CarAdvice Podcast The Driveshow Episode 19

This week our editor John Cadogan talks about Holden’s announcement regarding Commodore cop car exports, plus ‘hardship’ severance packages for SA assembly plant workers, and the pesky electrical glitch that”s killing VE Commodore batteries.

He the moves on to what is being done to get rid of Mt Panorama’s kangaroos, the old-fashioned way, ahead of the big race. Environmentalists up [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Where’s my spy camera?

A blue VW Transporter van fitted with a single, external, tripod mounted camera capable of scanning up to 700 number plates an hour was trialled yesterday in Moorabbin, Victoria, as police attempt to catch disqualified drivers.

The trial, which police say is still in its infancy, has already proved the automated number plate recognition technology works [...]

AutoTalk – What We Think!

To show we’re more than road testers and news writers, members of the CarAdvice team will from here on in present regular editorial pieces on a topic close to their heart … or simply something they need to get of their chest.

Every morning when leaving for work I have to pass through a school [...]

Sneaky and illegal mobile speed camera tactics

It pays to know the law and one of our readers has spotted a law-bending mobile speed camera operator in action, totally ignoring the policy set out by the Victorian government.
The operating policy set out by the Victoria Police Traffic Camera Office state some of the many rules behind mobile speed cameras operating, one of [...]