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by Stuart Livesey One of our daughters is thinking of buying a new small car and that’s a perfect excuse for someone like me to go tyre kicking and collecting a few brochures for her. It also helps that she’s about as tall as me … and that’s rather tall so I can cull the […]
Australian Summer Cars 5 by Stuart Livesey If you’re looking for a convertible to help you enjoy the Australian summer – and you have over a quarter of a million dollars to spend – then the BMW M6 is for you. Some describe it as a street-legal F1 while the Australians who now own one […]
There may be no hands on the wheel in the future by Stuart Livesey How many times have you come up behind a car on the highway and found that you couldn’t really see anyone in the driver’s seat? Thankfully that’s usually because the driver may be a little vertically challenged but if you were […]
If you can write a comic then you too can promote this vehicle The Jeep Patriot is in currently in production and will be released in the United States in the near future. In a rather unique marketing ploy Jeep is going to promote this vehicle via a comic … written by fans who are […]
Would Holden ever give fans a voice? Earlier this week Holden’s American cousin – Pontiac – opened “Pontiac Underground” (was “PontiacUnderground.com” but is no longer a valid URL), a new website designed to: “designed to tap into the “street-level” energy of fans from all its active and retired brands by uniting and introducing the hundreds […]
Australian Muscle in America by Stuart Livesey Pontiac will be releasing a new sports sedan in America later this year and once again some Australian muscle will be available in the US. The Pontiac G8 will be a re-badged version of the current Holden SS Commodore built in Holden’s Adelaide plant. Previously a slightly softer […]
The numbers are very big Last year new car sales in the United States totaled 16.55 million units. That’s a nice number that the Australian motor industry would love to achieve but the used car market is where the big numbers really are. In 2006 42.5 million used cars were sold in the US and […]
Despite uncertainty about interest rates and fuel costs sales are definitely up The Australian automotive industry has made a storming start to 2007, notching up record sales in January. Official VFACTS figures released today by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) show that 76,936 new cars, trucks and buses were sold last month; an […]
Get the poll results by Stuart Livesey Back on January 15 I asked the question: how important is a car stereo when you’re thinking about buying a new vehicle. If you follow the link you will see the reason I originally asked that question. The poll has now closed and the numbers have been crunched. […]
Our small town seems to attract more than it’s fair share of exotic cars. This classic Mustang was caught down on the Esplanade at Hervey Bay this morning.
Is it a rushed job? by Stuart Livesey Fiat launched it’s new compact car – the Bravo – on Tuesday just 18 months after design and development of the vehicle began. While the name has appeared in the Fiat lineup before it was dropped in 2001 when a completely new vehicle replaced it. But now […]
by Stuart Livesey Your parent company is bleeding money – $45 million dollars a day last year. You claim you’re profitable but your cars aren’t selling – the Falcon came in sixth behind Commodore, a whole bunch of Toyota models and the Mazda 3 Your popular SUV is losing its popularity. Your competitor has the […]
It certainly left us scratching our heads by Stuart Livesey Up here in this part of Queensland it’s a fine, hot, sunny day and there are plenty of people out and about enjoying the sun. So there we were, driving along the Esplanade admiring the view when we saw a convertible parked at the side […]
Or don’t do as I do but do as I say At least that’s what one New South Wales Police Officer seems to be saying. Channel 7 reports that the officer was found to be doing 245 km/h on the F6 freeway. He wasn’t caught by radar or spotted by another police car, instead he […]
General Motors made quite a splash at the Detroit Auto Show with a brand-new electric car. It’s only in the concept stage right now but maybe one day we’ll see the Chevrolet Volt sold in Australia under the Holden brand. And don’t be fooled into thinking that this car can’t travel long distances. General Motors […]
By Stuart Livesey During the 2006 season the Indy cars ran on E10 – a fuel mixture with only 10% ethanol. But from January 31 the Honda 3.5 litre V8 engines used in all Indy cars will be fueled by 100% ethanol.
The Queensland Government today reaffirmed its support for ethanol blended fuels at Saab Australia’s launch of its revolutionary BioPower car at the Holden Performance Driving Centre on the Gold Coast. The Saab BioPower car is the first ethanol production car in Australia that runs on 85% ethanol using its flex-fuel capability, giving motorists the ability […]
Saab will become the first ‘carbon neutral’ car brand in Australia in 2007 with the carbon emissions of every new Saab vehicle sold to be offset by the planting of new trees. Beginning this year, Saab will purchase a one year ‘offset’ to Greenfleet for every new or demonstration Saab vehicle purchased, making Saab the […]
At the moment Mitsubishi is running a major ad campaign here in Queensland for one of their SUVs and one of the features that they really put a lot of emphasis on is the brand of sound system that’s fitted to the vehicle. Perhaps I’m a Luddite but I’ve whenever I’ve been buying a new […]
Mitsubishi showed the prototype for the 2008 Lancer for the first time at last week’s Detroit Motor Show. The next Lancer certainly has some mean looks and interesting mechanicals. The technical details can be found here