Australia and Cars

Just read all of that, great read. I am really jealous of you right now though sounds like an amazing trip. Definitely something I hope to do in the future? Must have cost big £££ but sounds like it was worth it!

Looking forward to part 2.

Also that Holden badge reminds me of the Vauxhall badge too much!
 
It actually wasn't that bad, I think it was just under £3k including flights. Obviously it was helped in that I want halves with the GF on the car hire, petrol, accomodation etc.
 
I'll do the other half tommorrow which is a review of a 2008 Toyota Camry Sportivo, 2008 Toyota Aurion and a 2003 Toyota Land Cruiser.

Anything else you want me to type endlessly about?
 
I'm assuming the Land Cruiser was on Fraser Island as I know you said you did the self drive thing there?
Great fun hooning about on the sand there.
 
Howard said:
Oh god stop it, I was practically mopping up pools of drool after seeing it on Top Gear. I want one so badly :(
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That wasnt on top gear, was it? This was:

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Cheers for the review, off over there in decemeber and got about 10 days of driving planned up form Brisbane for a bit then back down to Sydney. Was going to go for the Holden, but think i will look into getting the fords instead.
 
iaind said:
kefkef said:
Cheers for the review, off over there in decemeber and got about 10 days of driving planned up form Brisbane for a bit then back down to Sydney. Was going to go for the Holden, but think i will look into getting the fords instead.
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The only way to be in with a shout of getting what you want is to call them after you book and ask if it can be made a note of - otherwise you get what they've got. Thrifty ONLY run Falcons though, so if you rent a fullsize with Thrifty you'll get a Falcon. My second Falcon was from Thrifty, I'd have used them again but they wanted a drop fee for Cairns airport.

peterattheboro said:
Aussie Tottie please.
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I didn't really pay any attention to that :confused: Some guy at Port Douglas was doing some sort of bikini photoshoot though.
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Great read so far, and your trip sounds so fun I want to go. :(

Anyway, glad to hear you enjoyed it as from the looks of it, it was fantastic. ;)

As for Jap cars, aren't Mitsubishi FTOs and the like quite popular as well?

Looking forward to part two. :o
 
Blackhawk47 said:
As for Jap cars, aren't Mitsubishi FTOs and the like quite popular as well?
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Yes there is loads of Jap stuff. Weirdly the most common Jap car is the 2 door Mitsubishi Lancer coupe. A car I didnt even know existed. Lots of them done up to look like 2 door Evo's. Lots of FTO's as well, and S15 Nissan Silvias.

Interesting they also have a saloon variant of the current shape Impreza WRX. And it looks brilliant. Why dont we get that :confused:

They also appear to have 95% of the worlds production of Subaru Impreza Sport's. Seriously, everyone has a normally aspirated Impreza. It's quite odd, as I gather they are as crap there as they are here.
 
Who did you hire from out of interest? Did you have any fee's for dropping off at a differen't location than hiring from?
 
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I hired from Hertz 3 times, Thrifty and Europcar. No drop fees, and 3 of my rentals were one way.

I also hired from Wicked Campers :(
 
Fox, sorry if you said before, but how come you rented so many different cars instead of just 1 car for the duration of your trip?
 
Convenience. Didn't want the hassle of parking a rental car in the big cities - I was in Sydney for 4 days and parking was a good $20 a day... plus $50-60 a day for a car I wasnt driving. So I rented between the cities.
 
[TW]Fox;14613818 said:
I went to Port Macquerie breifly, with the random painted rocks? And the drive through bottle shops are everywhere :eek:

It is the most fantastic place I have ever been. I went for 6 weeks and it was not long enough. I really, really want to go back there. Right now.
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glad you liked the place

last time i went i wasnt able to drive, but ive been about 5 times now, as most of my fathers side of the family emmigrated there. Ive got 3 sets of aunts and uncles, one set of grand parents and 8 cousins. So plenty of people to blag a nights sleep at :D

Its an awesome country, and i had a massive row when i was 17 with my mum as i said at the time how much i loved the country and wanted to move there. Still do to be honest.

Drive through alcohol. In this day of "booze britain" i cant believe nobodys invented it over here yet !

[TW]Fox;14614476 said:
Yes there is loads of Jap stuff. Weirdly the most common Jap car is the 2 door Mitsubishi Lancer coupe. A car I didnt even know existed. Lots of them done up to look like 2 door Evo's. Lots of FTO's as well, and S15 Nissan Silvias.
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Ah the mitsubishi eclipse. They love them over there ! and as you say they love their jap junk over there. They get the JDM spec imprezas too, my uncle had a jap spec WRX in the days when we only got the UK turbos.
 
Cracking write up Fox, enjoyed that thoroughly.

That Ford Ute is pretty darn awesome, shame you can't get something like that over here :(

Did the road trains have Bits of Kangaroo and Ostritch hanging off the front? :eek:
 
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