2006 Mitsubishi Colt VRX Road Test

2006 Mitsubishi Colt VRX Road Test

Test Model: Mitsubishi Colt VRX 1.5L MIVEC CVT Automatic (06MY VR-X Hatchback 5dr CVT 1sp 1.5i)

Options Fitted: None
Recommended Retail Price: $21,990
On Road Price: Around $25,000 but definitely shop around
Where it sits: There are three models in the Colt range starting with the manual only ES, followed by the LS with [...]

Toyota Aurion V6 Economy

Toyota Australia today confirmed its new Aurion V6 will have the most power and best fuel economy of the Aussie ‘big six’ family cars. Toyota has advised the Department of Transport and Regional Services that the Aurion 3.5-litre V6 will deliver 200kW of power on regular unleaded petrol (ULP) and 204kW on premium unleaded petrol [...]

2007 Toyota Camry Altise Road Test

To me, the Toyota Camry has always been quite a bland, conservative and boat like vehicle. It was never able to handle anything like its Aussie competitors and was always styled to appeal to a broad range of people – of whom many were bowls goers.

Well, there has been a massive shake-up in Camry-land. From [...]

Audi RS 4 Cabriolet

Audi has today confirmed that its new RS 4 Cabriolet will go on sale in Australia. Audi introduced the current generation Audi RS 4 Sedan in may and is awaiting the Audi RS 4 Avant later in October. The Audi RS 4 Cabriolet, which Audi says is one hell of a car (and I certainly [...]

Honda CRV 2007 Official Photos

I recently posted a brief and short article with spy shots of the new 2007 Honda CRV. Apparently Honda aren’t too happy with all these images floating around the internet as they had requested an image embargo till the 1st of September. But you know what? Honda needs to realise that the Internet doesn’t have [...]

The Citroen C6 Garage

The Citroën C6, which arrives in Australia in October, is now available with a unique optional extra, a designer garage that Citroen says, will match the unique style of Citroën’s range-topping model. The garage is designed exclusively for the Citroen C6 and incase you are wondering, yes its not cheap. The unique structure comes [...]

Car Theft Australia Statistics

You know you wouldn’t really think in this day and age many cars would get stolen, but latest figures from the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council (NMVTRC – long bloody name) tell a different story. The latest figures from NMVTRC state that every 6 mins, a car is stolen somewhere in Australia. Which makes [...]

Audi Q7 Australian Launch

Audi today confirmed that the Audi Q7 SUV will be officially launched in Australia on the 7th of September 2006. Audi plans to celebrate the occasion by starting a 7,000 km cross-country odyssey. 15 Audi Q7s will start a three week journey, known as the Audi ‘Trans-Continental Crossing’, the journey will take the cars between [...]

Lexus SC430 Safety Upgrade

Lexus today announced that it had increased the passive safety features of its SC430 retractable hardtop coupe, by adding an additional two SRS airbags. The new and improved Lexus SC430 will come with a driver and front passenger knee SRS airbags.

So alltogether the Lexus SC430 now comes with a tota of six SRS airbags as [...]

Thermal Imaging for Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety BMW Night Vision

For most of us it should be rather obvious that night-time driving is more dangerous than day-time driving. If you don’t believe me you only have to look Australian accident statistics which show that driving at night represents a significant potential danger with some 45 per cent of fatal road accidents occurring at night, even [...]

Rear Collision Warning System

So Mercedes Benz have the S Class which boasts a heap of Safety features, including the all too popular, front collision warning system that can sense when a collision is imminent and brakes the car before the driver has a chance to react. It also tightens seat belts and does a few other things to [...]

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