Love them or hate them, speed cameras are to stay. Actually, I don’t think that anybody loves speed cameras. Most of us would love to do what Rowan Atkinson does in “Johnny English” – fire a missile at that thing that’s just snapped us and blow it to smithereens. And in case you’re wondering whether this writer has recently had a wee picture of their car taken at an unexpected moment and is feeling grumpy about it, I haven’t.

 
The idea of speed ......

Lamborghinis are undoubtedly quick cars, but did you also know they are amazingly quick to burn out? A guy on a test drive found out yesterday when his  car caught fire and burned to the ground in just a few minutes – as you can see here. That’s over $600,000 in Australian dollars going up in flames!

Thanks to everyone who took part in our Easter Egg hunt. we had a massive entry, far more than we expected, but sadly there can be only five winners, which have been drawn at random from the successful contenders.

The lucky winners are:-

1. Wayne Begley ( NSW )

2. Graham Westgrath  (NSW )

3. Nancy McAlary ( QLD )

4. Dave Moulding ( VIC )

5. Ross Rosso ( QLD )

A brand new TomTom ‘Live” sat/nav will be winging its way to each of the winners.

Thanks again for ......

Quite a story, eh?  This is the world of remote control hobby cars. One of the leading brands has just announced a new remote controlled car that actually does a real 70mph for a sale price of $499US. Size for size that translates to 560mph. See it in action here

This is a market that we are not too familiar with, so we did a little more research. It seems that 70mph is not quite so impressive as the world record is an ......

There was a time when ‘personalised plates’ meant two letters, usually your initials, followed by three or four numbers-usually your birthdate…and they were free!

How things change. Next there was a small registration fee, but the plate was yours for life, then a wider range of letters and numbers could be specified and then there were annual fees.

Now there is a huge range of choices which vary from state to state…and a huge range of fees charged by each State Roads Authority.

The best deals ......

Volkswagen is up in arms over a bogus TV ad that has gone viral on the internet.

Here is the ad that purports to be a genuine ad that is going to air in Ireland and the UK.

Whilst it is quite clever, and in the genre of VW advertising, it is far too provocative and racially offensive to pass all the regulationary codes.

In fact it was produced by a creative commercial TV outfit who speculatively presented it to Volkswagen’s advertising agency. They, of ......

Surveys have shown that modern cars are so much better than their predecessors. But there have been some real ‘lemons’ in the past.

So what was the worst car you’ve ever owned?

Well, let me get the ball rolling…

I took delivery of a brand new company car- a Holden Station Wagon a few decades ago. That was in September. In December we planned a family trip in the new car to Adelaide.

We set off ......

There’s certainly a raging sense of humour in the automotive industry if manufacturers’ efforts to fool the public on April 1st are anything to go by.

We’ve come across some brilliant and rather extravagant dupes from around the world that fooled thousands of gullible viewers.

Let’s start off with Peugeot from the UK. They produced a news story on their RCZ sports car, where they claimed to have developed a ‘mood paint’. The car, we are told, changes colour to suit our moods. Sounds sensational, doesn’t ......

Sit in a new car, and I wonder what materials you’ll find yourself seated on.  Cleverly designed materials can ward off smells, resist stains, and even repel hair and other loose bits so that the vacuum cleaner can suck them away easily when it comes time for giving the car a good clean out.  But take this a step further and imagine seats that have a high-tech fabric that can be part of a car’s communications system – think of this as being ......

How many of you know that it’s Opel’s 150^th year of celebration?  There are many cars that have recently celebrated 50 and 100 years but these are spring chickens compared with other car makers like Opel.

Opel started off with sewing machines.  They mastered the sewing machine and then moved on to build bicycles.  Go to any Opel manufacturing plant, and you’ll still be able to buy conventional bicycles and electrically powered bicycles from ......