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#2734054 25-Jun-2021 03:47

MileHighKiwi: Who decides what an appropriate use for something is?

The person buying the vehicle. They are incentivised to buy a low emission vehicle. If that isn't suitable for what they need they can still buy whatever was on the market previously, it'll just cost a bit more.

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#2734062 25-Jun-2021 07:18

raytaylor:
Rikkitic:

One thing I have never understood is why rural posties are made to drive right-hand vehicles. The one that serves our very long country road is forced to weave back and forth all the way out, often driving in the wrong lane. I know in America, at least in the past, rural posties had vehicles with the steering on the same side as mailboxes. It is much easier and much safer. Is there a reason we don't do that or is it just stupidity?

Most routes take the rural postie in a loop. They dont drive up one side of the road and back down the other side. Instead they take a completely different road to come home. So they zigzag across the road as they pass each house.

Half the mailboxes are on the left side of the vehicle and half are on the right side anyway.

Indeed that may be the case where you are Ray, but for myself, and the rest of the rural people in my area, the letterboxes are all on the one side of the road - the opposite side of the road if you're driving in one direction, the opposite side of the vehicle to the driver if you're driving in the other direction. A left hand drive vehicle would certainly make things easier for the postie and safer for everyone else.

I do agree with your other comments around owner operators though.

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#2744602 15-Jul-2021 14:19

people buy as many utes as possible before the ute tax https://www.driven.co.nz/news/no-clean-car-fine-for-us-thanks-ford-nz-taking-100-ranger-orders-per-day/

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#2744604 15-Jul-2021 14:23

Ironic thing is Ford have a Euro6 compliant Ranger that wouldnt get any extra fine.

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#2744617 15-Jul-2021 14:54

RobDickinson:

Ironic thing is Ford have a Euro6 compliant Ranger that wouldnt get any extra fine.

Available in NZ in RHD before 31 December 2021?

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#2744621 15-Jul-2021 14:57

yes they sell them in the UK

https://www.ford.co.uk/content/dam/guxeu/uk/documents/feature-pdfs/FT-New_Ranger.pdf

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#2744629 15-Jul-2021 15:02

RobDickinson:

yes they sell them in the UK

Bit of a long drive to Auckland though 🙂.

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#2744631 15-Jul-2021 15:03

perhaps they could you know import them or something.

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#2744633 15-Jul-2021 15:09

RobDickinson:

perhaps they could you know import them or something.

I expect they will be offered as a 2022 model. But you may as well get rid of your inventory of the existing models first as people rush to beat the tax. Just good business sense and another example of the law of unintended consequences.

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#2744637 15-Jul-2021 15:11

Pretty sure they knew what was going on, but the backlash of dropping new fees on people with no warning would have been a lot worse than we have now.

I'm not sure with the global mess we have if ford etc can supply enough to meet the demand before the end of the year anyhow.

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