THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

In most of SE Asia white is the colour of mourning but they still buy a lot of white cars. In India red is the colour traditionally associated with the warrior class and that was before the British red coats appeared. So if someone is driving a red car in India, get out of the way...they are looking for trouble. I guess we have that in common.

I've never had a white car. They must be the very devil to keep looking smart. I daresay they need cleaning at least once a year.

Cleaning cars is a form of occupational therapy for people who don't know what to do with themselves on a Sunday morning having found going to church uninteresting due to an overqualified intelligence and are unable to lie in bed until 1.00 pm because of their natural vitality.

Not a lot of fog or snow in Adelaide. Smoke maybe!

I had to replace my old vehicle at the end of last year - even 13 year old white Toyotas slow down after a bit! Spendius is right - white cars need to be washed about once a year. I now have a steel blue Mazda, and after less than 2 months - it's filthy - it's parked outside during the day and the dirt / dust really shows! I thought the darker colour would hide the dirt. Not happy, Jan!

Once EVERY year? You got OCD or sumpin'?

I have cobwebs on my external rear view mirrors, and I noticed some mold on the rear bumper. I cursed the day we were flooded and they eased water restrictions, but I resisted the temptation to wash my car. It will only get dirty again.

Yep, that's what you do with white cars, hinge.
Wash them once, every single year.
And hope for rain, between washes.

I think I've washed mine maybe 4 times in 11 years. Of course 3 months of rain a year makes it easier....

I'm concerned this blue car will need washing even more frequently. The dirt seems to just layer on it! The rain doesn't seem to be helping

Cairns, the perfect place for the lazy car washer!
You probably don't ever have to do it, if you'd rather not be bothered.

Well, 3 of the four times I did actually wash it were while I was in Canberra.

Hinge Head............. Canberra ??? You're getting politically correct it seems. Suppose your car would have dried quickly, what with all the hot air down there

Hinge has never ever been "politically correct".

Not towards his car, nor anything else ...

You can trust me on this

My new car is like an ice blue puppy I get to sit in...very comfortably I might add...it has high hard seats which I like.

It tries SO hard to be like a real growdy-up car...it makes me sort of sad for it.

It does the cutest little shy "peep" when it thinks it is being broken into....Korean politeness, I guess.

You just have to utilize the rain correctly!!!

It's many times worse than black. I used to see times when it had water spots on the prior car. Nobody else even knew we had had a rain.

What does the horn say?

Haven't used it.

My guess is it says "Excuse me."

Nah--it says "Do you come here often?"

In a butch voice or a little polite squeaky?

I saw a truck reversing into some school gates. Open ones, obviously. It came twice a week to shift the trash the school produced. Not the kids of course.

It had a warning device when in reverse which went "Danger. Vehicle Reversing." It was in a "speak your weight" machine style of voice only louder and more grating the nearer it got to where the large metal bins were stationed, just outside the rear service door, in a sturdy cage which only the Senior Dinner Lady, and Her deputy, had the key for.

30 or 40 times it went "Danger. Vehicle Reversing." as long as there were no hold ups presumed short enough for the driver to think of taking the damn thing out of reverse.

Cheap plastic bins without protection had proved inefficient.

I knew a chap who had a car horn which played a short tune. Beepibeepibeepi like but in English it meant "Do you come here often?"