Tim Blair

Wow, very nice. Congrats Tim. My girlfriend and I were looking at them as well but we decided to go sporty with an Infiniti G35 Coupe.

Touareg is a very nice choice, good luck with it!

So... is this YOUR SUV or does it belong to your "family"?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4009850,00.html

It's a test car, Dash -- to afford a Toerag of my own, I'd have to marry a ketchup heiress.

I wasn't gonna say anything, but yeah they are quite expensive. Which is why I don't own one either heh.

Chin up, I hear the Hellmann’s Mayonnaise family has a eccentric widower who's looking.

I had heard that the 2nd row seats were uncomfortably small for anyone bigger then Umpa Lumpa size. True?

Torque = r×F = d/dt(r×p) = I dω/dt = moment of inertia times rate of change of angular velocity.

Torque gives you acceleration, power gives you speed.

Tim:

For those of us who are metrically impaired, the following link may be very helpful...

http://www.srtorque.com/torqcon/tcnm.html

Shit! Not cars again.

...and Tim gets *paid* to drive these things. Some people have all the luck...

Tim,

Ok, it can move Tasmania, but can it pull Michael Moore away from a buffet?

Jerry

Tim,
From memory I think the word 'Touareg' is derived from the name of an ARAB tribe from North Africa.
Fits really when you think about it; the harsh terrain, blistering sun, roaring up those dunes & across those waddies.
I bet Rommel ran over a few 'Touaregs' on his scramble to El Alamein & back again.
The irony is delicious isn't it. One of our champions of the right celebrating ANZAC day by "picking up" a wankermobile named after an obscure Arab tribe manufactured by a company which started operations in Germany during Hitlers fascist regime on the basis of producing affordable basic vehicles for the common folk.
I bet you can't wait to take it Bush.

Jerry, no, for that you probably need an uprated M88 Armored Recovery Vehicle... but you probably need a Combat Engineer Vehicle first to break his grip on the table with its demolition gun's HEP rounds (they're only 165mm so it could take a couple...)

Take it Bush, Abdul? Howard I do that?

Why, it's obvious, Tim!

Just unhitch Tasmania, hook up to California, and push down on that long skinny pedal on the right.

If you'd drag Canada to the other side of the Atlantic while you're at it it'd be much appreciated, and Australia is welcome to take up residence in it's place.

;-)

Tim's macho rhapsodies about his phast car-driving are starting to sound ominously like Philip Adams and his bucolic phantasies about his pharm.
Enough, please!

David, you drive one of those new Minis, don't you? They're so cute.

Swap Australia for Canada? Only if we can bring the warm climate with us.

Plus: the US will be invaded by kangaroos.

And Australia will be invaded by deserters and unhappy movie stars. I think we win that exchange, but I feel awful guilty about it.