Long Term Drive: Toyota Mark X
Published: 20/08/2025
Back in the beforetime, when I was living in Japan, I discovered something curious about my local supermarkets: the main one nearest my house (Kansai Super) would specialise in certain items, selling at very cheap prices while the rest of its range was much pricier. The other one, Super Tamade, was a little bit more […]
Long Term Drive: Mercedes-Benz E400 Estate
Published: 6/08/2025
The pics with this article are straight off my phone due to time constraints. I am definitely not a photographer. As you know, dear reader, I am on a long-term mission to single-handedly re-populate Australia with good quality station wagons, and given that Japan gave up selling them in the 2000s to instead bless us […]
A quick lap of Fiji: Part 1
Published: 26/07/2024
Having recently tied the knot, my new bride and I headed off to Fiji for 8 days for our long-awaited honeymoon. Mrs Chef owns a number of businesses herself, so between the two of us, 8 days of enforced relaxation without a laptop in sight was as close as we’d get to heaven on Earth. […]
Long Term Drive: Audi S6 Avant
Published: 7/07/2024
With each passing year on this earth, I have a growing fear that I am becoming slightly dull. Life seems to take on a certain monotony, and my adult kids remind me that I am recounting the same stories over and over, as though I’m mentally perilously close to a one-way trip to the retirement […]
Long Term Drive: Nismo Note
Published: 15/04/2024
With interest in electric vehicles increasing during the COVID winter, it was obvious that it was a niche I needed to explore, even if just from a business standpoint. But how could I sell EVs if I didn’t have my own personal experience with owning one? I’m sure many of you reading this have fairly […]
Long term drive: Mercedes-Benz E350 Estate
Published: 21/01/2024
I feel a bit dirty writing this: I’ve just imported a Mercedes-Benz from Japan, and apparently, according to my self-diagnosis at least, I am still of sound mind and body. Before you stop scrolling and move on to MCM or Noriyaro, hear me out on the reasons why I ended up at this point. I […]
The Blade Trilogy – Part 3: Cutting Through The Continent
Published: 10/11/2022
Part 1 is here, if you’d like to start from the beginning. Part 2 is here It’s always good to have a plan, even if its a rough one. Having the flexibility to change those plans on a whim is very much a luxury, especially when it comes to work and travel. Working primarily online […]
The Boomerang Tesla: a Shocking Tale (Part 1)
Published: 4/10/2022
While Teslas may be fairly commonplace on Australian roads these days, back in 2014 the Tesla Model S was a crazy American electric car that was yet to be built in right-hand drive, and therefore hadn’t reached our shores. It was the era when you could add the letter ‘i’ to the start of any […]
The Blade Trilogy – Part 2: We were told there would be cake
Published: 15/09/2022
Preamble: It has taken me a very long time to write these up and I do apologise. Work Keeps getting in the way…. The events below took place in April/May 2021. Part 1 is here, for those that missed it. It’s not often a man clocks up a lazy half century of solar circumnavigations. Once […]
The Blade Trilogy – Part 1: nOT sUitABle fOr austRaliAN cONDItIoNS
Published: 13/03/2022
I had no real intentions of owning a Toyota Blade Master. But this isn’t unusual. I seldom plan to own any of the assorted automotive oddities that occupy space in my garage, shed, driveway, other shed… Or wherever else I can fit them. They just happen as a side effect of importing cars for a […]
Journey to the Centre of the Earth: The Story Untold
Published: 24/12/2018
Like finding a well-hidden key and unlocking a side-quest, you have found your way into the mythical third chapter of our Shitbox Rally adventures that never made it to print back in 2012. There was no juicy blow-up in the corridors of High Performance Imports that caused this to happen, it was more that I […]
Proposed Changes to Import Legislation: A Turd Rolled in Glitter
Published: 17/08/2017
Grab a coffee and a Tim Tam or two; this is a long read! After four years, two changes of government, and two separate ministers, it has come down to this. Minister for Urban Infrastructure, Paul Fletcher, has announced the proposed changes to the Motor Vehicle Standards Act, which oversees which vehicles are eligible […]
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