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  1. Under the Pump – Global Petrol Prices (Live Link).

    Source, the AGE newspaper 24-May-2008.

    $AUS Per Litre.

    Australia (Melbourne) ………………………..$1.49c

    Canada……………………………………………...$1.45c

    Chile………………………………………………..$1.33c

    China……………………………………………….$0.80c

    Denmark……………………………………………$2.45c

    Egypt……………………………………………….$0.34c

    France……………………………………………....$2.25c

    Greece……………………………………………...$1.86c

    Hong Kong…………………………………………$1.32c

    Iceland……………………………………………...$2.31c

    India………………………………………………..$1.12c

    Indonesia…………………………………………...$1.02c

    Ireland……………………………………………...$2.03c

    Italy………………………………………………...$2.28c

    Luxembourg………………………………………..$2.08c

    New Zealand……………………………………….$1.59c

    Norway……………………………………………..$2.27c

    Russia……………………………………………....$1.04c

    Turkey……………………………………………...$2.62c

    Britain……………………………………………....$2.33c

    US…………………………………………………..$1.05c

    Venezuela…………………………………………..$0.04c

    P.S. Please don’t shoot the messenger, the above mentioned prices 'are as is' from the publication.

    I doubt the information in the newspaper is correct. As in Hong Kong, the petrol price is no where near $1.32c per litre.

    It costs AUD$2.20 per litre at all stations. I guess the 90 cents difference is the tax for the government.

    Still, I think Aust's petrol price is not THAT high.

  2. hello everyone,

    my friend's in hong kong at the moment and hes picking up a new bodykit for his echo ( hehe )

    and i want him to get me some stuff from hong kong, TRD grille and new rear bar and front lip,

    does the hk version of our sportivo ( runx? ) have the same front lip as ours? and with the rear bar which one do you recommend that fits our stivo skirts and the lip? can i get a different lip from the sportivo one?

    thanks!

    yes HK has the runX. i've seen quite a few. most are auto and are the pre-facelift tho, haven't seen the facelifted versions yet. quite a rare car in HK. some of them have different headlights. still the same shape as the prefacelift stivo, but running the H4 bulbs without the bulb cap. i know TRD HK still has the CF TRD front grille in stock (1 or 2). not sure about the bumpers. the other thing is. with the rear bumpers, most of them have the muffler cutout at the wrong side of the car, that's if u get JDM rear skirt/bumper with the cutouts. obviously u could mod your exhaust to exit the passenger side if u wanted. if u want rear skirts/bumpers with the muffler cutout on the correct side, u might have to try the europeans.

    Toyota Hong Kong does not sell the RUNX offically. The ones you saw were imported ones.

    :)

  3. My thoughts on oil ....

    1) The Toyota oil is made by ALMC (a combination BP and Caltex) of which is in Brisbane , they make a lot of oils to specification like Valvoline, BP, Caltex...... most oils are made there to the manufacturing specs. :)

    2) using non Toyota oil could void your warranty. Honda uses this trick, they can test it for spectrum in a lab. There are many S2000 owners with blown up engines (5-6 in Brisbane due to a H issue. None of them seem to be replaced on warranty, any excuse, a track day, wrong oil ...... :(

    just my thoughts.... B)

    Dude, I don't agree with you.

    It's stated in the car manual, (Corrolla manual, not sure it would be different in a Camry) , as long as we use the oil that follow the spec as specified in the manual, we will not have problem with the warranty.

    As I remember it should be in the "Do it yourself maintainence" section of the manual.

  4. Thanks guys. Excellent cruise, :D we had twisties both heading to and leaving Wollongong. Lots of twisties but some idiots were blocking the road. :angry: Thanks g.o.d (why don't you let me write the word, Mr words filter ?) that the coppers appears at the end of the cruise.

    Big thank you to Dave for leading us to Wollongong thru those roads and Blue_Stivo(not sure your name is Dylan? :P ) for the BBQ and those who organised the cruise. B)

    Can't post a pic.

    I'm the guy in the silver stivo other than Dave. B)

    Ken

  5. Hey guys,

    Yes i am ms_sportivo on the rollaclub.com site.  

    and no my car isn't black, it's silver.

    I'm just wanting to chat to people who love Sportivo's like me!!!

    :D

    Hi, Miss Sportivo. Welcome~!

    Why don't you pop up to our Sydney Monthly Meet!?

    We will have a BIG meet on this coming Sunday. We will crusie down to Wollongong and have bbq~!! :)

    Details of the cruise is here

    http://au.toyotaownersclub.com/forums/inde...topic=4372&st=0

    Hope can see you there~

  6. haha where the cars EVER like that in australia

    i didint think they were

    or am i missing the joke

    lol also my legs hit the steering wheel to

    ive got it titled up as far as it goes

    sea down as far as it goes

    and far back enough so i still have good arm control on the steering

    LOL maybe i need longer arms LOL

    I had the problem before, but after I got a set of sports pedal installed and get used to it, i can do "heel & toe" without any problem. :)

    I reckon we should get a lowered seat, eg SPARCO, group buy anyone?? :D

  7. ^

    i dont know what the exact colour of 6000k bulbs look like...

    but the road rules only allow yellow or white coloured bulbs, they dont want blue.

    if they see that they are obviously blue, you risk getting a fine :unsure:

    if brightness is what you are after, dont bother with these 'white/blue' bulbs...

    they arent going to be any brighter, they might even be less bright than stock...

    one option is to increase the wattage, but this isnt recommended as you may melt your wires.

    ive got Narva Plus50s in my car, they arent 'White', but they are much brighter than stock :)

    6000k is in WHITE, I got 7000k, a little bit in blue.

  8. We have too many old players I think. We need some more young ones to step up into the National team. Notice how the other teams have a mixture of both young and old... we're mostly old although i think our Under 21 team is doing pretty well at International level. Good signs for the future.

    It's a joy to see Australia in the world cup finally, especially after those dissapointing results in the previous qualifiers. It'll be an even better to joy to see them compete against the best in the world, whether they win or lose. I'll be waiting eagerly to see how the groups are formed. Let's hope we don't get put amongst the likes of Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, England, etc. But they'd be great matches to watch anyway.

    One thing for sure though, is that our defence needs work on to stand a chance against any of these guys.

    You can't reallye scape from the BIG names coz they will be SEED teams, so they are allocated to each group.

    Yeah, BigBum. The defence definately needs some work. They are too old and bloody slow ~~

  9. Wat video clip is that i dont think that i've seen that one before but would love to!!!!!Hey sumone post it up!!! PLEEAASSSEE!!! :blink:

    i dun think i have the one Azza's talking about. only got the one from best motoring that has 2 AE82's (Trueno's or Levin's) VS a Skyline GTR-R34.

    Aren't they the AE86s?

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