Resale Specifications

[DaveB]

Got snow in TAZ

And in Queensland

 

[bigleonski]

I was told at the drive day that Donny Gray is by far the most popular colour for orders so far
Really should just call it metallic black though

Donny Gray is growing on me, but my current 200
Is gray, and they don’t fair very well in the scrub and need washing all the time, and I’m not a fan of that.

 

[bigleonski]

And in Queensland
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People who live where is snows properly are probably laughing at that pic @DaveB
Once every 2 or 3 years for a few hours doesn’t really count.

 

[DaveB]

People who live where is snows properly are probably laughing at that pic @DaveB
Once every 2 or 3 years for a few hours doesn’t really count.

I hate snow and cold weather so I don't even go for a drive to see it when it happens.

 

[DaveB]

Donny Gray is growing on me, but my current 200
Is gray, and they don’t fair very well in the scrub and need washing all the time, and I’m not a fan of that.

The colour has absolutely zero input to scratching or getting dirty.
It is just you see the scratches and the dirt
White, black, pink or yellow driven through the same track will all be impacted the same.

Just like our hardwood floors when a visitor said they wouldn't have wood floors because they get very dusty.
I said carpet gets just as dusty but you can't see it, so you vacuum it less often

 

[bigleonski]

The colour has absolutely zero input to scratching or getting dirty.
It is just you see the scratches and the dirt
White, black, pink or yellow driven through the same track will all be impacted the same.

Just like our hardwood floors when a visitor said they wouldn't have wood floors because they get very dusty.
I said carpet gets just as dusty but you can't see it, so you vacuum it less often

Thanks for that insight Dave.

 

[DaveB]

Thanks for that insight Dave.

No problem.
I am going metallic black and will regret it every time I go on a tight track and every time I have to wash it.
Ceramic coating here we come.

 

[Nocrays]

Donny Gray is growing on me, but my current 200
Is gray, and they don’t fair very well in the scrub and need washing all the time, and I’m not a fan of that.

Yep dark colours are hard work I reckon. My Defender is (was) Oslo Blue and scratches up just looking it.

I’ve elected for silver this time. Good heat reflection, easier to keep clean, scratches hide easier. Plus looks really good contrasting with everything else dark grey/black.

 

[ECrider]

My Grenadier will be Sela Green and like all 'greens' will wash once perhaps twice a year.

 

[Eric]

I hate snow and cold weather so I don't even go for a drive to see it when it happens.

I live in Scotland, you mean there is some other sort of weather!!!

 

[bigleonski]

There’s this sort.
7pm 24c beautiful breeze, pizza and pinot looking over the cbd. Noice.


Hey it’s not a beach or a snow capped mountain range, but it’ll do me tonight.



Yeah I know, off topic, but so is everyone else.

 

[Tazzieman]

There’s this sort.
7pm 24c beautiful breeze, pizza and pinot looking over the cbd. Noice.
Hey it’s not a beach or a snow capped mountain range, but it’ll do me tonight.
Yeah I know, off topic, but so is everyone else.

25C at the top today. Peanut butter sandwich and a cuppa tea. Butterflies (Macleay's swallowtail) were on tap.
No roads up here

 

[globalgregors]

25C at the top today. Peanut butter sandwich and a cuppa tea. Butterflies (Macleay's swallowtail) were on tap.
No roads up here
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I see your sweeping vista and will check in from the NSW rainforest… Upper Allyn valley/Barrington Tops NP.
Back to the big smoke tomorrow though.

To the thread topic - I reckon that, like with the OD, resale will be impacted by associations of the vehicle with it’s use, and users.
Less about “does this Hilux have lockers?’ and more like “I want to drive the vehicle chosen by adventurers/utilitarians etc”.

This perhaps being the ‘Vanguards’ most crucial contribution.

 

[Tazzieman]

We dabbled in a spot of cooler sassafras and myrtle rainforest, not far from the start of the Needles track.

 

[globalgregors]

We dabbled in a spot of cooler sassafras and myrtle rainforest, not far from the start of the Needles track. View attachment 7800185

Oh, nice - I can almost smell it. Recent rains up here so the Gondwana was crawling with leeches, which isn’t mentioned in the brochure.

 

[Tazzieman]

Oh, nice - I can almost smell it. Recent rains up here so the Gondwana was crawling with leeches, which isn’t mentioned in the brochure.

Plenty of leeches in Tas , haven't got one on my eyeball yet.
Leeches just suck don't they?

 

[Fidei Defensor]

I hate snow and cold weather so I don't even go for a drive to see it when it happens.

Regarding the comments on Queensland "snow" here is a dose of reality from the good ol' US of A

 

[Max]

No problem.
I am going metallic black and will regret it every time I go on a tight track and every time I have to wash it.
Ceramic coating here we come.

I used a Karcher High pressure blaster at my Peugeot dealers yesterday that just ripped...a little on the other side of 2 thou but with your ceramic coating, I think it is all you'd need...no washing...maybe for a wedding...I will look into the ceramic, have used a product called Sharkskin in the past...happy motoring