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View Poll Results: How important is your health and your families health?
I'm concerned, bring in tougher Diesel emission laws 51 22.37%
I'm concerned but not worried, bring on the Diesels! 44 19.30%
Don't care, more Diesel vehicles please. 68 29.82%
Diesel is for trucks only! 43 18.86%
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Old 18-11-2007, 10:19 PM   #91
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I think diesel will be the way of the future, and after driving the new 125 kw Golf GT Sport, I'm sold, Quiet, very powerful and economical.

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Err Golf GT is petrol powered :
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Old 18-11-2007, 10:54 PM   #92
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Old 19-11-2007, 05:36 AM   #93
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haha. Diesel Landcruisers are one of the best 4WD's on the market.

I'd rather have a 4WD that can go on terrain that an explorer/territory cannot even set wheels on, rather than been some measly 2 seconds faster.

Oh btw our family car is a Nissan patrol so my opinion is unbiased.

For a real 4WD, nothing can beat a land cruiser which is followed by patrol then pajero imo.
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Old 19-11-2007, 11:00 AM   #94
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haha. Diesel Landcruisers are one of the best 4WD's on the market.

For a real 4WD, nothing can beat a land cruiser which is followed by patrol then pajero imo.
I agree 100%. I use my landcruiser for off-road, but also for towing a horse float with nearly 1.8 tonne of horses on board, and I wouldnt use anything else, it might be slow up hill, but if/when those horses start moving around I feel safe.
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Old 19-11-2007, 03:06 PM   #95
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I agree 100%. I use my landcruiser for off-road, but also for towing a horse float with nearly 1.8 tonne of horses on board, and I wouldnt use anything else, it might be slow up hill, but if/when those horses start moving around I feel safe.
Yep - I here you. 100 series pulls 3.5t off the factory floor as standard - and thats a 6 cyl. Should we start a Cruiser/Patrol vs Terri tread?
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Old 19-11-2007, 03:49 PM   #96
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And an F350 is rated to tow 7ton (but Aussie laws prohibit it) :
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Old 19-11-2007, 07:07 PM   #97
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its coz our diesel is shite, thats why we don't have the range of efficient diesels in australia as our sulphur content is way too high.
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Old 19-11-2007, 07:15 PM   #98
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Diesel in Australia has two grades. summer and winter. winter has a greater wax content which prevents the lines and fuel injection pumps from freezing.
The U.S. has 12 grades, one for each month of the year and the quality is far superior.
Diesel is the way it's all headed, common rail is producing more torque and greater economy that the equivalent sized petrol engine.
And if we all remember back, unleaded is carcinogenic, same as diesel, where we could just have the honour of trusty old lead back in the day.
so until they can justify growing Billions of tonnes of crops for ethanol fuel, it remains that 1/3 of the world lives in poverty and on the brink of starving,
Bust out the main sail skipper.
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Old 21-11-2007, 02:51 AM   #99
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You might wanna take a visit to the VW website or read book and try again.... remember i said GT SPORT, not GT Think you jumped the gun a bit on that one...

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LOL! Did you have a look at the website, might be the reason for no reply!

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The truth about diesel is this :

It does a 400 + klm round trip to Heathcote raceway.
Does around 14 quarter mile passes in a 2000kg ute with some burnouts thrown in, wins the DYO all in and makes it home with half a tank of fuel left. :

18.3 second passes don't set the world on fire, but diesel made for a fun (cheap) day out.
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Old 02-12-2007, 07:53 PM   #102
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its coz our diesel is shite, thats why we don't have the range of efficient diesels in australia as our sulphur content is way too high.
Ummm, not any more. We are starting to see the European Diesels start to come in to the Aussie market. I know as I drive one!
The diesel in Australia is required by law to have a low sulphur content to meet the Euro standards.
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Old 03-12-2007, 08:38 AM   #103
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nothing wrong with diesels when running em on cooking oil, except the govt doesn't like missing out on the duty, so they dont really like it, but no deadly fumes (so far as i know) just smeel like a chip shop!!!
I haven't had a read myself , but Fearnes Coaches were experimenting with Canola Oil years ago , then all of a sudden it went quiet .

Here is a couple of sites that may be more up to date . I'm just about to go and have a snooze , couldn't stay awake to read 71 pages . Hope this fits with the discussion as an option .

Food for thought .

http://www.greenfleet.com.au/uploads...0Low%20res.pdf

http://www.napswq.gov.au/publication.../biodiesel.pdf
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