It’s a big moment in anybody’s life when they first get handed the keys to the family car. How well I remember my first drive in the family’s VW Beetle… It’s also a big moment for parents when they put their teenager in the driver’s seat of the car and let them head out onto the road for the first time.
While your teenager is on their L licence, everyone in ......
Kids love to send the electric windows down at any time of the day. “Helicopter wobbing” – as we call it – is the loud vibrations in the air waves from windows that have been sent down while travelling at highway speeds. There’s nothing more irritating! Well, almost. A high-pitched scream from the aftermath of a squabble in the back seat features right up the list of most unwanted noises on a long car trip. Hey, I love our kids. And I enjoy ......
The dreadful earthquake and tsunami in Japan will have an impact on practically every Western nation in some form or other.
We have been trying to find out how it will impact on the motor trade in Australia and frankly, it is very difficult to be definitive.
We do know that: -
A famous political saying of 50 years ago “You’ve never had it so good”* could well apply to today’s new car buyer.
We’ve been doing some homework on ‘value for money’ new cars comparing those manufactured today against those produced a generation ago.
We looked at two popular cars – the Holden Commodore and the Toyota Corolla.
Let’s look at the Corolla first.
In 1985, a Toyota Corolla CSX Hatchback 5-door with 5 speed manual transmission ......
JD Power is a highly respected market research company in the USA, and its annual new car reliability survey has garnered much attention over the last 40 years. They have just published their latest survey on new car reliability and customer satisfaction. The vehicle dependability survey took into account more than 43,000 original car owners of vehicles that were three years old and recorded any problems that arose in the past 12 months.
They use a factor of “number of problems per 100 cars”. ......
If you fell for our April Fool’s post with the phoney press release about a Swedish company using urine as a biofuels, you can be forgiven for falling for it. The truth is actually not that far away.
There has been much (genuine!) excitement in the motoring world about biodiesel produced from algae, as this reduces dependency on limited supplies of fossil fuel and looks to a renewable resource. Some microorganisms produce oils within them that are suitable for use as a feedstock for ......
