Driving in Australia

DAIR · 28 May 2017 at 18:49

I'll be heading Down Under next month. And would love to drive something like a Monaro out there.

So have any of you hired a sports car out there before?

[TW]Fox · 28 May 2017 at 18:55

Nobody is going to rent you a 10+ year old Monaro so that's a non starter. Proper sports cars are insanely expensive to rent so your best bet is going to be something like a Holden Commodore SV6 or a Ford Falcon XR6, they both went out of production a few months ago but there should still be some on rental fleets. You'll probably need to rent from the Premium class to get one.

geekman · 28 May 2017 at 18:55

Make sure you stick to the speed limit, they're extremely strict over there and love to hide cameras in unmarked cars / bushes etc.

[TW]Fox · 28 May 2017 at 18:56

geekman said:
Make sure you stick to the speed limit, they're extremely strict over there and love to hide cameras in unmarked cars / bushes etc.

100x this - they are very hot on even very slight straying over the limit.

DAIR · 28 May 2017 at 19:33

[TW]Fox said:
Nobody is going to rent you a 10+ year old Monaro so that's a non starter. Proper sports cars are insanely expensive to rent so your best bet is going to be something like a Holden Commodore SV6 or a Ford Falcon XR6, they both went out of production a few months ago but there should still be some on rental fleets. You'll probably need to rent from the Premium class to get one.

Well if thats the case. I may give that experience a miss.

[TW]Fox · 28 May 2017 at 19:35

Should be fairly reasonable to get the Aussie RWD Sport saloon experience though.

DAIR · 28 May 2017 at 19:52

I'll see what happens.

Have any of you been to the Mount Panorama track?

[TW]Fox · 28 May 2017 at 20:15

Yes and I drove my Falcon around it, it's a public road you can drive on

It has a very low speed limit though so don't get any ideas!

DAIR · 28 May 2017 at 20:42

[TW]Fox said:
Yes and I drove my Falcon around it, it's a public road you can drive on

It has a very low speed limit though so don't get any ideas!

lol I doubt I'd have the balls to go fast on it. The track looks tighter than parts of the 'Ring.

Yep.. Might pay it a visit at least!