Thread: Hide your rego no?

You know I've just spent the past 5 years living overseas.

Apart from some places in Asia most countries I visited had 120kph as the posted speed limit on motorways. Even in Germany as not all motorways are open-limit autobahns (in fact there are relatively few left).

UK / America / mainly Europe... though France is 130kph (just to be different).

The road conditions and the type of vehicles I saw on those roads were no different, better, or worse than ours.

As usual we (Australia) are procrastinating over how to do things "better" when the rest of the world has already taken the step ahead.

As usual we (Australia) are procrastinating over how to do things "better" when the rest of the world has already taken the step ahead.

I'd have to disagree. There are many points were Aus is trailing behind but there are lots of other 'things' that Aus is far more ahead than a lot of Europe.
Public health, welfare, education... not to mention anti-discrimination and accident prevention. Did you guys know that Australia gave women voting rights in 1902 and the so-called progressive, equal-rights-for-all Switzerland only in 1971?

Aus lags behind mainly on the technology front - the market is just not big enough - as the CEO of Toyota once put it: Australian market is chicken-**** compared to others.

... but the worst thing is our beloved government is NOT learing from other countries' mistakes...

i dont have a problem as i used to keep camila legal, every mod was done to the Vic roads specs and was always updated with my insurance company...... well i tried anyhow....

Originally Posted by Turtle61

I'd have to disagree. There are many points where Aus is trailing behind but there are lots of other 'things' that Aus is far more ahead than a lot of Europe.
Public health, welfare, education... not to mention anti-discrimination and accident prevention. Did you guys know that Australia gave women voting rights in 1902 and the so-called progressive, equal-rights-for-all Switzerland only in 1971?

Aus lags behind mainly on the technology front - the market is just not big enough - as the CEO of Toyota once put it: Australian market is chicken-**** compared to others.

Actually yes I did know that because that's where I spent a large part of my life for the past 5+ years. However if you want to compare Australia to Switzerland then I'd much rather have the infrastructure environment as well as the more truly democratic government system they have then the one we have in Australia.

The welfare system in UK is second to none - why do you think most illegal immigrants from Africa etc. head straight up through Spain and France to get there? In Switzerland if you lose you job then the gov. pays 80% of your income for up to 2 years whilst you try and secure another job - of course after that you get zip but if you can't get a job in 2 years then there is something really wrong... not to mention the health system in Switzerland is fantastic - sure you gotta pay for it (no "public" health you *must* have private health insurance in Switzerland else you are kicked out of the country) but hey hospitals aren't cheap and with the government regulating what minimum standards are offered you're pretty much covered. Education, well that's comparative. Ask anyone what they think of our education system and you'll get varying responses... and as it changes so much it's hard to grade from year to year. I've known plenty of smart Swiss / German / Austrian / British / Polish / Slovakian / Croatian / American people so obviously their education systems can't be too bad either.

Sure Switzerland didn't give the vote to women until the early 1970's - but is that the only reason to completely disregard everything else they have achieved and how much further in so many ways they are then we are? Sorry I just don't see that point as a valid argument. Different people in different countries react and response in different ways, they may have just been more cautious then other countries - do we know the entire picture? Yes? No? I sure don't, and I'm not judging them because of it.

Australia is far from lagging behind in the technology front - all the bells and whistles you can get on new vehicles in Europe you can also get on pretty much any new vehicle in Australia. A factory is a factory - the same car manufactures who spit out cars for Europe also spit out cars for the rest of the world so everyone ends up with the same gadgets. Any local factories then have to include those gadgets on their vehicles in order to "keep up" with their competitors... and so on and so forth.

Actually because we are such a small market (and I do agree this is true) then all this means is that we will have little or no influence on what new / other features are delivered with our vehicles and end up being "stuck" with whatever features the vehicle manufacturers decide. What this basically translates into is we get all the same gadgets that everyone else does, and no more. Why? Because it's easier / cheaper for the vehicle manufacturers to ship a "standard" set of base features instead of installing them afterwards as options.

What Australia is lacking behind in is keeping up with the standards. For example most "ADR"'s are based almost entirely on the Euro standards from at least a couple of years previous.

Also if you're living in Switzlerand you may want to change your profile location from saying you are living in the land of Cuckoo clocks, as the Swiss will be the first to point out that Cuckoo clocks actually originated in Bavaria (area of Germany) NOT Switzerland - however the Swiss are never ones to object to taking peoples money so they sell the Cuckoo clocks all over the place

Having said all that the biggest problem that Australia faces is that we are such a large country with a comparatively small populace. Our governments look overseas and drool over the amount of people in countries over there (even though we as the Australian public cringe at the same thought) because of the tax $$$ that each extra person can bring per square mile. It's because of this issue that our government should be thinking smarter on how to spend our tax dollars to make the most of what we do have, instead they spend all their time taxing the populace (I include mobile camera speeding fines in this bracket - I am much more leniant to stationary cameras) in every way / shape / form possible and offering stupid incentives for 16 yo's to get pregnant so they can increase the population base and hopefully one day reach their dream of overpopulation (and hence much more tax $$$ that will probably get spent more on their pay rises then on necessary infrastructure like water & power because by then it will all be sold off and they will claim it's "not their problem").


Tschüß

Is Australia 'behind' many European countries ?

There are plenty of Land Rovers over there.

Count the Landies you see today. ALso count the 'yotas.


Hmm, case made I think.

Hmmmmmmmmm case!!

one other reason not to post your rego, is thieves, Peter Luxon in Victoria had his cruisers all tricked up, turbo disesels, Roberts Air Lockers etc etc had an article in 4x4 and within week of article being in stands both vehicles stolen from his workshops and has happened to couple other people.

Sometimes it doesnt pay to advertise how beautiful your pride and joy is as it just makes others covet what you got

Originally Posted by cartm58

one other reason not to post your rego, is thieves, Peter Luxon in Victoria had his cruisers all tricked up, turbo disesels, Roberts Air Lockers etc etc had an article in 4x4 and within week of article being in stands both vehicles stolen from his workshops and has happened to couple other people.

In Luxon's case, it wouldn't have mattered if the plates were obscured or not. He's well known and so is his business.

I saw this tricked up dark-coloured D2 in A4WDM that looks OK. I know it hangs around a private school in Sydney's west near Parramatta. It might be worth grabbing. I'd take his other Landies as well.

Ron