Toyota Automobile Museum – picture tour

by Matt Brogan. Nagakute, Japan.
The Toyota Automobile Museum is just one of the two museums we’ll be presenting over the coming weeks as we wrap up our coverage from Japan.

TAM is located in Nagakute – just outside of Nagoya, Japan – and features a wide variety of cars not just from Toyota, but from a [...]

Shannons Melbourne summer auction

Shannons Melbourne Summer Auction on November 23rd will see a great range of pre 1950s Classic cars going under the hammer.

A pre-war 1934 Nash 120 Sedan, once owned by a minister in Chadstone, Melbourne, has been restored by its present owner over a nine year period.
The car was striped down to its chassis and each [...]

Unique Ferrari 599 sells for $2 million

A unique Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano was sold last night for AUD$2 million to a Chinese car buyer.

Leading Chinese artist, Lu Hao, had taken the Ferrari super car and decorated it with Song Dynasty Ge kiln pottery pattens. Lu Hao blended traditional design elements with Ferrari’s innovative styling to create a truly unique vehicle using [...]

Video: Armoured Rolls-Royce ballistics testing

Armoured prestige vehicles are certainly nothing new; BMW and Mercedes-Benz have purpose built models developed specifically to keep their VIP owners out of harm’s way.

But explosives and firearms testing is something we haven’t come across before, and it makes for some interesting viewing – especially when applied to a million-dollar Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Via: es.Autoblog.com

Costly options of little re-sale value

Residual value experts Glass’s have in a recent UK-based report claimed that some optional extras are of little value on the used car market.

Glass’s say that expensive manufacturer fit options such as radar cruise control can drop 86 per cent of its value over a 12 month period while the car itself may only drop [...]

Silver is the new white

Confirming what even the most colour blind car spotter could tell you, silver is the new white.

Silver has taken the title of world’s most popular automotive colour for the ninth consecutive year.
According to PPG, a leader in automotive paints, 25 per cent of new cars purchased in North America over the last year were some [...]

Top Gear to end on surprise high

According to Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, the most popular motoring program of all time will finish its run much like any regular episode when the series eventually winds up.

Mr Hammond said that he and his co-presenters, James May and Jeremy Clarkson, have each discussed how the show should finish and believe that ending the [...]

Victoria Police ‘hoon’ blitz starts tonight

Victoria Police will tonight launch the second stage of Operation Ardent, a major road blitz aimed at dangerous driving across the state.

The operation, which will continue through until Sunday, will see police target specific trouble spots focusing on so-called ‘hoon’ driving as well as speeding, dangerous driving, drug and drink driving offences.

Mercedes-Benz Vito and Viano first to get five star safety

The Mercedes-Benz Vito van and Viano people mover are the first van-based vehicles in Australia to earn a coveted five-star ANCAP safety rating.

By John Cadogan
The announcement by Australasian New Car Assessment Program boss Lauchlan McIntosh took place at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne yesterday, two weeks after the final crash test that elevated the Benz [...]

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.

Men & NSW drivers Australia’s worst – report

A recent survey published by Galaxy Poll has discovered men admit to being Australia’s worst drivers while NSW motorists have been found as the country’s “most rude and dangerous”.

The survey also divulged that men were more likely than women to admit to driving recklessly with more males polled saying they’ve failed to give way, stop [...]

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