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    Quote Originally Posted by onearmedbandit View Post
    The W12 was a VW group engine, the Maybach SUV uses the normal 4.0l V8 TT (with the addition of hybrid drive) found in a range of Mercs and Aston Martins.
    We had a Bentley in at work last week with the twin turbo W12, it does about 1000km a year
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    my objection to them is the way the tax system is skewed to make them the logical and inevitable choice for urbanites. There are a couple of flash harry mortgage brokers here who have double cab utes as work cars because of course they do.
    how do you know they dont use the DC to tow the boat or the horse float etcetc

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    People do buy vehicles that project the image of who they want to be. An American guy I see on YouTube was saying that the guys who drive trucks in the US mostly live in the suburbs. He himself lives up a dirt road and his neighbours, who might be expected to have use for a truck, mostly drive muscle cars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    People do buy vehicles that project the image of who they want to be.
    Marketing 101: There are two reasons anybody buys something, the reason they tell you and the real reason.
    100% true. Having spent a lot of my working life in vehicle sales, everyone buys a car they want, even people who don't like cars who will go out of their way to avoid anything showy.

    This is why I argue that it will be a hard sell to have mass adoption of 'ride share' schemes. People like to drive and own cars that reflect themselves.

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    Well that, and anyone who has waited for a taxi in a hurry when it turns out to be a busy night will attest to how frustrating that is. But I didn't know it was the EdSherran concert. How would I?
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimO View Post
    people shouldn't be able to buy motorcycles over 250cc and you shouldnt be allowed a adventure bike unless you are going on a adventure
    every motorbike ride is an adventure, in one way or another, in my experience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    Well that, and anyone who has waited for a taxi in a hurry when it turns out to be a busy night will attest to how frustrating that is. But I didn't know it was the EdSherran concert. How would I?
    Not to mention the fun times to be had when surge pricing (definitely a euphemism for price gouging) puts the cost of a ride home at about the same as a years wof and rego.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimO View Post
    people shouldn't be able to buy motorcycles over 250cc and you shouldnt be allowed a adventure bike unless you are going on a adventure
    You have to love “adventure “ riders that download GPS tracks of others rides and become instead “itinerary riders”, what ever happened to where does that road go...
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    my objection to them is the way the tax system is skewed to make them the logical and inevitable choice for urbanites. There are a couple of flash harry mortgage brokers here who have double cab utes as work cars because of course they do.
    You can claim any vehicle against your business tax obligations with good accountant, is there something different about utes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by R650R View Post
    You have to love “adventure “ riders that download GPS tracks of others rides and become instead “itinerary riders”, what ever happened to where does that road go...
    I still use a map to find out where that road goes. Y'know, petrol, hill billies, curmudgeons, here there be monsters.
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    What ever happened to question marks?
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    What ever happened to question marks?
    People were no longer allowed to ask questions, on pain of 'Misinformation', so the Question Mark became extinct.
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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    What ever happened to question marks?
    A group of embittered apostrophes, still annoyed about the constant apostrophe abuse on social media got together and killed them all. Does that answer your question ... ? (I've saved a few question marks for my own use).
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    every motorbike ride is an adventure, in one way or another, in my experience.
    And i'm assuming you didn't grow up learning on old British bikes ?

    The only reason a lot of us who did have survived was the low traffic volumes back then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    And i'm assuming you didn't grow up learning on old British bikes ?

    The only reason a lot of us who did have survived was the low traffic volumes back then.
    The only brit bikes I have owned are modern Triumphs. My first bike was a TS125 back in the day age 14-15. First motorbike I ever rode (and fell off) was an RV90
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