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Surely, there is some kind of transportation there and back... you'd think. I always drive though..

around 140 yen to 150 yen per litre.

Hey...what's the status of the Keno-do connecting Ebina to the Kanetsu...? Has that section finished I wonder..

Wha.....? Back down here...? Buuummmm...merrrr.

Ooooppp......Trouble in paradise..?

I have driven diesels for the past 20 years while in Japan. Love em... I also do a lot of the engine work myself. Mr Wiggles is right about diesel fuel having more stored energy than petrol but that's only one factor. Torque comes from stroke and the longer the better.......hows that for a loaded statement.. The greater offset on the center line of the crankshaft means the longer the connecting rods which can exert more force on the bottom stroke. And that translates to lower RPM's as Snowdude mentioned. Another factor is compression. Diesels are designed to run with way high

Yep..Tubby.....you're livin the wet dream..

Spiders and I have a mutual understanding. I hate mosquitoes while they love them....so we leave each other alone.

Sadly ironic...

Here he is skiing in Japan. http://vimeo.com/5038817 "Free and Stoked" .....yaah...

I thought it was a couple marines..

First thought...upon seeing that hair-"do".....

Meh...didn't amount to much really. Sunny and WARM now...

Wind is getting stronger by the minute.. Storm shutters are banging away... I'm always more worried about this mountain right behind us. Visions of that slide in Hiroshima.

Pissing here but wind isn't too bad....yet.. That little typhoon pin point and path on the news are heading right here..

I was making the point that they are pretty cheap....thus the manual and v6. A 1HZ and auto trans would bump that up to what they are paying for them in Aus..... somewhere around $55k. Hell, even a Prado or FJ Cruiser is $40k..... That 6.6km/l would be with a tail wind.... real world will probably be around 5 or 5.5.. No Cruiser has even gotten good mileage..

Check.......check.....check........ oh hell, just check them all... Thanks JA.....

I saw that. I want! The originals did. Guess they figured not enough demand for the re-make. (Don't suppose there's a hybrid version, either?) Interesting that a 2004 (last year of production in Japan) 70 Series with a 1HZ diesel with 100K kms is going for what a new one with the gasser V6 costs....crazy huh... The 1HZ is one of the best motors ever produced. With regards to demand it's strange that even though the two new 70 models only come with a gas V6 which aren't popular with the hardcore crowd, BUT also only come with a manual transmission which are a plus to t

Ahem......new.....ahem..........70 Series LandCruiser.... If ONLY they came with a diesel..

Ya...we really got smashed here in Ito especially immediately here in Usami by a tornado that formed. I lost a car and had $8k worth of damage to another. Also, had a bunch of damage to the side of the house from roof tiles flying off the neighbors house like frisbees. The car I lost was crushed by another neighbors roof flipping over on top of the car.

It's on the same course as the one that really F'ed us up a decade or so ago.

Come on....which model now...? If only the flat deck model came in 4wd...

I do like the news guys standing 5 kms away wearing the helmets while other people are just walking around on the background helmet-less. Another typhoon is on it's way up .... so we should be treated with similar fun and games in front of Shijuku station...

Oh yes....She's... .... nummy..!!

Some of the stories coming out now. People beaned by basketball sized rocks falling at 350km/h.......like a shower of mortar shells and nowhere to hide.