Deni Ute Muster done and dusted for another year

It is just a few hours since the 2009 Deniliquin Ute Muster ended and organiser’s are overwhelmed by its success.

Not only did the Festival deliver a top class entertainment line up but some substantial rainfall throughout the two days.
Rain in the drought affected area did not dampen the spirits of over 20,000 attendees who travelled [...]

Mini Cooper D wins Bathurst

Thirty-three years after it won the Bathurst endurance event outright, a new Mini Cooper has returned to victory lane at Mt Panorama.

Not since 1966 when the Morris Cooper S of Finn Rauno Aaltonen and Aussie Bob Holden won the Gallagher 500 mile event has a Mini won an event at the famed home of [...]

Bathurst 12 Hour regulations expand vehicle eligibility

With the V8 Supercars resembling their road-going counterparts in silhouette alone – although even that is arguable – the Bathurst 12 Hour Showroom Enduro is quickly earning a reputation as one of the highlights of the Australian motorsport calendar.

Now organisers have tweaked the rules in order to increase the range of eligible vehicles which will [...]

Australian Muscle Car Masters

It is no coincidence that the Australian Muscle Car Masters falls on Australia’s Father’s Day weekend, and for many dads there’s would be no better way to spend their day than with the smell of vintage automotive ‘muscle’ in the air.

I arrived at Eastern Creek International Raceway, in Sydney, with my own dad at perhaps [...]

World Rally Championship stars arrive

If you’re 25-years-old or under, then you will know exactly what the letters WRC stand for.

By Anthony Crawford
The World Rally Championship is big business all over the globe, and made famous by millions of Xbox and Playstation gamers, driving the world’s best rally cars in some of the toughest rallies on the planet, without [...]

Speed cameras torched across Sydney

It appears as though a few disgruntled motorists are serving their own kind of vigilanty justice in North Sydney by torching yet another speed camera earlier today.

The city-bound fixed speed camera halfway up Spit Hill was deliberately set alight at around 2am this morning, wiping out one of the city’s most notorious revenue-raising cameras.

Rally Australia only a month away

For those of you who are not aware, Round 10 of the 2009 FIA World Rally Championship is scheduled to run on 3-6 September, in the east coast of Australia.

The Repco Rally Australia as it’s officially titled, includes closed-road competition stages through Tweed and Kyogle Shires in Northern New South Wales with a rally car [...]

NSW’S $7million speed camera!

It will probably get a pat on the back from the New South Wales Government, it certainly won’t win any kudos from motorists, but one speed camera in suburban Sydney has raised $7million in revenue in a year.

Described by Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph as the state’s nastiest speed trap, it has caught out 71,288 [...]

NSW Police boycott fines indefinitely

From next Monday, New South Wales will become a “fine-free” state with Police set to show leniency on any ticketable offence following an escalating pay row with the State Government.

The action is expected to cost the State Government over $2 million and raise public interest over the matter with 15,000 police state-wide siding with the [...]

NSW trialling electronic speed limiter in cars

The New South Wales government will begin testing a new electronic speed limiter device on Wollongong roads next month which it says could one day become a standard feature on all cars.

Although its effectiveness is already being questioned as drivers will be able to override the system at the flick of a switch, which would [...]

AutoRoute: A different approach to 4WDriving Central Australia

-by Josh McKenzie
I guess I can only blame myself for having been in this position. You see, I would normally do 25,000km a year as stipulated in my novated lease.
However, for reasons that can only really be justified by a sense of adventure and youthful exuberance, I felt the need to spend parts of the [...]

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