Bought a car this week. Toyota hiace 1987 campervan, 2.2l engine with 250k km in odometer. 4 speed manual. Double bed in back with room for 3 persons to sleep. Runs well, so far.
Driving on a left side causes a little confusion in the beginning. It doesn't help that the blinkers are on the right side of the steering wheel and the windshield wipers are on the left side. Couple of times I have accidentally put on the windshield wipers when I was supposed to use the blinker. Roadrules are like in Europe except that you could suppose that in the intersection, when you're driving on a left side, you should give way to the cars who are coming from the left. Wrong, it's like in Europe as well so cars from right can go first. They have weird rules of using the blinker in the roundabout as well, but I'm still doing my research about it.
Human mind is difficult to understand. I remember to dreamt about buying a convertible here in Australia when I was back in Finland. When I got here, I was looking for a suzuki sierra softtop 4wd but luckily didn't buy one, because there's no room for your surfboard and it's not probably good car for travelling. Then I thought about buying a hatchback toyota corolla with a roofracks, which should be economical and you could get your surfboard on the roof. Thought of living in a small corolla made me to look for a station wagon("farmari" in finnish), which are very popular cars among the people who travel in Australia. The disappoinment is that even if you manage to get your 8.6foot surfboard in the car, it's not going to be very comfortable sleeping with it plus nobody else is not gonna fit in. The station wagons here in Australia are usually 3.8l V6s which are not very economical with their 12-15l fuel consumption. That's why I chose a van which has heaps of space and which should also be fairly economical. I hope I can still agree with these 'facts' after trying to travel over 15 000 km around Australia, equal distance than from Sydney to Helsinki.
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