CarAdvice Podcast The Driveshow Episode 17

CarAdvice wishes to welcome our new editor John Cadogan and what better way to introduce him than to host his podcast program: The Drive Show.

In this episode John interviews Rod Easdown, the motoring journalist who got caught doing 231km/h in a Ferrari California in Western Australia, plus much more. You can subscribe to our podcast [...]

Radical SR3 RS & SR8 track day supercars

I’m all for safe driving, but our maximum legal speed limit in Australia is considered dangerously slow in many sections of Germany’s high-speed autobahn system.

By Anthony Crawford
And no, I’m not trying to be funny either we have absolute proof of how dangerous these so-called safe speeds of ours can be over there.

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.

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.

Victoria’s oldest “hoon” caught at 160km/h

Updated 5:45pm
Victoria’s oldest “hoon” driver, a 79 year old man from the tiny town of Aubrey in the Wimmera, asked police if he could be let go with a warning after being clocked at 60km/h over the speed limit.

The man, who recorded a speed of 160km/h, came to a screeching halt in the middle of [...]

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 [...]

Police move to protect speed camera operators

Operators of mobile speed cameras in South Australia will now receive an added layer of protection from would be vigilantes.
A protective coating on the glass of operator’s vehicles – preventing the windows from shattering – will be implemented in the hope of reducing potential injury following a recent spate of rock throwing by motorists.
In addition [...]

Ferrari California nabbed at 231km/h; impounded

A new Ferrari California, said to be one of only two in Australia, has been impounded by police after a Perth-based motoring journalist was caught travelling at 231km/h through the West Australian wheatbelt.

The Italian supercar, valued at almost $500,000, has now been impounded after Financial Review motoring writer Rod Easdown was detected at more than [...]

$50m Victoria Speed Camera Blitz

Victoria is set to receive its largest expansion of the speed camera network since 1986 with the addition of 31 new fixed speed cameras across the state. 22 existing sites will also upgraded from red light to combined red light / speed cameras.

As if that’s not enough an additional 3000 hours per month – or [...]

Victoria Police operation targets truckies

Victorian Police have this weekend completed a massive state-wide operation targeting truck drivers in what they say was a successful “blitz on heavy vehicle safety”.

Operation Austrans saw Police intercept over 4500 trucks on popular interstate routes from Friday night with a result of more than 1200 infringement notices being issued.

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