Greetings from New Zealand

[vw1]

I'm a fossil preparator living in the hilly city of Dunedin, New Zealand.

I have long been a fan of rear-engined VWs, but over the years have built-up a strong respect for Toyota and its cars, to the point where now I almost wouldn't have anything else as a daily drive.

Between myself and my wife we currently have 8 cars, all but one being Toyotas. The exception is of course a rear-engined VW, an exAustralian 84 Caravelle project which had its Commodore V6 flicked and now has a Subaru Alcyone SVX EG33 engine and Porsche 911 Turbo trans, but is not running yet.

The others are:

-1989 Corolla CE96 diesel 1.8 van, fitted with rear seats etc and now sporting a 2C-T (2.0 turbo) from a 94 Camry Lumiere

1992 Estima Lucida 2.2 turbodiesel 3C-T manual

1993 Corona 2.0 CT195 diesel 4WD (extaxi)

1994 Camry Lumiere minus engine, awaiting stripping (the 94 facelift never reached Australia)

1997 Sprinter 1.5 (Corolla variant)

1997 Estima Emina 2.2 turbodiesel

2005 Camry Altise 2.2 (taxi)

In the past we have run an 86 Corolla CE80, Corona CT170 and the CT195 diesels as taxis, and they have done 600,000km easily.

Now I'm considering fitting a V6 into either a late-90s Corolla Touring 4WD wagon with 6-speed manual, or into a similar-aged Sprinter Carib 6-speed wagon (or buying a 6-speed to fit into the wagon if I can't find a dead-engined 6-speed car). Problem is, I can't seem to find ANY V6 type which doesn't have serious reliability issues, and this includes Toyota and Nissan V6s... anyway, I'd better post on this in another forum.

Another Toyota I'd like is a 100-series LWB luxury Hiace full-time 4WD with a big engine, say a Toyota V8, 5-speed manual...

[1stKill]

Welcome mate ,soooo many to choose from it would do my head in :D

i bet rego & insurance time is a bit scary ;)

[MRMPS]

Welcome mate,nice line of cars you got there,must be hard to choose what to drive day by day.lol

[Gab]

cool cars u can open up a dealership

[1rocky]

welcome :D :D

nice choice of cars .

one for every day of the week and a spare :D

[mbruce]

Welcome! :)

Are they all registered and insured?

I can't seem to find ANY V6 type which doesn't have serious reliability issues, and this includes Toyota and Nissan V6s...

Surely the Toyota 3VZ-fe and 1MZ-fe aren’t that bad?

2005 Camry Altise 2.2 (taxi)

I think you meant 2.4 for the Camry Altise.

[Zoran]

Welcome

[pimp-tivo]

welcome to the the club,

yer insurance and rego time would hurt the wallet no doubt.