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@SidrahMemon1 @sundaszahra22 RANGE ROVER? have you even seen the range rover? this is apparently toyota fortuner. I am not PTI but stop this nonsense. People kill normal people so CM surely needs more security than you and me. they are running a system and thats not a joke.
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What is the plot of Dilwale?
This Mahindra Scorpio adopts SRK and a Tata Safari adopts Kajol. Villain (Pajero may be!?) likes Kajol and wants to marry her. But then her father Safari objects their marriage as Pajero is of Japanese descent (No offence to Japan!). So, Pajero dashes Safari and Safari dies. SRK, who is already in love with Kajol comes in his Scorpio, jumps in the air with 69.69 Air time (If you got what I did there! ;)) and lands on Pajero causing it's death. Kajol rejects SRK as he has murdered a Pajero! SRK adopts a Ford Endeavour and Kajol a Ferrari (Glam quotient!). 15 Years later, Varun Dhawan, whose father figure is a Toyota Fortuner, with his girl friend Kriti Sanon (Lets call it a Porsche) decides to unite SRK and Kajol after his dream where Leonardo DiCaprio says that "SRK-Kajol ,jodi, will break Inception records" (Yeah..? Bwahahahaaa...! Joke's on you Varun). In order to do that, Varun Dhawan have to make 106 Scorpios and 107 Safaris jump in the air and crash land as a tribute to both SRK and Kajol's Father figures. Just as Varun is going to pull off this Stunt, a drug dealer (Let's say a Camero as there was a Green Camero flip in the trailer!) interrupts him just for fun, causing severe damage to Fortuner and also to the Porsche. In the climax, it rains SUVs and Classy 4-wheelers causing crash and death of Camero and Villain. The End! Who cares about Plot, it's Rohit Shetty movie after all! with SRK in it. And Varun Dhawan. Peace.
What is it like to be a rich person in India?
According to me wealth is relative and rich or super rich cannot be exactly defined but I'll talk about a guy who according to Indian standards would qualify as super rich. He is a dear friend of mine and I'm very close to him and so I know his family's worth. His dad is into property business and easily would be a rupee billionaire. A little background: This guy, my friend, drives an Audi A6 owns a Toyota Fortuner and gets a few thousand daily as pocket money. He is extremely humble and has no airs about his wealth. We are friends since high school as we studied in the same boarding school and nothing has changed between us in the last 8 years. We are a group of 5-6 close friends and he is ,NOT, given any special treatment by anyone , in fact he is the one who is at the receiving end of most of the jokes (including practical jokes in public places which are very embarrassing sometimes) but never minds. He contributes the most whenever we go on a trip.(we all are in college and no one earns.) Most of the times its his car we roam around in, and he takes care of the fuel expenses and the best part is he has never ever even subtly hinted at the unequal contributions. Being rich just gives him the freedom from financial constraints while planning his future and that is reflected in his career choice. He wants to be an actor and though he is in no hurry to get a movie but even he gets tensed sometimes like us (normal folks). He has the same desires like us of good clothes, new cars ,etc just the brands are different. He is in a committed relationship with the same girl since the last 5 years and has never shown interest in any other girl. Even though our career choices are poles apart (I'm preparing for civil services) we still talk for hours at a stretch about our respective fields of knowledge and he listens keenly to whatever I talk about.( mostly international relations or society). ,I would conclude being rich or super rich doesn't matter and not all rich children are spoiled brats or snobs, all depends on the upbringing.
What does it feel like to have 100 million rupiahs monthly income in Indonesia?
I don’t earn that much but my parents do. I don’t know exactly how much they make - but they’re both entrepreneurs and have employees working for them (around 20–30 people) and based on our lifestyle, I’m pretty sure my parents make more than IDR 100 million per month. What does it feel like? One thing I know, it makes me very privileged. Both of my parents didn’t come from money, so they stepped up the ladder on their own for years. I watched, as I grew older, how we as a family of 4 improved our quality of life. We used to rent a 100m2 house for years. Our car was a very old red Kijang. I remember one time my parents had to sell some stuffs from our home because they needed to pay their employees (I think they didn’t have that many employees at that time, probably less than 5 people). Then business got better for my parents. My mother was finally able to bring more and bigger clients that come from the national army. They worked on many projects, from printing a lot of army books to (now) building a lot of army housing in many areas in Indonesia. In 2005, they finally purchased their own house, it’s near the house we used to rent but in better neighborhood. It was kind of a gambling because they only had enough cash to pay for the down payment (I think the down payment was around IDR 1 billion and the house’s price was around IDR 2 point something billion). But my mother liked the house very much they decided to just purchase it. The monthly mortgage payment was IDR 20 million (and as someone said in another answer, the monthly minimum wage in Jakarta is IDR 3 million, so imagine if you have to pay IDR 20 million/month JUST to pay for your mortgage payment). My mother is someone who takes that kind of a risk and believes in herself that she’s going to be able to do it. It’s the opposite of my dad. He worries a lot. So it’s kinda amazing to see them actually agreeing to purchase the house. It’s like a dream come true. In the old house we used to rent, there were only 3 bedrooms (1 for my parents and I, 1 for my brother (I couldn’t have peace with my brother if we sleep in the same room), and 1 tiny room for our living-in maid). Bear in mind that common middle-class family in Indonesia can afford a living-in maid rather easily considering they are paid very low (I think in 2005 they were paid IDR 500–700 thousand). We had one 21″ TV in the living room and 1 smaller TV in my brother’s room. It was a very tiny house but I grew up there until I was around 10 years old. When we finally moved to the new house, I was mesmerized with the cold, marble floors. There was also a mini-bar in the house. I couldn’t believe that my house had THAT MANY TOILETS. We have 6 toilets(!) in the house. We have a band studio, complete with the equipments (my brother and I used to play music and have our own bands). My mother had her own study in which she worked from dawn until evening. We had a quite big of a garage that could be parked by 3 cars. In my own room, I had my private bathroom with a bathtub in it. There was also a pretty decent sized backyard that could be turned into a swimming pool area had my parents wanted it to be like that. The old red Kijang? My father sold it. Now we have 4 cars (1 for each family member). My dad used to drive a 320i BMW, but now he drives a Toyota Fortuner (he still loves Toyota). My mother (rather her driver, really) drives Mazda CX-7. My brother drives 2015 Honda CR-V Prestige and I drive 2016 Honda HR-V Prestige. My parents also own 2 small pick-up trucks for business-related needs. To step up that economic ladder is… hard to describe. During my middle school years (around the time when I was 14) I still hadn’t realized that I now eat with ,that, golden spoon. I couldn’t grasp the absurdity of being picked up by my mother’s driver with a BMW car, and I couldn’t understand that my life had turned into a very different direction than before. It really dawned on me when I started high school. My group of closest friends used to joke around a lot and we do say brutal but honest words to each other, but they’re the ones who made me realize that I’m much more privileged than most of the people. I began to compare my friends’ house with mine, and I know I am luckier than most in terms of economical background. Now, when my family go shopping to the mall, we could shop until around IDR 20–30 million, ranging from buying lot of clothes, shoes, etc. For the past few years, we also had started buying more luxury products. I kinda taught my mother to do that since I think if you know which products to buy they will last years and have good prices when we want to sell them. My parents now also like business class seats better and we fly almost exclusively with Garuda Indonesia. It’s amazing to feel all of this luxury. But one thing I know for sure, money does give you a comfortable seat in life, but not necessarily happiness. All the stories I mentioned above must seem pretty nice for you guys. But I haven’t told you about the time when my mother was depressed for some time because she felt that everyone near her just wanted to be near her because of her money. I remember my father calling me into my parents’ room, and he told me to try to talk with my mother, but she didn’t give me any response. I remember I was being told by my family member that my mother then rented a room in a hotel just to be alone, not telling anyone but herself. She didn’t want to talk to anyone and didn’t response to anyone. I was still a child back then, but I think my father went to pick her up. I don’t know exactly how things changed, but after that we returned to ‘normal’ again. It was scary when I was still a child to watch my mother not being her usual self, and I was afraid that she would lose her mind. My father’s ethnicity is Batak, and so we have a very, very big family (whom we meet once in a few years or so). A lot of these people come to our house, being good and nice, and then asked my parents to lend them some money (only a small portion of them will then return it). One family had to pay for their children’s school tuition, the other wanted to start a small business, the other one wanted to get married but couldn’t afford to pay the catering, etc. My mother’s closest friend also used to sell her a lot of stuffs, from gold necklaces to insurances, which at the end my mother realized that her closest friend was taking a huge advantage of her. This all made her very stressed as she couldn’t see anyone who wanted to be with her just for the sake of being with her. I didn’t understand any of these things back then and I regret that I couldn’t help her then. I am happy to say that today my mother is a quite a happy woman and we are kinda best friends who go to salon together almost every week and have a chit-chat like best friends do. I tell her all the time that she doesn’t have to give any of her money to anyone if she doesn’t want to, and that she doesn’t owe anyone anything, and to be wary of people who try to take advantage of her. To have IDR 100 million income per month is not that big, if you were my mother. She pays many of my cousin’s school tuitions. The rest of my family is still in the lower/middle class range so she feels like she’s responsible for giving my cousins a better chance for their future. My parents also need to pay that many employees per month, so assuming with 20 employees that have average salary of IDR 4 million, they have to pay at least IDR 80 million just for the salary only. We also have 3 living-in maids now and 1 driver. Many people depend their lives on my parents’ business, so my parents have to always move and make money - because they feel like it’s their responsibility to see the people working for them prosper. My brother and I also depend a lot on my parents for money. My brother works with my mother (running the same business), so basically his money comes from my parents. Me, on the other hand, I have been working full-time with a quite good salary (IDR 7 million/month), and it should be enough for one girl to spend in 1 month. I am ashamed to admit that the luxury life I’ve grown quite accustomed to has made me quite a big spender. I’m used to buy IDR 1 million shirts when I shop with my mother. So with this salary, I couldn’t comprehend how to better manage my spending. My mother still gives me money (and she’s more than happy to do so) but I actually have a dream of earning my own money and not ask more from my parents in the future. At least now I make my own money even though my lifestyle is still being helped by my parents, but I believe in the future I’ll be able to support myself financially 100% and also give my parents some of it so they don’t have to always work hard. It’s a journey for the 4 of us and we’re not perfect. Even though it hasn’t exactly been very easy, we’re quite grateful with where we are now.
Which one will you pick, Toyota Fortuner, Kia Carnival, Mitsubishi Pajero, or Ford Endeavour?
You must be joking. The Kia Carnival is a an MPV and a FWDer to boot. For a vehicle with a wheelbase in excess of 3 metres, the Carnival is an oddity. I would stay away from all such vehicles (FWDers with WB exceeding 3 meters) because I believe that it is not good, robust engineering. Such vehicles are fine as urban commuters, but for the rough-and-tumble of Indian highway touring they leave much to be desired. Specially when going uphill on steep inclines (1-in-3 or more) such as I have often encountered in my travels in Uttarakhand. And specially if one encounters hairpins combined with such steep inclines! The principal reason for the Innova/Crysta success story (in my view) is the fact that Toyota has stuck to RWD for this model. Coupled with the fact that the Innova/Crysta is a body-on-chassis design (not monocoque like the Carnival), which makes it `far more durable, robust and abuse-friendly. About the other three in your list - Fortuner, Pajero and Endeavour - all are respectable and proper SUVs and you can make your own decision. I would choose the Fortuner without hesitation.
What's your "never again" car brand? Why?
BMW. I had a midnight blue 2009 550i named Hans. They ought to give these things away just to drum up business for the mechanics. When it ran, it was a beautiful thing. The rest of the time it was junk; a miserable, misbegotten, bottomless money pit that made the idea of bus travel seem enticing. “German Engineering” is a joke. The weather seal on the trunk failed when the car was in the car wash. There are computers located at the bottom of the spare tire well. The spare tire well is located beneath the trunk and has no weep holes. It filled up with water and $3000 worth of computers were immediately trashed, causing the car to behave like it was possessed by the devil. Why put delicate, moisture-sensitive components in a place where they are likely to get soaked if a seal fails? What the hell were those so-called engineers thinking? At 75k miles, the rear wheel bearings had to be replaced. WHAT? The cooling system is made out of plastic. PLASTIC! After a while, the plastic ages and decays and costs a fortune to replace. The expensive, fancy low-profile tires were constantly developing bubbles in their side walls. Very expensive shocks ($600 each) had to be replaced at 80K miles. The wonderful V8 engine leaked oil all over the place - replacing the seals cost an arm and a nut. Not only that, but straight from the factory it burned oil like some kind of dust bowl era Tin Lizzy. They claimed that oil consumption of 1 qt/800 miles was within spec. What new car burns oil in this century? I could go on and on. Owning the thing was like being in a terrible marriage. Just enough good stuff to break your heart over and over. At a little over 100K miles, I got bupkis for it in trade on a new Toyota Camry. The Camry is Novocain on wheels but it gets me there and back again without any drama. It’s a V6 with 300HP, so it’s not a slug either, just kinda uninspiring is all. I’ll take it. PS: The Big Beemer was the best highway car ,ever., I went on a number of 3000+ mile road trips in it without any problems at all. It was so comfortable that this seventy-plus year old carcass was not in the least fatigued or uncomfortable at the end of a thousand mile, 100mph day. It was a nightmare for city driving, though. I miss you Hans.
How can Tesla compete with GM and Ford when they start churning out similar cars?
*IF* ,GM and Ford were technologically and organizationally able to make similar cars - and at similar price/performance levels, then of course, Tesla would have a much harder time of things than they currently do. HOWEVER, there are no signs whatever of any of the big car companies being able to do that. To the contrary - instead of (for example) Ford being able to build an electric pickup truck to compete with the up-coming Tesla CyberTruck - they spent a small fortune financing another company (Rivian) to do that instead. In April 2019, Ford ploughed HALF A BILLION dollars into Rivian. Why would they do that to help Amazon, Cox Automotive and others to start a rival electric truck company if they felt themselves able to compete? The “Big 5” auto manufacturers have a lot of problems when it comes to switching production over to electric cars. CORPORATE CULTURE: Some of them (BMW, for example) are hell bent on building a standard car chassis (a “skateboard”) that can be kitted out as an electric, hybrid or gasoline vehicle. This is a disastrous way to build an electric car because you bring along all of the compromises of internal combustion engine vehicle designs into your electric vehicles. The only way to compete with Tesla is to design a vehicle as a no-compromises electric vehicle from the ground up. You only have to look at BMW’s electric MINI Cooper to see what a disaster that can be. (Would you buy a sporty hot-hatchback with a top speed of 92mph?) The problem is fairly ingrained into the way they work and the deals they’ve made with various unions over the past decade. The big car makers have “An Engine Factory” and “A Transmission Factory” and “A Panel Stamping Factory”…all of which have representatives in high level management. So when someone says “Hey let’s build an electric car!” - which has no engine and no transmission - you can just imagine how enthusiastic these other divisions are about that. Then, when you tell the Airconditioning division that you need their A/C unit to be powered electrically and not by the serpentine belt - AND that they need to work hand-in-glove with the new “Battery Division” (which doesn’t yet exist) to allow the A/C unit to also cool the batteries…you can imagine the fight you have on your hands. BATTERIES: Worse still - about half of the weight (and a LARGE fraction of the cost) of an electric car is the battery pack. A typical Tesla has around 4,000 individual batteries in its battery pack. Buying those batteries on the open market is a MAJOR problem because you’re competing for them against companies like Compaq who use them in laptops - and Chinese makers of those “Hoverboard” toys…there are only just so many batteries to go around. Tesla have contracted two big battery makers (Panasonic and LG-Chem) to make batteries for their cars WITHIN Tesla factories - and it’s looking like Tesla will soon boot out Panasonic and start making their own batteries. Could one of the Big 5 car makers do that? Well, with a major corporate re-org, they might…but then when they come to start up their battery production - they’ll need all of the very specialized equipment to do all of the chemical processing and so forth. None of them have that expertise - heck, they don’t even make their own 12 volt lead acid batteries. So - they need to go out and buy the equipment to do that. OK - so who makes the machinery to make batteries? Turns out it’s a rather obscure company called “Hibar”…who were recently purchased by…do you want to guess who? It begins with a ‘T’…and it’s not “Toyota”! They’d also need huge supplies of Lithium and Cobalt…and the places where that stuff is mined in an environmentally sound way are all tied up with contracts from…um…now which company was that? Ends with an ‘a’ - and it’s still not “Toyota”! The remaining lithium mines are HORRIBLE places with really nasty environmental track records…exactly what you DON’T want when you’re trying to appeal to the tree huggers who buy electric cars. So even building a battery factory would be a nightmare. SELF DRIVING: The other problem the Big 5 car makers have is with the whole self-driving thing. You can see them rushing out features like “advanced cruise control” (which is basically just regular cruise control with a thing that slows the car down if a camera or radar signal beamed from the front of the car detects another car too close in front. Also “lane centering steering” - which either uses a camera to look for the white lines and a SIMPLE AI program to figure out how to stay between them. Cadillac even has one that uses a high rez map to do that and can only use the feature on freeways. It’s fairly clear that they are all WAY behind on self-driving. Most estimates are that they are 5 years behind EVEN IF they go to Waymo or Uber or Apple and buy their expertise. CHARGING NETWORKS: Tesla has spent a ton of money on their supercharger network. Their technology is ahead of the curve - the chargers themselves are capable of pushing more energy into the cars than the cars are able to accept. The latest generation can charge at “1000 miles per hour” - but current generation cars are only able to accept that charge at maybe 500 miles per hour…especially with the lower-end models. Tesla have offered the opportunity for other car makers to use Tesla chargers - but in order to do that they have requirements on the car designs to allow them to interact with the charger safely. So far, not one other car company has signed up for that. Other car makers have various public chargers that can be used. Tesla cars can ALSO use those chargers. So right now - Tesla owners have a MUCH larger set of charging options - all of the public chargers PLUS all of the Tesla chargers…of which there are a hell of a lot. But the problem with public chargers is that they cannot interact with the car to do things in a smart way - so this is a problem for the other companies. Porsche have done things like installing their “own brand” chargers at Porsche dealerships - but that’s a joke…there aren’t enough Porsche dealerships on the planet to come close to solving the problem. BRAND AWARENESS: This is a tough call. If Tesla continue to be perceived as the best there is in the EV world then their brand awareness is over-the-top good. If the Big 5 car makers continue to make “meh” vehicles that aren’t exciting - then beating Tesla on brand awareness is impossible. Tesla took a car and had SpaceX launch it on a rocket to Mars…there is nothing the Big 5 could to to match that kind of awareness. But the Big 5 car makers have brand awareness for their existing brand names. When the “Electric Hummer” comes out - there is an entire audience of customers who will wake up and pay attention. But it’s also possible for them to look too desperate - so when Mustang enthusiasts hear “Electric Mustang SUV”…they first recoil in horror, then they laugh, then they are horrified that this bizarre thing gets stuck into their Mustang owner’s club gatherings! So I feel that trying too hard could cause a negative reaction. BMW’s electric MINI Cooper is definitely like that…a sports car that can only go 92 mph simply reinforces stereotypes about how crap electric cars are…not a good thing! CONCLUSION: So Tesla will certainly win on software, self driving, over-the-air updates and charging technology. Not doing advertising, not having car dealerships also helps because it keeps prices lower than they would otherwise be.
If I got lost on an African safari and came face-to-face with a growling lion, what should I do to garner the best chance of survival?
I will tell you the secret to surviving an encounter with a lion that I learned from a seasoned safari guide. But first a joke that an American lawyer in Zimbabwe told me. Two lawyers are camping out on the savanna on their first trip to Africa. One lawyer wakes up in the tent to see his lawyer buddy frantically lacing up his running shoes. "What are you doing?" he asks his friend. "There's a lion outside the tent." "Are you crazy? You can't outrun a lion." "I don't need to outrun the lion. I just need to outrun you," says the lawyer to his friend. Actually, the joke is on both of them. If these two lawyers knew what they were doing in the bush, they could both have survived their encounter with the lion. On my first walk-around in lion territory, our guide who was a seasoned expert coached us on what to do in the unlikely event that we were charged. He had a rifle and he told us that he would use it to kill the animal if necessary. However, we could prevent that from happening by following a very simple protocol. If coming face-to-face with a hostile lion in the bush, ,the most important thing to remember is not to turn and run,, as that is sure to elicit the lion’s predatory instinct to charge and pounce. Instead, you continue to face the lion and slowly back away to a place of safety, such as your vehicle. Before we went out, he begged us not to make him kill any animals by breaking protocol and by way of illustration told us a story about a group of tourists he led years before. Encountering a lion in the bush, the animal behaved exactly as predicted, by showing only mild interest in the group of tourists. The guide instructed the group to slowly back away in the direction of the Land Rover. Then the lion did something uncharacteristic and began to charge. Only by standing his ground and raising his rifle was the guide able to halt the lion’s charge. Once more, he instructed the group to back away and at that point, the lion charged again. This happened two more times, causing the guide to wonder why the lion so stubbornly refused to follow protocol. After the fourth charge, the guide turned ever so slightly towards the group to coach them through the situation. It was then that he realized he was alone on the veld facing the lion. Every time he started to back away, two more of the tourists lost their nerve and ran back to the Land Rover. Fortunately, it was now just the lion and the guide on open terrain, and he was able to back away without having to harm the animal. You would think that after hearing such a sobering story and spending time on foot with such a wise and experienced guide, I would know how to conduct myself around lions. Not so. On two occasions I have been charged by lions and while I survived both encounters, it was not for a lack of stupidity on my part. The first time was completely innocuous, as it happened in a protective enclosure called a “boma” with this cute little guy named Brian the Lion… Brian was an orphaned lion cub who was being prepared for reintroduction into the wild. He was as playful as a kitten, licking me on my hands and arms with a tongue that felt like 220-grit sandpaper on my skin. He was not tame, only young and partially habituated to humans. So what do I do once I’m finished petting him? I stand up and turn around to leave. Pounce! That cute little pussycat weighed close to 100 pounds, which I learned a moment later when I felt his full weight on me. Later, one of the naturalists running the program explained that the moment I turned my back, I looked like prey to him and instinct took over. She said I was lucky to leave the boma with just a scratch on the back of my calf. Here’s a picture of a beautiful lioness taken from our Land Rover on Fothergill Island in Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Believe me, you never want to get this close to a lion on foot in the wild. At this range on foot you are in her space and she is not going to tolerate that. The curious thing is that if you are inside or in any way attached to a vehicle, she probably won’t mind because she doesn’t really see you as the one living creature on the planet who poses a potential threat to her: a human being. Even up close, like we were when we took this picture, she sees you more like a part of the big metal thing with wheels you seem to be attached to and doesn’t really mind so much. Once when my in-laws were visiting from the US I took my father-in-law for an early morning game drive in my South African-manufactured Toyota HiLux. Spotting several vultures circling the sky a few miles off, I decided to investigate and soon found several lions on a young giraffe kill by the side of the Zambezi River just below Victoria Falls. This was a very privileged sight, as lions don’t often take giraffe. When we arrived, I gave my father-in-law the standard lecture for up-close lion viewing: NEVER GET OUT OF THE VEHICLE. Then we settled back to watch the spectacle of feeding lions from the safety of the HiLux. After about fifteen minutes most of the other lions wandered away, leaving one lone lioness like the one above. At this point, I decided I should try to get some pictures of the lioness on her kill. Not satisfied with the angle of the shot through the window, I had the bright idea of sticking my torso out the window, sitting on the sill with my legs inside the cab. That was fine, because to the lioness I still looked like part of the big metal thing with wheels. No problem… Until my father-in-law decided that if I could stick my body halfway out of the truck to shoot some still photography, he could get completely out, to shoot in video. The moment he opened his door and stepped away from the truck, the lioness roared and charged, coming very near to pouncing on him. With his camcorder running at the time, he came very close to being one of those posthumous Youtube sensations whose folly in the moments leading up to death is recorded for millions of people on the Internet to marvel at. I wish I could claim that my father-in-law was the only stupid one that morning, but not so. The realization that there were actual humans so near her kill was making the lioness nervous, and I decided to get out of there. I put the HiLux in reverse, but we went nowhere as the wheels started spinning in the sand. No problem, I’ve got 4-wheel drive! Did I mention that our African-made HiLux had the old fashioned manual locking hubs that require you to get out of the vehicle and manually turn the hub on each front wheel in order to engage the 4-wheel drive? A sensible person driving in the African bush would have done that prior to going off-road, which is normally what I did. This morning, however, in my haste to beat the sunrise, I had failed to do so and was subsequently faced with a dilemma. The lioness was not going to leave her kill any time soon. That meant I was going to have to get out of the truck to lock the front wheel hubs. In the meantime, the lioness was on high alert, pacing nervously in front of the giraffe carcass. Very slowly, I slipped out of the driver’s side window and clinging to the body of the truck, I inched forward and locked the front right hub. Then I got back in and crawled over my father-in-law and out his window to do the same on the left passenger side. We had many laughs that night safely back at the lodge, but not before having a very similar and even stupider get-out-of-the-vehicle incident with a charging bull elephant. Of these two mammals, by the way, a charging elephant is much the greater danger, as are hippos and Cape buffaloes. Lions are basically big pussies. Most of those we encountered in Zimbabwe looked like this… or like this… Yes, they are doing what you think they’re doing. An elephant, on the other hand, if he decides to kill you will just go ahead and do it, whether you are in a vehicle or on foot, running away or walking slowly backwards. The lone males are big and angry and much more frightening to encounter in the wild than any pride of lions. (Note: all photos were taken by my wife Tina or me).
Why is Toyota partnering with Maruti Suzuki in India?
Mainly because they are struggling to sell hatchbacks in the Indian market. Etios and Etios Liva sales are a joke. They need something more competent to stay afloat. Right now their primary business runs off of Innova and fortuner.
What is an experience you had at a car dealership you’ll never forget?
My favorite (I’ve got a few) is a feel-good story. My husband and I had been together about 15 years when I decided that it would be “fun” to buy him a new (well, new to him) car. When we first met, they’d just started the Lexus December-to-Remember with the red bows and he’d casually mentioned that he’d love for somebody to do that but it’ll never happen, of course. 15 years later we’re fortunate enough that I can do it for him. I’m checking out all the makes and models, knowing that he’s partial to Lexus but I love shopping. The local Lexus dealer had a slightly used graphite with gray leather interior in the showroom that I was considering. Told the salesperson (an amazing guy named Alan that remembered me from a prior visit long ago) that I wanted to think about it and make sure I had all my ducks in a row before I bit the bullet. Monday came and somebody had bought the car. Darn it all, my fault for being indecisive. I kept an eye out and a month or so later a black model with tan interior came onto the lot. I drove out there immediately to take a look and decided to buy it, without even taking a test drive (the guy who’d traded it in apparently took the key home or some such. I didn’t even open a door, just looked through the windows.) “I’ll take the car but I’m relying on your reputation as a dealership and Lexus’s reputation as a higher end car with a history of reliability. And I want the carpets cleaned so that spot on the back one is gone. For what I’m paying, I want it spotless.” I had my granddaughter with me (she was about five) and it was getting late so to keep her happy, and me paying, they ordered in a pizza and we had a “pizza party” while we filled out paperwork and signed everything what seemed like five times over. I’d driven my car, not my husband’s, so I couldn’t make the trade in that day. (They honored the trade in condition as I’d told them for our Toyota Camry, sight unseen; they obviously wanted me to take home that Lexus.) We agreed that I’d come back Monday, two days later, so they would have time to detail it (it had just been traded in) and add the paint mask I’d requested. (Big black car, darn straight I want that front end protected from rock chips for as long as I could.) They’d have it all ready with a big red bow on it when we got there. Monday comes and my husband and I get off work. He knows something’s up because I’m on time and ready to go. “You didn’t buy a boat did you?” “Nope.” “You didn’t by a car, did you?” “I can neither confirm nor deny that one.” So I give him turn-by-turn directions to the dealership. For the first time ever, there is no traffic on the road and we make good time…aaaaand the car isn’t on the showroom floor yet because we’re early. We pull in and my husband, light of my life and sweetest guy ever and who adores me ***and who is not a jerk*** turns to me and says “Honey, I wish I’d known you were going to do this. I would have given you some money so we could get a nicer car.” (I’d just started working again and had a separate “fun money” account for fun stuff…like a new car for my pretty awesome husband. I’d managed to save for a decent down payment.) We’d been looking but the ones he was looking at were the smaller ES, whereas while he wasn’t with me I was looking at the LS - the big, black executive car rather than the smaller daily driver. I knew the LS was a dream car for him and I wanted to get him his dream rather than a lesser one. He figured all I’d have had saved at that point was enough for a smaller car with few options, but together we’d be able to get him something nicer. Oh, ye of little faith. I worked hard for that credit score. We walk into the dealership to find the space empty where his car is supposed to be with a big “SOLD TO (husband)!” sign (the red bows were locked up somewhere since it was only October.) The sales rep who finished the transaction sees us, comes up to my still unsure husband and slaps him on the back, all salesman jocularity. “You’re going to love this car! The Vice President of Nintendo drives one just like it.” and “I’ve seen plenty of husbands come in to buy cars for their wives, but this is the first I’ve seen where a wife is buying a car for her husband. You must be a heck of a husband! haha!” (and another manly backslap in camaraderie.) My husband is thinking “They’re sure making a big deal of this sale. Sure is nice of them.” They pull out an SUV and put it on the sales floor. My husband, thinking that I bought him a “matching but smaller” SUV starts wandering toward it, when he notices another couple also walking toward it, with much more determination. “So, you didn’t buy me an SUV. Phew! Thank goodness. I was worried there for a minute.” We’re waiting a bit longer when a long, low-slung black Lexus LS460L pulls around and is parked out front. “Now THAT is a Lexus.” says my husband, with some dreamlike envy for whomever gets to drive that car home. “Honey, that is YOUR Lexus.” I respond. He, in shock, got the tour of the car and its features, and was speechless the entire drive home. We still own that car, ten years later, he still pets the leather interior, and he refuses to trade it in. He will own it until it catches fire. His words. I did good. *** (As a follow up: when I asked him what he wanted for Christmas, he said “You’ll never be able to top that car. So…I bought him a car cover. With a note that read “You said I’d never be able to top the car. Here’s proof that I can.” When he started joking that he still hadn’t gotten the red bow experience so I’m going to have to do a do-over, I went to the dealership and bought a small model of the same car I’d bought him and had our granddaughter leave it in our driveway, wrapped and in a bag with a big red bow for his birthday, in the pouring rain, (poor kid was so confused) just so I could say “You said you wanted a Lexus in the driveway with a big red bow. So here ya go. You got your car, I managed to *top* your car and now here’s the Lexus with the red bow in the driveway. I’m done now. Happy birthday. I do love you, even if you are a jerk.” Or words to that effect.)
Have you ever heard something commonplace and inexpensive in your own country described as a luxury by a foreign person of similar means? What was it?
It wasn't described as luxury by them, but they thought I was spending a ton of money, and even offered to share the expenses. A few years ago I had two American friends visit me in Venezuela, where I was born and raised. They where there to spend a couple of weeks and, not wanting to waste any time, I took them in outdoor trips to see two of the most wonderful national parks you could ever imagine. The first trip we made was to the “Gran Sabana”, one of the oldest places in the world, where movies like “Up” have been inspired, and about 15 hour drive from my town. That being said, we stoped several times to refuel my Toyota Land Cruiser (95 l gas tank), and on the last stop before getting to the park we even filled two extra 30 l gas canisters (gas inside the park is hard to find and the distances are enormous). The second trip was to the Cinaruco river, very close to the Colombian border (12 hour drive from home this time), to go fishing for the mighty Peacock Bass, spending a mere 3 days on the campground and using outboard motors that also chug on gas. I can't give you the exact amount of liters of gasoline we spent in those two weeks, but as you can imagine it was a lot. We had shared al other expenses, food & booze mainly, but none of us had thought of gasoline. Just before taking them to the airport for their trip back home they hand me a couple of hundred dollars, “For gasoline, you must have spent a fortune” they explain ashamed. I crack laughing and tell them it’s no problem and they should keep their money. They insist on me taking the money and I agree on taking $1, explaining to them that they are already paying for over a year of gas with that $1 bill. Gasoline in Venezuela is subsidized by the government, it is a stupid measure based on Venezuela being the country with the largest oil reserves in the world; even more stupid is that most of that gasoline is imported, we do not produce it. So yes, with $1 you could fill a 95 l gas tank every week for over one year, and still have some money left… My friends left very confused, and they even joked about moving there only based on low gas prices…
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Does Toyota Fortuner has Screen Size（inch)?
Yes, Toyota Fortuner has Screen Size（inch), which are: 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 VRZ AT 4x2, 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 VRZ AT 4x4, 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.7 SRZ AT 4x4.
Is Toyota Fortuner available in Instrument Cluster?
Yes, Toyota Fortuner is available in Instrument Cluster. The available Instrument Cluster variants are: 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 AT 4x4, 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 AT 4x4 (IMP), 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 VRZ AT 4x2, 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 VRZ AT 4x4, 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.7 SRZ AT 4x4.
What is the Front Brakes of Toyota Fortuner?
Here are the Front Brakes and variants of Toyota Fortuner:
Variants 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 AT 4x4 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 AT 4x4 (IMP) 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 VRZ AT 4x2 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.4 VRZ AT 4x4 2018 Toyota Fortuner 2.7 SRZ AT 4x4 Front Brakes Ventilated Disc Ventilated Disc Ventilated Disc Ventilated Disc Ventilated Disc
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