Peskett’s Ponderings: artist or felon?

The world, or more specifically, Australia, has gone mad. No, I don’t think you understand me. It really has. You live in the wrong country if you’re a car enthusiast.

I mean these days we can have swearing on the radio. We can watch people doing all manner of unthinkable things to others as entertainment on [...]

Do Cars Make Men More Attractive?

Do Cars Make Men More Attractive?

You may read with interest today the survey in Top Gear Australia magazine that concludes that sports cars or luxury cars generally don’t add any attraction points to most men, interesting.

Unfortunately, I think something has been missing from the picture for a long while now. Society has brought it upon [...]

When will you buy Australian-made again?

It’s not often I’ll write a piece on the car industry as a whole, frankly I’ve only been around for a few years and I’d much prefer to sit back and learn a lot more before commentating. However given the current situation, I felt the need to write something.

Those of us heavily involved in the [...]

CarAdvice Podcast- The car industry with Tom Elliott

Recently CarAdvice had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Tom Elliott who is both a financial commentator with radio 3AW and ABC TV as well as Managing Director of hedge fund MM&E Capital.
During the course of this wide ranging half hour podcast you’ll hear a number of issues raised including: the global financial [...]

CarAdvice catches train surfer

Quiet please, quiet please.
And the winner of this year’s moron of the year award goes to…
THE IMBECILE PICTURED BELOW!
Photo by John Marx

You can imagine how surprised CarAdvice’s Paul Maric was when heading home on Friday night after a road test. While we stand on a train overpass a train pulls in full of punters from [...]

German vs Australian car culture

I’m moving to Germany. There is no questioning it now. I can’t work out how I am going to survive in Australia when I come back, so the best option is to stay here. Let me tell you why.

I just came back from the Nurburgring, the home of modern motorsports. The track is a sight [...]

Peskett’s Ponderings: Mazda. The happy car company?

Call me crazy, but when I buy a car, or even look at a car, I like it to have a little bit of dynamism about it. A slightly aggressive look even. Something that stares you down, and makes your heart race.

Which is why I love Aston Martin’s DBS, BMW’s M3, and the Lamborghini Gallardo. [...]

Share my story – QLD transport tries something new

We all know the horror graphic ads showing in detail what smoking does to our body, but does it really have a lasting affect? Has anyone quit smoking because they saw an ad showing what it’s like to have throat cancer?

Recently we posted these rather graphical ads showcasing the “most emotional” road safety ads from [...]

2008 Road toll figures lowest in 59 years

The final road toll figures for 2008 have been released, setting last year’s record at 1463 road casualties.
This is a reduction of 153 deaths over 2007 and 135 over 2006. The good news is this is the best year on record since 1949, it sounds even better when you take into consideration that there are [...]

Car confiscation in new P-plater plan

A new plan will be put to the New South Wales government that will allow police to confiscate cars from P-platers for three months if they are caught driving more than 20km/h over the speed limit.
The proposal follows five serious P-plater accidents in as many days, one of which resulted in the death of a [...]

Chery – Chrysler deal hurt bailout hopes

Chinese manufacturer Chery had planned to build cars for Chrysler to sell in to North America as early as last year in exchange for a vital cash injection, there’s no secrets there, but with a distinct lack of the engineering talent required to make cars of a quality acceptable to the US market, coupled with [...]

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