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Peskett’s Ponderings: artist or felon?

Karl Peskett — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:23:11 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Peskett’s Ponderings: artist or felon?

Do Cars Make Men More Attractive?

Alborz Fallah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:34:49 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Do Cars Make Men More Attractive?

When will you buy Australian-made again?

Alborz Fallah — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:37:44 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

When will you buy Australian-made again?

CarAdvice Podcast- The car industry with Tom Elliott

thomasrdotorg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:36:19 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

CarAdvice Podcast- The car industry with Tom Elliott

CarAdvice catches train surfer

Paul Maric — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:50:39 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

CarAdvice catches train surfer

German vs Australian car culture

Alborz Fallah — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:01:03 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

German vs Australian car culture

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

Karl Peskett — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:23:43 +0000

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. [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

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

Share my story – QLD transport tries something new

Alborz Fallah — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:44:26 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Share my story – QLD transport tries something new

2008 Road toll figures lowest in 59 years

Alborz Fallah — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:35:43 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

2008 Road toll figures lowest in 59 years

Car confiscation in new P-plater plan

George Skentzos — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:28:28 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Car confiscation in new P-plater plan

Chery – Chrysler deal hurt bailout hopes

Matt Brogan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:44:20 +0000

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 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Chery – Chrysler deal hurt bailout hopes

TGA ratings hit a bump in the road

Matt Brogan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:30:50 +0000

With just two episodes under their belt, the Top Gear Australia team has taken a battering with only 674,000 viewers returning for the second episode, a drop of over 250,000 viewers compared to the premiere episode. TGA finished last in its time slot to become the 26th most watched show last night, hinting that the new [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

TGA ratings hit a bump in the road

Common sense loses in LCT debate

George Skentzos — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:40:19 +0000

Common sense is yet to prevail over the current Luxury Car Tax debacle, with the Senate rejecting an Opposition bid to raise the luxury price threshold to $90,000. - George Skentzos The proposal was an acceptable compromise, maintaining the current LCT rate of 25 percent for vehicles over the existing $57,180 threshold, and applying the proposed 33 [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Common sense loses in LCT debate

2008 Easter road toll

Alborz Fallah — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:20:29 +0000

This year’s Easter road toll has hit 21 and going by the latest police reports, it might go even higher. So far Queensland has had the worst record with seven deaths, Western Australia has hit five, Victoria is currently sitting at four, Tasmania is three and the Northern Territory and South Australia have each recorded one. [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

2008 Easter road toll

European driving – the right way

Paul Maric — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:10:42 +0000

Driving isn’t so a much a right as it is a privilege. That’s the issue we’re faced with in Australia and it’s part of the reason the greater majority of road users infecting our roads are incredibly poor at driving. My recent venture through Europe highlighted several things that Australia seriously lacks when it comes to [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

European driving – the right way

The Victorian Police Force, Hard at Work

Paul Maric — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:13:55 +0000

Two acts of hypocrisy and idiocy have enraged me this week, both originating at the hands of the Victorian Police Force. Firstly, according to the VicRoads Road Rules manual, in particular - Part 11 – Rule 130 – 1: b) – http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/Cars/RoadRulesRegulations/ 130. Keeping to the left on a multi-lane road (1) This rule applies to a driver [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

The Victorian Police Force, Hard at Work

Evo X .vs. New STi – You decide

Alborz Fallah — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:26:26 +0000

We have decided that our company car is either going to be the new Evo X or the MY08 Subaru Impreza WRX STi. Although we are leaning a little bit in favour of the Evo X, we want you to tell us which car you’d buy. The Evo has the looks, performance, dual-clutch gearbox, more [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Evo X .vs. New STi – You decide

P-Plater Vehicle Restrictions Under Fire

Alborz Fallah — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:49:57 +0000

The recently introduced P-Plater laws which prohibit young drivers from driving supercharged, turbocharged, V8+ or modified vehicles in QLD and Victoria have come under some considerable scrutiny. In another attempt by the State governments to simply cover-up a much more complicated problem of rising P-Plater accidents, the blanket restrictions have caused a massive headache for the [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

P-Plater Vehicle Restrictions Under Fire

Drivers not too keen on ignition interlocks

Alborz Fallah — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:27:09 +0000

Drink and Drive, you’re a bloody idiot. We all know it, we have all seen the ads and we all know, not to do it. Whilst here at CarAdvice we are not shy of criticising the state government’s “Speed Kills” revenue raising campaigns, we are 100% behind the anti drink-driving campaigns. Unfortunately, being the arrogant species [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Drivers not too keen on ignition interlocks

Hyundai’s back baby

Matt Brogan — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:18:56 +0000

Hyundai’s short lived Santa Fe ad is back, albeit with a few modifications. The ad was pulled from air five months ago by the Advertising Standrards Board after over eighty mindless complaints from viewers (who clearly had nothing better to do) claimed the ad was a bad influence on children and that it could lead to [...]

Original article from: Australian Car Advice - Australia's largest independent Auto site.

Hyundai’s back baby