List of Australian Car Clubs and Specialists, New Car Releases and Owners' Car Reviews for Aussie motoring enthusiasts
Is it possible to survive in your car if you’re caught in a bushfire? A recent study has found that temperatures inside a car can reach anything up to 300C as a bushfire passes over and survival in those temperatures is just about impossible. And when you realise that the interior of the car can […]
For the first time Ford has dropped behind Toyota in sales of motor vehicles in the United States. Now let’s see how long it takes Toyota to overtake General Motors. Meanwhile Toyota has now opened a production facility in Russia.
Australians have for the first time bought more than one million motor vehicles in a single calendar year. VFACTS sales figures released today by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries show that 1,049,982 cars, trucks and buses were sold in 2007; an increase of 87,316 or 9.1 percent over 2006. The previous record total of […]
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 […]
by Stuart Livesey I’ve been driving now for a few months shy of 40 years and in that time I’ve traveled over some pretty crappy bush roads and tracks. I’ve even had to drive over some fire-trails that simply take your breath away – imagine what it’s like to to not be able to see […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Queensland issued a wake-up call to Australian car manufacturers today when the Premier, Anna Bligh, announced that the state government fleet was about to undergo a major overhaul and public servants would be driving greener, cleaner vehicles. She said the number of diesel, hybrid, micro, light and small vehicles in the passenger fleet would be […]
Car insurance is something most drivers never want to talk about. It’s not exciting, it’s not sexy but it certainlyis expensive and necessary. One UK insurer has found a way to charge drivers a premium based on a number of factors measured by a little black box fitted to your car. Norwich Union has been […]
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 […]
… still hard to sell. While hybrid cars are beginning to appear in every greater numbers on our roads environmentally friendly hybrid trucks are an absolute rarity, even in the United States. In fact they are so rare that the world’s biggest fleet of hybrid trucks – owned by Fedex – only numbers around 95. […]
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 […]
Remember the good old days when you bought a new car and you could just jump in it and drive? You didn’t have to spend hours reading the owner’s manual before you could drive it home from the showroom and you didn’t need a degree in computer science to set the dashboard clock. Sadly those […]
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 […]
Well it was no secret that Ford wanted to sell Jaguar but now it’s official. Not only does Ford intend to sell Jaguar but it hopes to sell it very quickly. The managing director of Jaguar told journalists at the Tokyo Motor Show earlier this week that the sale of Jaguar was definitely on and […]
The Australian International Motor Show is on in Sydney at the moment and Holden has taken the opportunity to unveil a concept car fitted with a variable V8. Under load it will fire on all eight cylinders but at cruising speed the engine will shut down four of its cylinders to improve fuel economy. At […]
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 […]
The Victorian Government is in the process of preparing a law to protect new car buyers who get stuck with a lemon. You would think that manufacturers would be interested in looking after their customers but sadly that just isn’t the case. If you get stuck with a lemon you’re on your own unless the […]
The price of crude oil is on the way up again and we’re beginning to see the impact of that price rise at the bowser. It seems that quite soon now we’re going to be seeing even bigger price rises at the bowser and some suggest that the prices could be so huge that we […]