay. This is the Accord. Sorry, I got confused.

No, it's the Accord.

So, yeah, that has done

104,000 kms. Anyway, long story short,

I was buoyed by the fact that under the

oil cap was completely fine

and lovely.

So hopefully, it might

just be, I don't know, a thermostat air bubble

somewhere in the cooling system

might be a blockage in the radiator.

But I don't think it's cooked.

Let's just...

No, it doesn't sound cooked.

Sounds like it's just a cooling system issue.

Sometimes the radiators can get all silted up

and they get, you know, cold spots in them

and you have a record and it's sweet as pie.

What year is that car? How old is it?

85, so it's 40 years old.

Has it ever had a radiator?

I doubt it.

So that car has done

2,600 kms a year.

It's probably seriously

clogged up radiator and just needs that.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm pretty sure that will be.

The fact it drove beautifully still.

The fact that

it wasn't soupy, it wasn't cappuccino

under the oil cap.

All good signs.

Anyway, so that's

another job.

But I had swapped it. I also swapped

over the N1 with

that car's

that owner's, the Accord owner's

new car, which was

which is a Hyundai

venue.

And she's had that probably

3 months now, 2 or 3 months

and it had 180 kms

on the clock.

So not getting a lot of use.

I took that for a quick whiz down the freeway.

That's such a pleasant little car.

It's a cheeky little

thing and it's so comfortable

and smooth and quiet.

Yeah, 25

and a half grand or whatever it was drive away.

Hyundai venue.

I like how it's still a manual and I like

that. I think that's such an appealing

factor of that car that you can just buy

a car and we were talking

about it earlier. It's just a car.

It's transport and it's

refreshing to have a car that's just transport

and that's not screened up

to the hills.

But you put into a slot in turn.

You were saying it's quite analog

that. Got a handbrake that you pull on

properly

so it doesn't roll through the garage door.

No comment.

Yeah, so now that was good.

So it's been an interesting couple of days from car

wise but

Mr. Rigglesworth dropped

off one

magnet

last evening.

So way to raise

the real estate

values in our area. I reckon having a

beige TP

magnet GLX wagon in our driveway

and actually we've got to get going because

he's dropping the other one over tonight and I'm

running him home after the podcast.

But a dent man coming tomorrow to take

out a few little dents and little parking

dents and stuff out of those

cars. So I've got them lined

up.

745

my friend Andrew with his

box of barbecue tools is coming around to

do a little number on the parking

dents. I said do you want another one?

I said no.

No, thanks very much.

No, not just at the moment.

It's magnimonium

at the moment.

It's magma mayhem.

I'm consistently being asked by

Maddie's mum Sharon who's also my boss

no nepotism there

that did you secretly buy

a magnet Maddie?

I have not.

Because I have some guesses that maybe

you're a part owner in a magma.

No.

But she's constantly asked, he hasn't bought a

magnet has he?

She's quite wary of Magnifest.

It's still time.

How do I make this clear?

I won't be living

at home if I bring another car home.

Definitely if you're listening.

But it's not a long time car.

He's not buying a magnet.

He swears.

They're all temporary cars

they're not.

You've got one to drive.

You're driving someone else's.

I hope you don't fall in love with it

and end up buying it.

I will not.

It's one of Andrew's children.

You can drive the wasp full in love with that.

It would.

7999

I'm going to pay.

I'm happy

driving my Camry thank you very much.

I've been driving that in the last few days.

It's been great.

Camry.

So that's you David Prince.

Edit bunting.

All right.

Strap yourselves in.

There's been a few updates.

Update one.

The wasp is registered.

I repeat.

The wasp is registered.

Round of applause.

I did have to laugh.

When I drove it to my road worthy man

who was doing this particular job.

That on the way.

On the way there.

Literally as I got to the roller door of his business.

It was 730 in the morning.

I could see he was just raising the roller door.

As I rolled up the traction light came on

and the check engine light came on

and I went oh great.

That doesn't pass

road worthy if you've got those

warning lights on.

It's a very common issue on those gen 3

magnets where there's a solenoid that

controls both and it gets a bit jammy.

And it flicks them on.

As soon as you cycle the ignition it usually goes off

for a time and then it will eventually come

back unless you've sorted out that solenoid.

So we sort of know what it is anyway.

So I parked the car and then went in.

Oh morning.

Hey going.

Yeah good because I thought I'll just give it 30 seconds

or a minute.

And then I said oh which bay would

you like it in.

Normally I just barrel on in.

So they're like I'll bring it in this one.

Okay so then I went back out started it.

Oh clean slate good.

In the bay.

And yes I just got a message later on

saying yep come and pick it up.

That's all road worthy and done.

And I was like thank you very much.

So that's I've been driving that everywhere.

I've really been milking the wasp.

And it's behaving pretty well.

Track engine thing comes on every now and again

and every now and again it just doesn't.

So you know sticky solenoids.

That's what that is.

The 380 SEL went in

for a road worthy check that passed.

Really?

Yeah he said there's just one ball joint

top left that's got a little tear

in the boot that I'll replace.

But he goes other than that it's pretty good.

So which is sort of what I thought.

But still it's a 1984 car.

It's not new.

But it has developed this

I don't know if I mentioned the other weekend.

It's developed a top end sort of

you know there's a tick from somewhere.

Whether it's a sticky lifter

or a rocker or

the oil feed lines that feed the

lifters I'm not sure.

But it needs the rocker covers pulled off

and investigated and a bit like you David

that is a post-magnifest

job that I'll enjoy

doing during daylight savings time.

Other than that that car is sort of

fine I fixed a few things

I was in the halfway through fixing the

electric headrest the other day.

But again I just sort of packed it up and went

alright that's a future problem we'll deal with that.

What else?

I bought a Mirage

3-door hatch.

I thought of Eugene Barlow because it was a base

model with grey bumpers.

And I know you want to

style it in that configuration

but yeah this was a Mirage

done 48,000km from new

and then it saw this car

it was so

I mean I say was it's gone I sold it

but it was so clean

like it really was

like buying a new

you know a new car that's 20 years old.

I felt like opening that car it's a new car

you know it's it's

the plastics the car it had mats on

mats it two keys two

remotes like the original you know the fuel

consumption sticker that's still on the wind

screen like really really clean.

I mean I've seen

BMW demos with 3,000km

that are worse than this car

you know what I worked at.

So that lasted a day I was going to get at

Rejo and Road with him do all that stuff

but then my friend said you know what he just put it on

as it is and see if anyone bites

and some guy did bite

he had his mum had one he learnt to

drive in one he's like I want a cheap second car

and I said well this is this is one

out of the box you know you're not gonna

get one like that so yeah

I delivered that this morning

which was handy because on the same day

that I was a bit click happy buying the

Mirage I was also happy buying a Honda

Jazz same year

2003 so first gen jazz

in a manual 1.5

VTI so that's the good spec

Jazz ice blue because

they're all ice blue

really nice little car

that's done you know real high

Milo with 149 on it

but drives beautifully

you know cold air and just

lovely lovely little car so

I've just cleaned that and I might chuck that

online tonight and see if I get any bites on that

same thing it's unregistered so

if I have it for a few weeks I'll fix things

and then sell it with Regen Road worthy

but if someone wants it just

as is well they can have it

and that's that

Pajero the new old Pajero

that I bought the 02

that's still floating around somewhere

I put that in

to get a roadie check and that

I knew that needed some things and it wasn't too bad

so shocks all round

some rear control arm bushes

a windscreen polish the headlights

and an oil

oil pressure switch was leaking

oil and that's it

so not too bad you know that'll be a couple

of grand spend on it but that

once that's done in a detail that's

that'll be a very nice car yes David they've

swapped the driver's seat so that's

again a post magnifest

project I think

I'll delve back into that but that's got

Regen Road fib so that can sort of wait

what else

car wise have we done

oh the CRV

I left that somewhere for a week and then I went

and retrieved it so that's back with me

that's it

lovely

it's good to know how you doing

updates with you

no updates with the 31 but update

with the blade so we know

I had that little bit of damage

on the side skirt

did I already talk about this or not

no you've talked about the damage

you haven't talked about getting it repaired

okay cool I can't remember

everything's just flying by

so yeah

the damage tried a few places wouldn't do it

got to this place

had to go to his

home which isn't

too far away from where I live but usually

he can do mobile fixes

and stuff with scratches and dints and that

took it over to him

and

he completely fixed it

you would not even know

it had any damage whatsoever

even bits that were actually like

missing that had broken off

and disappeared he's fixed

and created a brand new

I don't know absolute wizard

with plastic and

the bead crack that ran through it

completely gone fixed

he asked me

who I went to

originally and said

and those people just said to replace it

and that's it I told him

and he said yeah he's not surprised

by most of those big companies because

I don't actually want to

do panel

beating anymore and it's a bit of

a dying art

he said if you go to a panel

beater if the guy looks like he's over 55

then you're set you're all good

something

something we're good at

David you're not a day over 21 so

don't be chewing him

don't go talking like that David

so he's

he's been doing it for 35 years

so he's got pretty good experience

got it done

in a day

and for a bloody good price too

that's awesome

so I couldn't highly recommend him

I'll do a little shout out at the end

for his company

definitely do that

so that's you Jim Barlow

how you doing man updates with you

yeah not too bad

apart from

returning to work obviously

I haven't really got any other car related

updates

Jim's one of those people I've noticed

the surname was always mentioned with the first name

yeah Jim Jim Barlow

like you had to say Jim it's always Jim Barlow

it's always work

yeah

it's always Jim Barlow

yeah I wonder

if that's like a single syllable

double syllable thing

yeah maybe

I mean I could call Edward

Tom Bunting

Jim

you really want

so no updates for you

not really

Jim, Rob's a die how are you Rob

good good good

what's happening dude

went on a road trip up to New South Wales

in my brand new

Ranger

done a sort of a work holiday

and went up to

the back of Golbin through

if you ever get a chance it won't be in caves

it's a very nice place to drive into

I've heard that

so it's very nice and it's sort of

basically the great divide

and you can go to

Janolan Caste from there

and then through Katoomer and

back down into Sydney

done a nice big road trip

about 2,000km car went well

so that was good

so Ford keep me

give me regular updates every week

about me transit and the buyback

so they're doing all the

they're buying it back

that's what they're looking at doing here

a buyback

they'll do all the figures and whatever they need to do

and look at all the history and how many times it's been in there

well this last time it's been in there

for 2 months now so it's good

but I've got a brand new Ranger

which is great I had 1500km on it

it's got about 4000km now

that's going alright

except I still don't have a key for the back trade

but I'm too scared to go back because they'll take it off me

that Mercedes

is progressing real slow

not getting much

traction there at all

I've been getting road wearbys

my son's Mercedes

he's sold it

but the guy didn't get finance

he's got to get new tyres

brakes, road wearbys before it

now it's sitting there

but that's

I suppose what happens when you try to sell a car privately

apparently

where is the SCC?

what part of Melbourne?

I drove past the Cannell shop yesterday with one sitting out the side

ready for paint

yeah no mine's in Ardea

no it wasn't there

there's two

the new Cinebun

one of the best buns in Melbourne apparently

does a Cinebun on this side of town?

yes

well not the Cinebun, it's the Cinebun

close enough

I'll have to get the details off you have to

no problems at all

I'll give you the address

it's pretty good

but apart from that

I haven't really done any major

works on any of the cars or servicing

no I haven't really driven any of the other cars to tell the truth

so the BMW's

parked up in the garage in Geelong

the F100's got a flat battery

I forgot

to put it back on trickle charge and kill the battery

the SCC

the F300 SC is getting out a bit

took it to a few car events here and there

just sort of like

northern girls and stuff like that

just to get it out and on the road

but in general

pretty much just ticking over, that's it

lovely, updates with me

I'm just trying to think, Camry

Camry yes, is here

we've been driving it

you haven't seen it Alan? No I haven't

you will see it

I got that leaky injector

taken out, so I took my other injectors

my old ones, the four remaining good ones

I took them to go get flowed and tested

and they all came back okay

thank you to the Alan Deep Singh over here for picking them up for me

always

happy to sneak out on company tour

really do appreciate that

got that put in

manifold off again

got what that put in, it is driving

superb, now I've got a few more things

I need to do to that car

got to get that recorded PDR

bars sprayed

and then mechanically

I want to give it the transit service

and then I've got all the hoses

ready to go, it's got to replace all the

heater hoses and radiator hoses

just to make sure

because they're a bit old and crusty

because I'm planning on taking this on a bit of a trip

next year

so once I can do all those things

I can make sure it's got a good clean bill of health

and off we go

but it's actually refreshing

hopping in that car

we were talking about earlier about the venue

having a key

this has got no button open or lock

it's just got a key

it's got no screens

or anything

I always say it's like being able to see with

Apple CarPlay Android Auto

but it's actually nice not to have that

and I've been listening to tapes

and the radio

I'm quite an old man now in my old

V6 Camry

on the inside he misses the Android Auto

a little bit

you're going to get yourself one of those portable screens

that you just stick on the windshield

and you plug into the cigarette lighter

you can just use your phone

and have a

holder and have a

FM transmitter to do your music

which I think I've got a spare one around somewhere

so that's been

going on with that

I've been driving that

I'll probably drive that for this week

and then put it away for a bit

but yeah it's looking really good that I've polished it

and ceramic coated it and did all those little things

so once I get the bars done

and that recorder

pulled out

with the little dintes

I think it'll be a really nice example

to be proud of

so yeah very keen

to do that

what else have I done with cars

I think that's pretty much it

on my end of cars gentlemen

so Rob's given us

the address of

Cinnabon

so Alam's going to have to

not to be confused with Cinnabon the chain

this is a private establishment

I believe that just does Cinnabons

they are getting sued by Cinnabons

are they actually

yeah they are

well it's not expected

let's be honest

but maybe we'll try and enjoy

one of their Cinnabon funds before they

get sued

into oblivion

so yeah

let's go and enjoy that

but I think that's pretty much all I've done

with cars

in a few or obviously next week

is Magna 40th

the big event

getting close Chad

once we get him back on the show we'll have a lot to talk about

hopefully we can get him there

where is Chad

he's got a family

a family member over

I thought he might be working on his car

well you know

it could well be

but there's plenty

it's all happening before Magna 40 guys

what's the hold up with Chad's car

transmission

needs to be resealed

I haven't talked to him

so I don't know what the trans people said about it

they said it's completely stuffed

completely stuffed

and Chad reckons he doesn't want to do it

that's why he's saying it

that's exactly right

because that trans was not completely stuffed

it drove perfectly

and that's what Chad said and Chad's very annoyed

so he's like

can you take it to someone else

like some other trans

things are in motion but we're trying to get him happening for him

watch this space

so gentlemen

I gave you guys some homework

which was to

affordable cars that are fun

under $20,000

I said for you guys to choose three

and have a couple honourable mentions if we get to them

now the reason why I've chosen this

I get asked quite a fair bit

what's a fun first car

or a fun car for not much money

and not much money these days

considering how much new cars are

it's $20,000

nowadays we could have said $10,000 or less

or even $5,000 early days

but now if you want to say not much money

unfortunately it's $20,000

to get something half

decent and fun

and they're like

oh that's

I mean using my first response is

well what's your budget

there is a car for every budget

and there is a car for

every personality

use

but if you want an SSJC for like $12,000

you've got to turn back the clock

and kind of go back a few years

probably close to 10 years

yeah

gone are the days when my mate couldn't sell his S15

turbo for $10,000

yeah

and now rolling shells are gone for $50,000

but we don't have Patrick on the show tonight

so what was that

Patrick

he's a busy man

he'll be back on soon don't worry

but yeah so

$20,000

it's a lot of money but then again it's not a lot of money

there is plenty of cars

I was going to make it hard for you guys

but putting them in categories and say

okay you need to mention a hot hatch

or sports event or whatever

but I'm just like no

people can consider fun cars

in whatever way

and if you can delve into

why you think it's a fun car and explain

absolutely all for that

gentlemen

$20,000

what are your picks for fun cars for $20,000

Scotty's not in his head

what are we thinking

okay this is a good start

this is a very good start

is my first one

I'm starting with a 2005

Honda

is he the integral type S

can I just say

these have been $20,000 forever

they were $20,000 when I was in high school

you know I think that's

they just don't go below that

and I've picked

this one because

I mean it's

this epitome of a fun car

especially

nice high revving

easy to maintain

there's different

looks that you can go for so if you want that

kind of ricer look you can do that

if not you can keep it stock and it still looks

beautiful you can

lower it you can put some nice rims on it

and that changes completely to another

style so

it's completely up to you with your taste

it's man-well

so we've got to have man-wells

because it makes it

even better and even more fun

it's even got the original

mats there looks very clean

this example

it's got a picture of the engine bay as well

big space is pretty good

just polish up

the headlights on it

you just polish up the headlights on it

and it'll be fine

I think that's the

the group M

intake on it so it's a bit

snazzy they're expensive intakes

so you got that

to go with it too

yeah

I mean I don't think anyone would

disagree with that one as a good

fun car to start with

to start us off

I'm going to sound like a complete old man

here but I actually prefer the way the

pre-facelifts look

with the indents and the bumpers

I think they're

you know I mean

this is still a nice looking car

but I just think that they looked a bit more aggressive

with the

cutouts in the bumpers

front and rear

that's a great choice though

I really like

these cars I remember talking to you guys

about

a lady that was showing us her house

had a gold

type S

it was lovely

I said to her I'm like this is a nice car

and she just looked at me and was like

what are you doing

but it was stunning

so yeah I get it

good first choice Scotty

does anyone disagree before I move on

that is a fun car

it's interesting they were type S

because you all know

the first ones that we got

the pre-facelift ones that were badge type R

were actually the type S in Japan

correct

which was

I think they lost a bit of face there

so the update

became the type S

which it actually was

but you also got an LSD

with that you still got rikaros

and I think you got an LSD as well

but

yeah

they weren't the full hog type R though

as you alluded to David

number two

coming though cons

no books previous owner lost them in a move

yeah

I've heard that a lot

yeah

have you heard that over the years David

oh yes it's right up there

this is my office yeah no

they're in the house somewhere we lost them

yeah yeah yeah

why are they in the house they shouldn't be in there

mine are in the house

because I don't leave them in the car

I don't want people to steal them so I take mine out of the car

who's stealing books Edward

books anyway

so second choice

you'll never get my books

I'll just break into your house I'll get your books

I know where you keep them

if you're putting the books with the car

then I'm okay with that at least the whole lot's gone

yeah

Scotty

machete or no machete when you go in

oh I mean I've got

something different instead that I've used

that I've mentioned before in previous podcasts

my second choice

is the WRX

good choice

preferably the GC8

but I mean you can still pick up some of the other

newer versions for under

20 grand as well so

but just this one just this example

but you can find other GC8s that might be around

about this price or cheaper and in

better condition but it was just

one that I quickly saw to put up

perfect fun car

you can do anything with it

it would be good if you

had a little bit of knowledge

to double check with these engines

and things like that or if you've got a good

mechanic then you set

keep it serviced

very regularly and you won't

have any dramas I'm sure

Alan can vouch for that

absolutely they are

fairly bulletproof if you look after them

simple as that this one

doesn't look like much has been

done to it it's fairly

fairly standard I'd probably replace

the steering wheel or something get that

it's got no mats

in it the bolsters got a split

they've been having smoothies in

that driver's seat and it's all stained

as I said this

is just one example but I'm saying there's

many out there that you can get around this price

or a bit cheaper yeah similar so this is just

this one's just

not the best looks like you just spent

more money on the engine bay to tidy up

and left everything else

in the back seat

people don't even vacuum

cars anymore in their car ads

no it's not

hard all the time they don't even

straighten the steering wheel or the floor mat or

vacuum it like what are you doing

sometimes they don't even bother really washing the car

yeah and Scottie

how much does this one

both of them so far that I've

shown a spot on

20 okay oh no this one's cheaper

17 sorry

I was trying to find all the ones just like

he said 20 so I'm just

find them maximum 20

it's like if someone gave me 20 grand

well I'm gonna use the whole lot aren't I

absolutely

alright number three

for something a little bit more

comfortable if you prefer

is the G6E

turbo

I love that colour that's one of my favourite colours

that they did who's the seller

of that car

it looks very much like a friend's

car got called James no

it's not the right car

I called James

is that right on 20 I can't see the price

from the there we go

19.5 okay with a roadie

with a road worthy as well

you can't go wrong with that

engines bullet proof

so as I was saying I kind of

chose this one as well

for something a little

bit different

because most of the time you think about fun

cars are kind of smaller cars and things

like that well I mean

some people like to just go out and

cruise

and this is perfect for it

and you'll be able to overtake anybody

you're not gonna have any dramas if you're

heading down the Nullar Ball

or anything like that

you'll easily overtake anything

that could be in your way

and you're not really gonna be afraid

of breaking down and things like that either

and if you do it's cheap to fix

yeah there's plenty of parts

it's a nice comfortable auto

I mean the ZF has been

well

what's the word

appreciated

over the time

that's kind of why I picked that one

you shouldn't have any dramas with it

and I thought I'd better throw in something

Aussie

so that's my third choice

honourable mention

I did have to

just quickly go through the two

yeah sure

I'll be quick

first one honourable mention is the 300 ZX

yeah that's that's

turbo one

it's a good question actually

it's NA but it's manual

okay

which isn't too bad

because it is still the target top

and you know

if you kind of want that

very sporty look

then you can't really go wrong with it

with those black wheels actually

yeah I really liked it

can't really fit in the back seat

but you know

I just want to say

they're sort of a bloaty looking car

they never really did it for me

but I think they've aged quite well

they were quite cool

when they were new

I remember they were cool when they were new

but now they just sort of look fat

no I'm a fan

I don't rate it

got plenty of stuff done to it

everything

like nothing stupid just things to

kind of look after it

and replaced a few

lights and bibs and bobs

but you know it's a nice clean example

and especially in manual

which is pretty tricky to find

and that's at 19

thousand

and then my last one

is the Toyota Altezza

RS600

so a few of these

are starting to pop up a little bit more

not many were made

but it's kind of the last version

of the

the black top motor

which is

highly talked about

kind of competes with the

4AGE

and whatnot

that people talk about

but this one is the last version

yeah I mean

if you don't know much about them

please look them up

because if you're into a bit of track work

and stuff

perfect

I mean is that ACQ

Lexus IS200

it is but with a far better engine

what do you mean far better the 200 had a good motor

it was okay

it was way better

way better

what's something about this

it's a 4 cylinder

it's a 3SGE

but like really over work

don't talk codes to me what is it

it's a 4 cylinder

a 4 cylinder

so you're telling me this 4 cylinder is better than the Lexus 6 cylinder

absolutely it is

well I would never

I'd have the Lexus

that's in screams

I don't want to scream I want smooth

yeah it's smooth and screams

yeah

it's only a 4 hanger

you're working it too hard Scott

that's what it wants

it wants to be revved

I like that as a choice

I think that's a really nice

so it was just a little mention in there

because some people might want a car

that they might start doing some skid pan days

or track days

this one's perfect for you to drive in

do that and drive home

love the choice Scotty

so you had the

honour rules were the Altezza and the 300

you had

then the G60

Turbo

you had WRX

and the first one was the

Integra

type S

I think there's some really fun cars

and their good choices are actually

quite

quite a reliable choice too

I think you made some good decisions there

I thought because it's kind of

where the budget is

and I'm thinking people kind of want

that performance and stuff

but you also want

reliability if you're kind of spending

that money

so I'm kind of picturing not super

not super old people

that are bringing in tons of cash

I guess younger people that are

looking for that sporty touch

where they can buy these and get straight into the market

and have a bit of fun

yeah 100% completely agree

great choice

Edward what's on your list

I'll show you how to have fun

oh yes please

car number one you can now get

an ND

MX-5 for $20,000

can you get an ND for $20,000

that is the latest shape of MX-5

the earliest versions of that

I think they're sort of 2014 or something like that

but yes you can have one for $20,000

or very very close to

just look forward there was one for $20,000

now these are cars with $100,000

$110,000

it's nothing on an MX-5

that's a lot of fun

for not crazy money

and reliable fun

is that a $1,500

or a $2,000 later

the one I just looked at before

was let's have a little

Butcher's Hook Bear with me

search cars

we're just going to go clear

we're going to go back to that car

I didn't save it and I probably should have

model MX-5

$168 cars

if we go price loader high

$20,500

$120,000

in a $1.5

manual

the next closest one

is $22,000

a little bit more but $23,000

you're close with a bit of haggling

you'd be there

but yeah $20,000

I think it's a stunning looking car

a guy work with Scott 1

and in D

and it's just the $1.5

he reckons it's the best thing since sliced bread

he absolutely adores it

I drove one with

$100,000 at that a friend of ours had

as a loner

and I just

I've never felt so at home in a car so quickly

it just jumped in it

zoom zoom zoom up the street and I was like

zoom zoom see what I did there

by accident

but it was amazing and I just said

this thing if you had to daily something

that was a bit fun this is it

really good

the second car

is from Germany

it's a bit of a schlipper

and this is the M135

hatch

okay are they on the $20,000 now

yeah just

again quite close to around there

I've got a friend that bought one well under

$20,000 but he did get a very good deal

but they're sniffing around

that $20,000 mark now

so this is the 6 cylinder twin

turbo 3 liter motor

in the one series hatch

body which

does a few things number one

it's still rear wheel drive it's the last

one series rear wheel drive they ever did

so the chassis is fantastic in those

cars it really hammers

number two it's a bit of a

sleeper

because not everyone knows what that car is

if you know you know but if you just

parked your little grey or white one series hatch

at the shopping centre people are walking

past that car and going that's a weapon

they're just going yeah the one series hatch

whatever

number three it's quite practical the rear leg room

is not amazing because it's rear wheel drive

you lose a bit of accommodation based on that

but you can fold the seats down you can put roof racks

on it you know it's not

not a totally impractical car

and they sound fantastic

my friends one has

had quite a lot of mods done to it

they're one of those cars you can very

easily mod up or leave stock

and you know there's a lot of choices

in the aftermarket world of tweaks

you can do it it's a very tunable

platform very tunable platform as is the

Mx5 but I think more

the racers in the BMW

will resonate with tuning and doing

things and the third

car a bit like Scotty I decided to go a bit

more Aussie you know

an SS Commodore with a 5.7

or a 6 litre you know you can now

get those for 20 grand

so whether it's a ute or

a sedan or a statesman with the V8

any of those platforms you can

sort of take your pick but SS

means one thing and that is

SS you know

and they were a bit

dinosaurian whatever but they sound

good and they go hard and you know

if that's your thing

there you go three different cars

20 grand a pop

spend 60

you can have them all I like that

I like those choices I like an SS

I think that's a good choice I think

like Scotty you've put in

your cruiser but still a bit of fun

to take on the weekends if you really want to

you've got your little sports car

and you've got a really cracking

like a 1-3 they're a bit of an

underdog aren't they

they're a bit of an underdog but

the boy races now are really

onto them like

my friend who's got this one

two of his other friends have also got them

you know they're kind of

and I know

actually another guy I went to his

birthday like a week ago

I said what are you driving down he goes oh I've got an M135

hatch but it's actually

an M2 I'm like what do you mean

and he goes well I took it to a

track day blew up the motor

found an M2 that had been

crashed

bought the motor and had that

put into the M135

so he's now running

M2 running gear and he said that motor

is just amazing and

it's basically kind of bolt in

because it's essentially

the same thing just

newer and goes harder so

you know people are doing things

like that to these hatches they're cheap enough now

that you can really have some fun and he

dailies that car takes it to the track and then also

dailies it so

you know it's not to be

sniffed at I hear

people are taking the

the BMW auto

transmissions out and putting them into all kinds

of other cars as well

yeah well they're very good like my mate's one

who bought the cheap one that's got all the mods

on it that's a ZF

you know 8 speed

auto the thing is a

weapon I drove it the other night and he's the same

guy Alex he's been on this podcast

he's got the M6 V10

this thing leaves the M6

for dead

now the M6 is not a slow car

but this

thing is just weapon and he

had a Volvo C30

hatch before that which is the Ford Focus

turbo 2.5 litre platform

which should probably get an honourable mention because

they are cheap very cheap yeah well

under 10 grand you're into a turbo

five cylinder Volvo C30

yeah so honourable mention

to those but he had that before

now I always thought that car was fast

you know he would go on the freeway on ramp

and make me feel sick and you know

this

this little one hatch

just it blows that out of the water

and you think

you think so much power out of this but it can

handle it the chassis is so good

so yeah I enjoyed

my driving that the other night that was a fun car

and his comment is always

the same whenever I drive his cars which is rare

but

whenever I drive his comment for this

oh wow this feels so much worse than the passenger seat

you know

and I'm like

there you go every time I'm with you

hammering hammering you know and I'm about

to vomit everywhere now you know

what it's like

the choice I like that a lot

actually I think that's

yeah I'm a fan

we'll go with

Jim

well I did have

an Integra before so I've made a slightly different

alteration

so that I'm not

my great minds think alike

first one I decided to pick was

a W124

300 TE

a T

yeah

so 300,000

K's

MBTECS interior

I don't think it comes with running in a red joe

but it is

I think

now Jim there was a criteria

of fun

it's got 8 seats

how is that not fun

8 seats

how is that not fun

it's a party

yeah first car is a

1990 W124

300 TE

so it's the 8 seater wagon

MBTECS interior

100,000 K's

and I think it's

my maths is being a bit weird but I think it's only 14 K

should allow a little bit of room to get

the road worthy done

you might get a road worthy for that

maybe hopefully

I probably have someone like Ed

who knows what they're talking about to go in with me

and make sure it's actually close to that

but

I can still get burnt Jim

yeah true true

so that was the

first one

it's a good choice

burgundy too

so the

David

I know Edwards

not a fan of those but anyway

I don't know

it makes me sick of my friends driving in the 135

or this

alright the next one

very very old

68 MG midget

with the

more desirable 1275

CCA series

that couldn't be my car

twin

car

with road worthy

wow

where is that car

that one is in

Alarat

we need to go through those photos

it looks fairly clean to me

that's exactly what I had

that exact car

really

the 13 years I had that

as you know I don't think that one

hang on stay there

on the transmission gearbox

tunnel

does it have a dent on the left

no it doesn't

that's my car

you had one of these Ed

so you were a fan weren't you

I was a fan I had that 13 years

a long time that car

they're a cracking little thing

they're an A series motor

same as a Mini and a Moog

and the 1275 very tunable

yeah it's all the fun

of British little

roti exhaust open air motoring

in just a shrunken down package

so how much is that Jim

that one is

I think it's

16.5

it's a lot of cars

that's pretty good buying

I've seen those

up towards 30 to 40 now

for a real schmick one

but 16.5

you're getting an Austin Healy vibe

for way less money

I told you I was on the show

my mate bought a

MG BGT

and

he absolutely loves it

and he paid 17 grand

it's a lot of classic sports car for the money

they are

because they made a lot of them

so they've always been

there's always MG B's around

and

that's helped their values

stay reasonably

affordable but

I was at Shannon's auctions years ago

with a friend

and we were looking at all the auction lots

and there was an Aston Martin DB5

DB6

the Sean Connery gold finger

style Aston

and it went for $600

then it's now probably 1.2

or something

but in the same auction was a

MG BGT

and that's

you just can't tell me that the Aston

is giving you

$600,000 more fun than the MG

but it just won't

it just won't

Jimmy you're trying to seduce me

if you're throwing a wagon

and now an MG midget that I love

let's see what the third car is

I think he's about to turn you off

because I know you don't like Italian cars

I probably will turn you off now

well

but hey, two out of three isn't too bad

third one

actually all of these

so far are Club Reger as well

third one is

DB6 as well

I actually adore these Jim

I really like these cars

if I had to

own an Alfa it would be this

this is what I would buy

so I was running up a few of them

this one has got a video of the engine running as well

it sounds very very smooth

$129,000

I think it comes with

roadworthy

the description is very very long

but basically they're not shallots owned by

a current member of the Alfa Americaa Club of Victoria

they've put $8,000 in it

because they wanted a manual Alfa

with the Busso V6

so it's got a Busso motor

yes and

has got a really tasteful

interior I think too

it's a beautiful color scheme

grey on red always works

it's quite classy and the interiors on these

they always look, I think they still

hold up quite well in terms of

design

when I was looking at the gauges

it reminded me very very much

of the first generation Mazda 3

yes

the needles point

to the bottom

obviously that's after

and probably not thoroughly related

but it was sort of similar

that one was nearly 19

just selling a bit different

that's a cracker I'm a fan

I mean I'm not seduced by it

but the color scheme and the condition are very good

I was

trying to find something that

I was more concerned about the condition than about

the

few other things I guess because that's more what I'm

concerned about and the history I find interesting

too obviously

yeah good looking car

friend of the show Michael Green

has one of those in that color combo

but the four cylinder

it's a beautiful car too

it's lovely

in silver with red and he's done

a beautiful job restoring it

it's a winner

I think that is

that for me out of all the alphas

that have come after it

it still looks good

you could probably with a little bit of a

nip and tuck probably sell out today

as a modern car it's aged really nicely

yeah

I've always been a fan of those

GTV V6 manual

absolutely

Ed would they bangle design?

I don't know maybe they were

there's a vague recollection of something like that

but maybe google that

but now

they designed the alpha judo

are they pen and farina?

I thought they were

yeah

I think so

I thought they were

the description is very very long

so we're trolling through it

that's a gorgeous example Jim

that's beautiful

he designed the Fiat Coupe around the same time

that five cylinder thing

yes the wacky looking Fiat Coupe

there's a lot of similarities

in this design

that swage line that runs

from the front wheel arches to the top of the boot

yeah there's a pin and farina

banger was known for designing the Fiat Coupe

and later for his work at BMW

I would own one

what's next?

I had two

joint special mentions

I'm not really sure if I can filter it out

bring them on

I'm not sure if it was fun necessarily

but I like the history

Austin Land Crab

the Austin AD

I like the conditions

I only had two owners from new

how much is this?

this is

eight and a half I think

very clean

original paint Edward

yeah I noticed

manual as well

now the engine in the Austin 800

is the same engine as in the MGB

it's

very very tunable as well

and a lot of people steal the

heads off those to put on the

MGB race motors because finding

non-cracked heads for MGB race cars

is hard

but I also like the

books that I had to

take back quite a long time

every stab in the book

has you seduced you again Edward?

I do like it

I was rather amused at the

3000 mile service interval

so I wouldn't be at the mechanic every month

how many

3000 miles is

5000 Ks

nothing

how many miles are on that now?

it says 29000

but I don't

probably one

I'd say so

judging by the driver's carpet

wear there

but I thought that was in quite some

exploration on the rear seat David

you could sort that out

just pop back to the driver's

view for me Jim

it's a nice colour scheme too

what's that?

it is a Byron car

very period

and then the other one which is very very different

I was thinking

comfortable saloon

with a bit of power

was Crown Magister

hmm

obviously

all right I can't have them all

great engine

just

for rolling along the highway

I think in supreme comfort

it also means too

with being just under 16 that you have got

money to redo the dashboard

which I don't think is bad in this one

but may potentially need doing

and all the advanced suspension

at some point

what happens to them do they crack?

they lift

yeah they go all yuck

it's quite a common thing with this

particular generation of Magister

obviously rear heated seats

rear recline seats

rear thumb shade as well

oh that's a lot of car for the money

here's the dashboard I want to see the

sticky one getting there

it's a little bit hard to see from here

but they tend to go a little bit

funny over in the corner here

you can really see it there

and I think that one's got

this particular example's got like 93,000 kms

up or something so

barely worn in for one you said

what motor is that running in

normal cylinder torque what is that

4.3 litre V8

from like the Lexus LS

and less 430 the same motor

yeah

well that is a lot of car

I like it Jim

I think that's a really nice selection

Rob hasn't shared

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technology

technology and

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two door manual and it has to be fun

mm-hmm

and what I've picked was the most

unreliable cars

which is a

Renault

Magane RS 275

Cup Premium

they are fun

they are very fun

201 kilowatts

yeah and it's only

20k drive away

they are one of the best

drives you can have

I've heard someone say

that's one of the most fun you can have

with your pants on

they are

awesome chassis great to drive

so that was

my number one most unreliable

but still fun

I haven't heard that they are that bad

in terms of reliability

just the name Renault makes me feel

like it's unreliable

I don't think they are that bad

not that bad

alright and my number two car

yeah is

a VRX

yeah

who not

HSVVXR

manual

we thought you were coming Rob

next week

so it's a manual it's only got 40k

on it

and that's got 171 kW

yeah they go well

so I was just looking at

power

2 door fun to drive

and it's 20k

another unreliable car

it was the choice between the RX8

which is unreliable not as much fun

they are unreliable yes

a 944 Porsche

1986 Porsche

944

I thought that would be fun

I've driven one of those

they are a very balanced car

they got a transverse rear

gearbox I think

yeah I think the box isn't that

transaxle yeah

they actually built it for Volkswagen I heard

somewhere

and Volkswagen said it was too expensive for us to build

so Porsche took it on and put their Porsche branding on it

but it was actually originally designed and built for Volkswagen

that's correct

for the 928 and it evolved into the 944

that is absolutely smart

my class used one

in top gear

and it was the most reliable one

it was yeah

well there you go

so maybe not so unreliable but 2 door

fun to drive, sporty

and they're all manual

and what engine capacity was

the 944 because they had a few 4 cylinders

well I just wanted a 2.5L

4 cylinder

but I also had a turbo one too

which was quite quick

they did

the turbos are worth a lot of money

yeah they're worth a bit more

so they were my cars

so the Porsche

and the Renault

and the HSV

VHR

now I like it, good choices

one array here don't we tonight

people complain oh you don't do consumer advice

this is consumer advice

ladies and gentlemen

I get asked all the time

about fun cars

but under 20 grand

and here it is

David Prince

so the first one

it's funny because there are themes going along

amongst us all

so I've also got

same brands that have been previously mentioned

but my first one is also a Porsche

which is

not expected I don't think

it's a real Porsche

Rob actually this one

it's a 98 Boxster

in Ocean Blue

it's auto

but you know I mean it's a bit of a posy car anyway

so auto is fine anyone can drive it

roof comes down

it's designed to be convertible

and it's $19,900

wow

very tidy at a dealer

in Woolamaloo in Sydney

and it's Ocean Blue it's a colour

not just silver

Ocean Blue with the tan interior

you see that's nice colour scheme

lovely colour scheme

$160,000

I would

there's only one Honda

in my collection another surprise for them

so that's certainly one

that came under

the radar and Rob it's a real Porsche

just in case you didn't pick up on me

just in case you didn't know Rob

he's just a bit of shade getting thrown

there

the next one

I should have mentioned the Wasp

so yeah look

I never really liked the Boxster

when they were new but I think

they have aged fairly gracefully

and they really are

quite iconic now

and quite playable too

but also

if you speak to a lot of people that are into them

they're quite robust like they're not a very

unreliable thing they're quite

good

then I also sort of thought

convertibles are a bit of a convertible thing

that's pretty cool

what about a

MX-5 and I actually went

under $20,000

so I still like $20,000

so of course I didn't find the ND

but I did find again a car that I

wasn't a huge fan of

early but has grown on me now

a sort of titanium

limited edition NC

and 105

K's at Penfold in Burwood

I could walk there to collect it

$20,000 with

the titanium grey with the red interior

what's the nice combo

very nice interior

very nice colour scheme

and yeah as we've said before

regarding the MX-5's bullet proof

the NC never gets any

love though it's actually

actually not it's not bad

it's not bad it's a good car

it's just that those around it were

so good it's sort of

shade but it's not

they actually feel pretty substantial too

compared to the early ones

I mean nothing will ever beat the character

an NB or an NA

the NBs felt a bit better but the NC

felt sort of a more

in some ways

was all more refined

and I was going to say robust

but I mean sort of substantial

really rather than robust

so that was number two

we've also

the Altezza

looked familiar because I actually

went rather than search

to go the full way to the budget

I thought of cars that I'd actually like

so I searched Lexus IS250 manuals

of which there's one in the country

IS250 here we go

IS250 manual

black

on black not wrapped

without the colour skin but hey you can wrap cars these days

30 on 30

11 grand

in Ivanhur

beautiful

so that was

that excited me

but of course the honourable mention

has got to be the one of one

if you look under Honda

and you go to in van

there is

in van

for sale in Australia

how much is that

that's $18,888

under

$7,000

wow

David can you please trade in that catty

seriously

David get it get it

those that happen to go to

Japan on a certain trip in September

2023 will remember the

fun we had at that massive deal

great at the Honda dealer

and

it's a silver one

it's a manual

so it's got the six speed gearbox

660cc

same as the N1 just no turbo

and look

that'd be awesome to work out

I could totally work out of that every day

what's the butt

the butt is that I don't share the road

with other K cars

I share the road in Melbourne

with other

rangers sorry Rob

that wasn't it

more stayed on Rob's

but you know like everything's huge

on the road

you know if you're on the Monash

at four o'clock in the afternoon

as I was this afternoon

you're a very small fish

in a very big sea

just want to add David everyone says to me

Dave must be the nicest guy and he is until now

this is

all this

all this niceness

all Rob

punching bags

I think you should start a

trend the people will see you in it

and they'll go wow that makes so much sense

and it'll start this K car trend

and what's it even my choice to drive a Ranger

either

it wasn't

so is that

have you bought the Ranger or is it a lone car

it's a lone car

oh okay okay you're still in

okay okay

I'll take back everything I said because that wasn't your choice

I apologize

we could just change this to my brother with his Ranger

he's true we'll do that

let me just mind it again

because I'm sure I've saved it here

and I'll send it through to the chat

it's cute as a button

what color is it

it's silver

all it needs is a nice set of wheels

and

good wheels silver might be added

what about a stripe

oh yeah a stripe would be cool too

graphic on silver might be nice

then show one car

there we go

that's so you David

you'd love it think of the fuel you'd save

and the servicing

costs your car is out of warranty now

nearly two months

almost and counting

yeah

yeah no it's

it's definitely a 2019 model

and it's done as I said under 7000 k's

yeah it's pretty good

I did put a bid today

on a Suzuki

Jimny

Jungle Green manual GLX

1.5 2023 model

with 9000 k's on it

and I just saw it on one of the platforms

and I just

I'll throw my hat in the ring

you know

I doubt I'll get it

for the amount I put on it

but hey

why not

actually it looked pretty cool with my

sun writing on it with my red and black sun writing

it looked great

oh David just do it you puddle around

anyway like you're fine

just do it and you're going to work

Fun for 20k

Subaru STI

Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

Toyota Altezza

Lexus IS200

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