Vsicks Pathy
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It's called "compensating".
lol
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besides: here is the 07 tundra
small 3 getting smaller.
Just as ugly as the rest too. They should sell like hot cakes then.
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This thread is funny.
I currently am dealing with a non payer (transfer case). My aution stated, and very clearly...
No Postage. COD only. And Local Pick Up Only.
The f*ckwit lives in NSW and must not be literate. I live in Vic, like up to 1000ks away.
Now this d!ckhead takes weeks to reply to anything and I know if I leave a neg feedback (of which he has several) he will tarnish my perfect 100% pos feedback by leaving me a neg too.
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4 row radiator.....
even less airflow thru to the engine, ay steveo....
if i were to re work my pathy setup it would be a 2 row aluminium
It's a hard call Steevo but I'd take my chances with the 4 core.
The engine bay just doesn't allow for good are flow no matter what you use. We are both exaples of that.
We both left out air con and we both have V8 (based) radiators and we both got hot. Remember, I used a v6 commodore radiator originally and it overheated as soon as I went off road. Anything slightly tougher than a Safeway car park and I could fry eggs on the bloody thing.
As I said, the twins made a difference but it wouldn't cool a V8 on a mild hill on a warm day. And once it gets hot you'd have to shut down because the fans don't cut it. For road use, a V8 would run all day without any problems IMO.
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Toyota's got NOTHING on what an F350 or HD3500 diesel will haul or tow. Toyotas aren't even considered in the same category, and as you said they aren't even available yet. Domestic trucks are also the ONLY platform for building industrial HD trucks that are used in aerial construction, hospital services and towing, general construction, etc. I have yet to see anything BUT a domestic truck on a job site around here. Sure, people drive their own import trucks to work but companies don't generally buy them to use in the same fields.
And Camry? WTF? Are we talking about cars or trucks here? I was just talking about trucks. Cars are a different story. Camry is the #1 SMALL CAR sold in the US, Honda is close behind, I don't dispute any of that. Good cars, long legacy of quality and longevity, etc. I don't have much to say about domestic cars, I've driven and owned a few but they were all used 80's cars, so no real way to comment on quality or anything IMHO...they were thrashed before I got them.
It is exactly this line of thought and closed minded tunnel vision that has put Chrysler, Ford and Chev in the sh!t. You make it sound like these 3 only produce trucks? I would have thought that car sales (lack of) would have been a massive part of the equation. No-one wants the big pollution, slapped together, fuel guzzeling, bigger and uglier than the last model CAR, TRUCK, or SUV (or whatever you'd like to call them) dinosours anymore. That is why the Japs are raking it in and taking over!
Trucks and SUVs.... You better had start comparing them to cars, and quickly too.
You say camry is the number one small car? Over hear it is classed as a large car. So tell me, what is the number one large car and by how many units does the Camry beat it or fall short of it.
As for Toyota, no need to scream they have got nothing? We all know that. All I said was that they will, and very soon too. And when they do, look out! Their diesels are way more refined than that produced in the US. Their fuel ecconomy is way more refined too. And as you said yourself. "Good cars, long legacy of quality and longevity, etc. I don't have much to say about domestic cars,".
With that in mind, what model "full sized" pick up would you be looking at? be honest now.
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Final stake in the heart my butt. People in the US are ADDICTED to Ford and Chevy. It matters not whether the Chevy has an Isuzu-produced diesel in it, people don't care as long as they see the bowtie they can safely reminisce about the good ole days when Chevy and Ford were about the only trucks you could get that were worth a damn to haul stuff with. We don't have anything else that will do heavy loads or towing!
Addicted to them? I think not. Camry has been number 1 in the US for ten years. That alone must surely speak for itself. If people were addicted to them (like the good old days) they wouldn't be in the position they find themselves in today. Nah, that addiction has long passed. Actually, the addicion is the reason they are in the poo. The sales were expected, not earnt.
Nothing else for towing of heavy loads? You will soon, a Toyota! Quality, ecconomical and reliable. That's a far cry from what's on offer at the moment.
And how many people can really justify owning such large and no-nenviromentally friendly trucks (and that is exactly what they are, trucks) for towing anyway?
Over here most of us will hire a truck if we need to move house or the like. We don't drive a truck every day because there is no real reason to use it like that. As for towing.. A tow bar and a trailer work fine. The good old ute too, is a very handy car to have.
If Chrysler, Ford and Chev don't pull their finger out, then reminiscing is all that will be left.
As I said earlier... The only way when you hit rock bottom is up. BUT the changes have to be recognised and iimplemented. If not just sit back and remember when.
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The new pathfinder is a V8 with 3 rows of seats.
DId the japs read about American stupidity? Maybe that is a very smart move by Nissan....
As for the V8 nissan.. What dimentions is it to be? Will you need an elevator to get in it? I think not. Just because it has an 8 in it doesn't mean it MUST take up 3 parking spots at the local super market. The Japs have been doing 8s for years, I think they know what works. But then again...... Toyota are going to make a "full sized" pick up for the US too. That might just be the final stake in the heart for ford and chev.
I think the point being made was that the US cars are BIG for the sake of being BIG. Their size doesn't serve any real purpose. A Tarago has 3 rows of seats too, but it is still only half the size of a comparable US vehical.
I just thought the artical made a good argument and when I look next door and see my neighbours POS F250, I am inclined to agree.
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I read with interest an artical today (Herald Sun) about why the US car companies are failing. Along with the poor build quality the main factor seemd (in the writers eyes I supose) to be that the US car makers are still producing dinosours. Namely huge cars "stupidly referred to as SUV's." Cars that are huge just for the sake of being huge.
Apparently the Camry has been the top selling car in the US for the last 10 years too and Ford, Chrysler (apparently they aren't doing to well with quality either) and Chev were just too stupid to change.
Anyone with half a brain would have looked at the size of the imports and balanced that with running costs and then adjusted their product accordingly. I did say half a brain.
I will see if I can find the artical on line. If I do, I will link it.
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Getting to that point V6, I think the US auto unions are part of whats killing the industry. The few auto workers I've met were lazy, demanding farkers that I would never hire. Look, if the plant closes for a week or so, they get payed 95% normal wage to stay home. Must be nice...
If you can't handle a job that may not be consistant, time to look for other freakin work !!!
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I too have encounterd lazy workers. They go from the bottom all the way up to the top. They should all be taken out and flogged. You and I both know that this is the exception though.
As for being paid to stay at home... I would expect that this would be a ceiling agreement. Some industies have similar agreements here too but for the most part the worker uses his or her entitlements. Ie. long service leave, annual leave or rosterd days off to make up down time.
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Those work place packages seem too good to be true. 75k plus the extras in the 80's. Fark! thats good money. Around 200k in todays speak. Whats more amazing is that the car companies were profitable then???????? They must be the only workers able to live in the US at the moment without have 2nd and 3rd jobs.. No need to be a doctor when a factory job pays like that.
I would have thought that, like here, the Unions best interest is to have a viable market place. Without an industry there is no relitive Union. No jobs all round.
I will have to look into wage structuring for the US auto industry. Those figures seem outragous to me.
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Unions mz? Here they help with all aspects of car manufacturing. Safe work places for example saves down time due to injury etc. Implementation of new process are always run past union members before hand. Again to asses risk etc. Sure, they push for better pay too. With a CEO earning 7 figure salaries some has to try to even the ledger. I was a quality control inspector (6 yrs) with Toyota. In those days wages were about $19.80 an hour. They now are around the 24 or 25 dollar mark with a 35 hour week. These guys work f8cking hard and fight tooth and nail for everything thay get. The living wage gets higher too, it HAS to be matched. My biggest fear is that Me Too (aka, John Howard) is heading down your path of no wage rises anymore. He is making it very hard for unions to function and has all but made the Industrial Relations Commision defunct..
If he stays in power, we too will have people with two or more jobs and still not able to make ends meet.
As for your car industry.... Once you hit the bottom you can only go up.
I forgot to mention... I was the union rep at Toyota for most of those years.
I call Jonh Howard "mee too" because he waits for whatever the USA says and then says... Mee too. I stole that from the mufti.(sp?)
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Unions mz? Here they help with all aspects of car manufacturing. Safe work places for example saves down time due to injury etc. Implementation of new process are always run past union members before hand. Again to asses risk etc. Sure, they push for better pay too. With a CEO earning 7 figure salaries some has to try to even the ledger. I was a quality control inspector (6 yrs) with Toyota. In those days wages were about $19.80 an hour. They now are around the 24 or 25 dollar mark with a 35 hour week. These guys work f8cking hard and fight tooth and nail for everything thay get. The living wage gets higher too, it HAS to be matched. My biggest fear is that Me Too (aka, John Howard) is heading down your path of no wage rises anymore. He is making it very hard for unions to function and has all but made the Industrial Relations Commision defunct..
If he stays in power, we too will have people with two or more jobs and still not able to make ends meet.
As for your car industry.... Once you hit the bottom you can only go up.
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whats with the 2500 stall on a suposed 'rock crawler'.....
You beat me to it Steevo.
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This all goes back to the very beginnings of autos. In the beginning the only Europeans who demanded autos were the rich, and they wanted "fine driving machines." However in America everyone demanded a car, simply because there's more distance to be traveled in the US, hell most of our states are bigger than some European countries. So Americans demanded simple autos that would get them from point a to point b. Thus a difference in manufacturing methods and approach to designing cars is engrained in our history.
You obviously have not been to Europe. It is huge... MASSIVE. It seems small when looking at one country only. You have to look at the whole.
You drive accross only 3 states here (East coast to West coast). How many states would you have to cross in the US East coast to West coast. The distance traveled is the same. It doesn't mean one place is larger than the other.
It's all comparitive.
European cars are not all fine automobiles. Fiat (Fixing It Again Tony) are POS that rust away in no time at all. Opal used to be, and some still say they are, POS too. Skoda...... and the list could go on and on. What killed your market is too much profit taking. Always wanting more for the greedy, demanding share holders and cutting corners to give it to them. The bubble has burst and now they are covered in sh!t. It happend here too.
Now in Australia, we are now making quality Chevies for "your" market and the Middle East. The Pontiac and the soon to be produced Camaro are designed and built here. We can not compete with the asian imports from Korea and soon China. Our current Federal Government has decided that 0% tarrifs are a good thing. We get burnt by the Asian car companies that flood our market because they have tarrifs (up to 25%). It is not possible to enter that vast market at those rates to compete. We do succesfully export our luxury Statesman into Asia though. It is rebadged as a Chev for some reason?? The only thing that is keeping our local car manufacturing alive is build quality and inovation. Because of this, we have demand for our product overseas.
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This is a very good read for anyone interested in world affairs.
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let me know what you think of it after you watch
history is entertaining to me
Bloody DSL! It has just finished DLing. I will watch it on the weekend and report back to you.
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v6,
i got your t-shirt and writings: http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/express...rs20010105.html
and more on the T: http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/docu...ocumentID=10552
and i'll raise you a big brother: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060327/27fbi.htm
and a domestic terrorist: http://www.nuvo.net/articles/a_new_breed_of_terrorists/
Lets examine the "t" shirt issue and forget that it was a Marilyn Manson lyric. Instead we put on it a picture of G.W.Bush. And under it an assesment of who he is... "I am the God of World Wide Terrorism."
What would the outcome have been then I wonder. lol.
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And just so we know that freedom of speach is a thing of the past in the US. This link.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_...writer_threat_1
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Common sense.
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I have been away paintballing, otherwise I'd be the first reply.
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vsicks did you ever see the video doc "why we fight"? I just saw it a couple days ago and it's pretty interesting stuff. I you haven't already, you may want to check it out.
I will look out for it on bitcomet.
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SCOTT PELLEY: Do you think you owe the Iraqi people an apology for not doing a better job?
BUSH: That we didn’t do a better job or they didn’t do a better job?
PELLEY: Well, that the United States did not do a better job in providing security after the invasion.
BUSH: Not at all. I am proud of the efforts we did. We liberated that country from a tyrant. I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude, and I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean, the people understand that we’ve endured great sacrifice to help them. That’s the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that’s significant enough in Iraq.
PELLEY: Americans wonder whether . . .
BUSH: Yeah, they wonder whether or not the Iraqis are willing to do hard work.
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new pontiac for the States
in Off-Topic
Posted · Edited by Vsicks Pathy
You guys are going to get the new VE Commodore rebadged as a Pontiac. The front grill has been uglied up and the bonnet scoops are back but it is a Commodore. Link.
Not only that, you will also more than likely be getting the ute version too. Now that will really kill you truck sales. The red car is an idea of what to expect from a ute.
Some pics. linky.