Thread: MG Ute ?

Originally Posted by Tins

Did you miss this one?

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I'm not sure that's a "Lipstick on a Pig" scenario.

Wrong? My word!

Didn't matter what badge it wore, the door handles still broke off.

Originally Posted by Tins

Didn't matter what badge it wore, the door handles still broke off.

Maybe if you were hamfisted. I had one as a company car, wearing the proper blue badge, never broke a door handle but wore the camshaft out.

Originally Posted by Tins

Didn't matter what badge it wore, the door handles still broke off.

Yep. The company I worked for had three and all of them had door handle issues.

I remember having one during the Brissie airport redevelopment. Sand was being dredged from Moreton Bay and used for fill for the new runways.

This made diving a 2wd vehicle somewhat awkward. Even 4bees had trouble.

My Falcon was 'Three on the Tree', so to get as far in as possible, I'd hit the sand track at about 80kph in top, then to down to second and finally to first until lack of progress. We'd then be towed by a tracked machine to as close as possible to our work area.

I did a bit on that mongrel contract. Took some unremembered civil machinery in, following the previous trucks compacted tracks, had to get dragged out. Did a few days tipping, for a mate, in a c/o Benz. Oddly, the Benz was the most capable off road, of the multiple marques.
The trick apparently, was not to drive on another truck's tracks, the crust was firmer than the substrate.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Maybe if you were hamfisted. I had one as a company car, wearing the proper blue badge, never broke a door handle but wore the camshaft out.

They were notorious for breaking them. Maybe it had something weather related. I drove a lot of X* Falcons as cabs.

Originally Posted by DieselDan

I don't disagree about the sentiments around the ute, but it's a rebadged LDV T60, not a Great Wall.
LDV and MG are both brands of Shanghai Automotive (SAIC) and Great Wall/Haval is a separate brand (privately owned I think, so no CCP involved. Possibly.).

It's for exactly these sentiments of "that's not an MG!" that it is branded as an LDV here. Which, given LDV's commercial vans origin, makes a lot more sense than calling it an MG!

spade a spade.jpg Calling a spade a spade can get you in trouble now

I saw a MG ute which as pointed out are SAIC no matter what name badge gets on them. Still laugh at my dad when he heard I had a MG- He thought I brought a cool old sports car

One the Capt Dodgy side Toyota and others are not immune it seems "Japan's transport ministry raided the headquarters of motor giant Toyota on Tuesday, as a scandal over faulty safety data escalated.The world's largest carmaker has apologised for providing incorrect or manipulated data for safety certification tests.
The scandal has shaken the Japanese car industry, with rivals Honda, Mazda and Suzuki also admitting to submitting faulty data.
Toyota sold more than 11 million passenger vehicles in 2023."

On the software side "Mercedes-Benz is recalling 14,912 EVs in the U.S. to address a battery management system software issue that could cause a loss of drive power. The recalled vehicles include all versions of the EQS and EQE sedans, as well as the EQS SUV and EQE SUV, from model years 2023 to 2025, depending on the variant."

No such recall happening here ? Wasn't it a VW stopping on a freeway in Melbourne 10ish years ago killing a lady? Yep "Melissa Ryan, 32, was killed on Melbourne's Monash Freeway in January 2011 when her Volkswagen Golf was hit from behind by a truck. The truck driver told last year's inquest into her death that Ms Ryan's car stopped suddenly with no brake lights"

RIP Mrs Ryan!

Names are fudgeable at times. Landrover "As of June 1, the UK-based luxury automaker is officially known as JLR. You can probably guess where the three letters come from, but this is more than just an abbreviation of a slightly awkward title. It's a new corporate identity that sees iconic Land Rover models transition to brands under a new JLR umbrella, on the same footing as Jaguar.
We first heard about this change in mid-April, presented as part of JLR's $18.6 billion Reimagine strategy"

Its a lot of money to change a name! Done by deed poll here on OZ it might be cheaper

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

spade a spade.jpg Calling a spade a spade can get you in trouble now

I saw a MG ute which as pointed out are SAIC no matter what name badge gets on them. Still laugh at my dad when he heard I had a MG- He thought I brought a cool old sports car

One the Capt Dodgy side Toyota and others are not immune it seems "Japan's transport ministry raided the headquarters of motor giant Toyota on Tuesday, as a scandal over faulty safety data escalated.The world's largest carmaker has apologised for providing incorrect or manipulated data for safety certification tests.
The scandal has shaken the Japanese car industry, with rivals Honda, Mazda and Suzuki also admitting to submitting faulty data.
Toyota sold more than 11 million passenger vehicles in 2023."

On the software side "Mercedes-Benz is recalling 14,912 EVs in the U.S. to address a battery management system software issue that could cause a loss of drive power. The recalled vehicles include all versions of the EQS and EQE sedans, as well as the EQS SUV and EQE SUV, from model years 2023 to 2025, depending on the variant."

No such recall happening here ? Wasn't it a VW stopping on a freeway in Melbourne 10ish years ago killing a lady? Yep "Melissa Ryan, 32, was killed on Melbourne's Monash Freeway in January 2011 when her Volkswagen Golf was hit from behind by a truck. The truck driver told last year's inquest into her death that Ms Ryan's car stopped suddenly with no brake lights"

RIP Mrs Ryan!

Names are fudgeable at times. Landrover "As of June 1, the UK-based luxury automaker is officially known as JLR. You can probably guess where the three letters come from, but this is more than just an abbreviation of a slightly awkward title. It's a new corporate identity that sees iconic Land Rover models transition to brands under a new JLR umbrella, on the same footing as Jaguar.
We first heard about this change in mid-April, presented as part of JLR's $18.6 billion Reimagine strategy"

Its a lot of money to change a name! Done by deed poll here on OZ it might be cheaper

Must be a heap of dosh with the supply of (re) badges everywhere, not to mention bloody confusing.