After seven years, I bid farewell to my Defender today. As some of you may recall, we've been forced to move house and two Defenders and a 240 weren't going to fit. I also haven't really driven the Defender much in the last 18 months and it wasn't really a good car for the city. Anyway, there were reasons. She's off to a new life in Queensland and will hopefully bring her new owners a lot of joy. 
Okay, so @CarsOfFortLangley wasn't exactly cursing something bad, other than a mighty need and a lack of an MC licence, but still.
Hello Oppo, from sunny Perth, Western Australia. First let me say that I feel a little bit like a gatecrasher, as I am more or less completely new to Oppo. I did make an account a few months ago on the old site, made one comment, then discovered I'd been Kinja'd from the start and didn't get my burner code. I didn't make a new account because I'd lost my username, then things went south and Oppo migrated here to the hyphen. With this new start, I decided I would try again.
I read Jalopnik back in the early days of Spinelli, Leiberman, Wert and Davey G, so I remember all the classics like DAF vs. FAF, Cotomer Sevis, Bruce, Ekranoplans, Dragons etc. I took a hiatus for a few years due to life getting in the way, but eventually I found my way back, as I'd never really found a group of people who enjoy cars the way I do outside of Jalopnik, that is until I discovered Oppo. I've been lurking for quite a while now, as I really enjoy the content and although I'm not sure how much I'll be able to contribute, I do hope I'm welcome and can be a part of the community.
I heard 'You're The One That I Want' from Grease earlier on and it got me thinking. If that film were made today, it would be set in 2002 and Danny and his mates would be hotrodding a 1991 (edited, because I'm bad at maths) fox body Mustang. It made me feel old.
@pyroholtz Pretty sure that's a Lambo dude.
The Ioniq 5, which is a puzzler. It looks like a large hatchback in pictures, but I wasn't ready for it to be sized like a Tucson, if not slightly larger, albeit lower.
The one that really got me though was the Staria:
In my opinion, this is the most futuristic-looking new car motor vehicle on sale today. And if anyone ever says modern cars motor vehicles don't have large enough greenhouses, I'll be showing them this:
I really want to have a closer look at one of these, as it seems almost otherworldly.
@orneryduck That is a nice blue and those arches and flares are indeed a travesty. I'm actually glad it's not coming to Australia, as it would be the new bro-truck du jour.
@nth256 This is obviously non-North America specific, but I recently sold my old style Land Rover Defender for about 40% more than I paid for it seven years ago.
@bicyclebuck Very cool. GIS is amazing. I use the end product at work, but the people who truly understand it and set it up are operating at a higher frequency than I ever could.
@italia @ranwhenparked I don't think the fuel I put in it was an ethanol blend, but it's almost certainly gone bad. I should have known better.
Especially the ST. I'd be down for a green ST, but unfortunately crossovers are only allowed to be automatic in our market, unless they're the pov-spec price leader that probably only exists on a spec sheet.
@silentbutnotreallydeadly I've read about the Massey-Ferg and the Grillo and I've known the feeling. What concerns me is that the Volvo is now my only car.
@silentbutnotreallydeadly This is true. I replaced the locks in the car because the original keys were missing and that took forever, because ultimately I had to pull the dash and a Haynes manual only tells you so much. I thought it was just going to be paint and trim after that point, then the odometer stopped working and that's been a whole other ordeal.
@krustywantout I do not. It's maybe something to look at, but at this point, joining the RAC or getting it towed to a specialist is probably the best option.
@musashi66 Nice. I must check out that book.
@ranwhenparked Chuck in equal parts scotch and you have yourself a Godfather.
@kiltedpadre Happy Birthday Cornbread!
It's Saturday afternoon here and in my case, Miata is always the answer:
Made by Veil Brewing out of Richmond, Virginia.
