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What you really need to know when buying a car
Buy the car you want, not the one everyone else thinks you should, says Daniel Gardner.
Australia’s road toll keeps rising – and car nuts are bearing the burden
It turns out that blaming so-called hoons for the road toll was a waste of time and money.
Is driver assist making us… more dangerous?
There’s an argument to be made that new, semi-autonomous driver aids are contributing to a crisis of inattention on our roads.
Opinion: Cleaner ICE vehicles could be better for the environment than electric
Is the EV really the answer to reducing emissions or do we just need to bring back the small car?
Opinion: With the Corvette there’s no accounting for taste
On Corvettes, configurators and the thorny issue of aesthetic Dunning-Kruger
Opinion: Defining the supercar
Exactly how Super does a supercar need to be?
OPINION: Do people still care about cars?
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that maybe some people are just not the enthusiasts that we are
OPINION: Do new cars make too many noises?
These days I’m always one beep away from yelling at my car, who only knows how to respond with another beep. She’s so sassy.
OPINION: There’s a lot of overrated stuff out there
Can we talk about undeserved reputations?
OPINION: The car world is changing
The last decade has been one of enormous, and in some cases, disorienting disruption
Despite rising fines, the road toll is rising too
Speed limits continue to go south while the fines go north and yet the road toll continues to rise
Warranties prove new cars are not lower quality
J.D. Power’s initial quality survey has claimed that new vehicles are becoming more problematic. I don’t buy it.
Opinion: Should Australia’s best-selling vehicle pay more than its fair share?
Heaven forbid we tax the dual cab
The rush of the new car buy
Interrogating the changing excitement curve of new car-buying
ENRIGHT: Just get that dream car; it might be your last chance
The shift from internal combustion engines will yield some great collectables
Enright: EVs just don’t suit me at the moment
I’ll buy an electric car when there is one that fits the needs
Let’s leave the pick-up truck obsession for the US
Size matters, but not always in a good way.
Politics and safety policy: The deadliest piece of the road toll
The problem with putting politicians in charge of road safety is that we end up with politics, not policy
The day I properly understood the sobering reality of crash safety and my old car
How does it feel to see a 30-year-old car be crash tested, when you drive a car the same age? ANCAP reveals a startling example…
Artificial EV sounds could be a lot more fun than you might think
Would you drive an electric performance car with the best-sounding ‘V8’ you’d ever heard? I would
Carbon fibre as decoration is getting out of hand
Is the other carbon economy a busted flush?
Lamborghini remains as outrageous as always
Lamborghini is 60 but refuses to grow old gracefully. That’s cause for celebration
OPINION: They said we’d have flying cars in the future…
Personal mobility aircraft sound brilliant, but the whole thing really is a pie-in-the-sky concept, scoffs Dan
Opinion: Kia ora, SVG
Saying goodbye to one of the greatest Supercars racers of our age is hard to do
