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Vegie Cars

Back in June 2006 Aussie Motoring ran an article on Grease Cars – diesels that had been modified to run on used vegetable oil from fast food outlets. You can read the article by following the link. Back when Russ Egan wrote that article, Grease Cars were confined to the United States but now they’ve […]

Dashboards

Tesla Roadster Dashboard I don’t know about you but I’m one of those guys who likes to have lots of buttons and switches, gauges, dials, flashing lights and whirly bits on the dashboard of my car. There may be a bunch of computers driving my car for me but I want to at least pretend […]

Fuel Prices Around Australia

Well the inquiry into fuel pricing here in Australia has returned its predictable result and we’ll go on facing fuel prices that seem to exploit the Australian motorist. You would think that with three different brands there would be at least some competition but it doesn’t seem to work that way and no one in […]

The Greenest Car Makers

by Stuart Livesey I’m not sure who is the greenest car maker here in Australia … if fact you would have to wonder if anyone has actually compiled such a list … but in Europe, Peugeot tops the list as the greenest car maker followed by Fiat, Renault, Toyota and Honda. BMW and Daimler were […]

Chrysler to Cut Two Models in Australia

Earlier this month Chrysler in America announced that it would be stopping production of the Chrysler Crossfire and the PT Cruiser convertible. Of course by extension that means they’ll disappear from Australia too. The Crossfire was supposed to represent the “synergies” between Daimler and Chrysler for many Crossfire components were shared with the Mercedes SLK […]

Honda FCX Clarity – Leaving Nothing but Water Vapour

Just over 20 years ago Honda started thinking of producing a car that produced nothing but water vapour and now that car is about to be released to the public in the United States. The FCX Clarity is powered by an electric motor that draws its power from a fuel cell that converts hydrogen and […]

BMW Series 1 Concept

Here’s the latest concept car from BMW – it’s the Series 1 tii and it’s based on the BMW Series 1 Coupe. Points to note on the exterior are: optimised aerodynamics on the body with individual, distinctive design of the front air dam, side-sills and rear air dam fins along the engine compartment lid to […]

Robotic Vehicles and Hot Rods

In America the robotics group at the California Institute of Technology is setting up an armour plated Ford E-350 van to take part in the Urban Grand Challenge – a race for driverless vehicles. You’ll find some interesting pictures here Meanwhile here in Australia this is still enough to turn heads and get my partner […]

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