The Big Price Rip Off Revealed
The Aussie car buyer is being subjected to the biggest rip off in memory at car dealers’ showrooms if the following pricing chart reflects the truth!
It’s impossible to reach any other conclusion based on the figures we’ve gleaned from manufacturers’ web sites around the world.
Our survey of retail prices in Australia against cars of similar specification in the US and the UK show that, on average, we are paying at least 20 per cent too ......

Some 25 years ago an Australian research report found that in countries with right hand drive vehicles there are more cancers and pre-cancerous growths on the right side of a driver. Now researchers at the University Of Washington in Seattle, USA have found that Americans have a tendency to develop the worst forms of skin cancer such as melanomas and merkel cell carcinomas on the left side of their bodies. The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology also said that there is ......

Many new cars rolling off the lines and into the showrooms have been fitted with particulate filters to stop cars emitting quite as many nasties that people can breathe in.  You also frequently find pollen filters on the ventilation/air con systems, meaning that if you drive and suffer from hay fever, you are less likely to have your eyes streaming, forcing you to pull over, if you are stuck behind a trailer loaded with pollen-stuffed garden rubbish

It seems to be one thing that ......

Electric cars are somewhat of a novelty on our roads, and yet they are likely to become more and more common as people become aware of their value.  No emissions, for a start.  And it’s not very hard to plug in a cord at home or a commercial outlet in order for you to charge up your electric powered mode of transport.  But how sporty can you get with an electric motor?  And just how feasible is an electric motor for generating serious ......

It’s a familiar picture.  You’re sitting in a traffic jam going along at a crawl during rush hour wanting to get home, and you start thinking “This is crazy – why don’t they make decent roads so we don’t have this problem?”

Well, rest assured that all the experts at Austroads and all the consultants they contract for research are keeping busy dealing with all these problems and are always working to make sure that Australia – and New Zealand – has good roads.  ......