I commend your mate for listening to you and taking the plunge instead of the all too prevalent Honda or nothing
"disease". It's heartening to know there is a more affordable, and evidently unknown, quality alternative available.
It sounds like that dealer is under some sort of presssure to move a quota of Victa stock and can't have this local interloper putting a spanner in the works.
Absolutely ridiculous situation from a dealer of the same brand fhs!!
This embodies what goes on too often in Australia and makes me envious of the USA in these instances.

As an aside, is unbreakable an auto or relies in it's driver for the cog swapping?
I hired a manual version a little while ago and it was a surprising satisfying truck to push around.
But I have to add, the automatic version is fun also.


Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!