Sometimes it’s pretty hard keeping up with all the new doo-dads that are part of a new car’s comprehensive safety equipment list.  Some of the new names are new for the sake of being new – to disguise the fact that they are safety systems that have been around for a while – sure, over time, the old has been refined.  However, the new safety systems that Toyota, and others, are working on are pretty cool.  Get a load of these features.

Toyota has ......

Quite a few Australians are thinking of heading over to the other side of the Tasman during the upcoming Rugby World Cup.  And quite a few of them are considering hiring cars to get around while they’re over there.  What do you need to know about driving in New Zealand and what are some good road trips to do while you’re over there?

Driving in New Zealand is pretty similar to driving ......

The Baby Boom generation is getting older.  We all know the effects that this generation has had on the world in general, including the automotive world – would the VW Beetle and the Mini have been as popular in the 1960s if families hadn’t needed somewhere to fit their Boomer children (and the older Boomers became more mobile and took the wheel)? Around the world, planners and developers are looking at this generation and are wondering what the effect will be on the ......

The new buzz phrase for car marketers is ‘Park Assist’. This is where your car literally parks itself, so we are going to look into this a little further. We’ll show you some very clever and amusing TV commercials later which demonstrate the totally ‘hands free’ parking ability, but first we thought we’d do a survey of all the parking aid devices available to you now.

THE BASICS

The very basic parking aid is the front/rear windows and parking mirrors (and, in some cases, an outside helper!). ......

There’s a guy in the UK who wants to sell his car. It’s a Porsche and he’s probably created the best private car ad ever. His name is Peter Bohus and he starts off in the ad with some fascinating copywriting:-

“I am reluctant to sell my beautiful Porsche 911 Supersport Targa as I no longer have the time or energy to cope with the pressures of being in the public eye of admirers, gorgeous women constantly falling at my feet, always having to ......

Every now and then, most of us have need of a trailer.  There are many different trailers and loads one can tow.  There’s the camping trailer for the weekend away; or what about the caravan, instead, for a little more luxury.  Perhaps some of us will have a horse and will require a vehicle to tow the horse float.   Most of us could do with ......

We wrote about the amazing driverless car from Google a couple of months ago. We’ve just heard the embarrassing news that it’s crashed! But relax. It seems that it was not in the ‘driver free’ mode, so the ‘driver in control’ is probably a lot more embarrassed than the boffins themselves.

Auto blog site Jalopnik posted a photo on their pages that shows the car having shunted into another Toyota Prius near Google’s Californian ......

When you’ve just about got enough money together but not quite or you need the whole lot to buy that new car, what are the options?  Maybe you shouldn’t get the loan.  There are some big items that we may need to take a loan out for.  I’m thinking of a house, particularly.  A new car is also one of those big items that do swallow a lot of cash.  Being wary of over spending for that new car ......

We Aussies seem quick to complain about anything, yet sometmes we need to open our eyes to what is happening overseas. OK, this isn’t a sermon, but how often do you moan about bus drivers, taxi driver,train drivers etc?

We reckon if you were waiting at some traffic lights and an Aussie bus driver acted like this Russian one, then you really would have cause to complain!!

http://youtu.be/kOxnAN9xZRU

This is an extreme case of making up time, but have you had any similar experiences with ......