2011-08-09

Fiat.

Fritz should now fit in to this Italian town. Fiat have only sold a handful of cars in Australia in the last three decades so the new badge should keep people guessing.
Of course if the importers had enough sense to import the new 500 with the right engine option and at a believable price Jimmy could be interested, but not at the luxury $30k nonsense price they murder the brand with.
Of course Fiat being only four letters meant education challenged Jimmy has a better chance of spelling it.

2011-08-06

Offensive.

This arrived in the mail yesterday.

The carbon pollution they repeat mantra style to push their new tax is actually carbon dioxide, part of the cycle of life, plants need it to grow and feed us. I am so beyond listening to anything this government does that I've just switched off totally. The sooner this incompetent wasteful government is gone the better off all but the employees of the totally meaningless climate change department will be.

This is what I did with it.

2011-08-05

Kings beach

No great reason for this post but the timer done photo turned out OK.

Almost cactus.

Fritz's radiator has definitely seen better days, Jimmy will soon being replacing it. Better now than have it fail on a trip and pay 3 times the price from a shark somewhere.
It coped with our winter temperature on the drive home but was showing signs of being marginal.

3 cylinders and 847 cc of muscle.

At least Jimmy can use most of Fritz's throbbing 31 kW of power pretty often.

The seats don't look comfortable,

But in typical Japanese style everything works well when cruising. Japanese cars always fit Jimmy nicely, they must have short legs too.

Olde timey instruments.

Jimmy is actually pleased about that, but still intends blinging it with LED lights.
It would take a long road to get to the 140 on the speedo, if indeed it could, but funnily enough it blasts along happily on a very light throttle even at our highest 110 km/h speed limit, so who needs more?