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AdviceCar Airbags: how they work and why they’re important
While airbags are proven to prevent serious injuries and save lives, they can also be pretty dangerous, so it’s important to know how they operate
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AdviceDo I pay rego during lockdown? Answering your COVID car questions
Advice to keep your car in good shape during lockdown and to save money if you can’t drive
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AdviceDriving on snow and ice safely
Here’s how to stay safe off-road when winter adds snow and ice to the mud and grit
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AdviceHow to react around emergency vehicles
What should you do when you hear a siren or see flashing lights in your rear view mirror?
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AdviceCar maintenance tasks you can do yourself
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AdviceHow often should you service your car?
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Advice12 must-haves for peaceful family road trips
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AdviceElectric power steering: the pros and cons
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Paris Motor Show 2012 preview: the best cars
The 2012 Paris Motor Show is just around the corner, kicking off on the 27 September. Stay tuned as we bring you the latest reveals and concept vehicles, but in the meantime, here’s a preview of the 21 most exciting, interesting and important cars to look forward to at Paris 2012.

20 sexiest cars from the LA Motor Show
LA Show-stoppers — New Porsches, fabulously fast Bentleys, musclebound Mustangs, big BMWs and lots more on show at the Los Angeles Motor show. Come on a VIP tour of LaLa-Land’s biggest car fest with ninemsn and Wheels magazine.

LA Show highlights
Check out some of the interesting and exotic motoring metal that tweaked our inner rev-head at this week’s Los Angeles auto show.

Detroit debutants
The 2013 Detroit Motor Show starts next week and if you’re like us, you’re rubbing your hands together in anticipation.

The best from Detroit 2013
North American International Auto Show’s best

Electric car comes with free recharging – forever
A car that promises free refueling “forever” has been launched at the Detroit Auto Show, and it’s coming to Australia soon.

A return to glory for Detroit Motor Show
Cars were unveiled with pizazz – a pick up truck was once driven through the glass doors of the convention centre, others leapt out of waterfalls and dropped from roofs.

Preview! 2013 Geneva Motor Show
Images of the hotly anticipated Toyota 86 convertible have been released ahead of its Geneva Motor Show debut.

Geneva’s best concept cars
What you’re about to look at is the future.

Best supercars of Geneva
This year’s Geneva auto salon had more than its fair share of the desirably unattainable…

Geneva Motor Show: Top-10 cars
From another majestic Rolls Royce to Maranello’s latest creation, here are the best of the 2013 Geneva Motor Show…

The greatest show on earth
Supercars come in threes at Geneva Show.

Geneva Auto Show 2013: Best cars and concepts
The doors are open, the car covers removed – Geneva 2013 is go!

Geneva’s best car – day two
If you think you’ve seen everything the Geneva Motor Show has to offer, think again

Geneva’s best cars – day two
If you think you’ve seen everything the Geneva Motor Show has to offer, think again

Geneva: The weird, wacky and the just plain wrong.
It’s a sad, but very true, fact that not everything can be a success.

The girls of Geneva
Yes the Geneva Motor Show is about cars. But there were plenty of other models that caught our eye too

In pics: Top Gear Festival Sydney
Million dollar supercars, Formula 1 cars, priceless historics and gobsmacking concepts – all of these were on display over the weekend at the Top Gear Festival at Sydney Motorsport park.

It’s a Lamborghini…limousine!
Remember this moment, you’re experiencing history. The world of supercars is the same no more. Change has come to the supercar market, with the Geneva Motor Show ushering in a new era of supercar exotica – the hybrid.<

Preview: New York Motor Show
The dust has barely settled in Geneva, but the motoring world is already descending on New York.

Melbourne motor show cancelled
Citing declining support from manufacturers and plummeting attendance figures, organisers have been forced to cancel the 2013 Australian International Motor Show.

New York Motor Show opens
New York Motor Show opens.

Top 10 from New York
THE BIG APPLE. Sweet? To the core. Important as a motor show? Well, let’s just say it’s more like that succulent peach in the fruit bowl of international car expos.

The girls of New York
Yes motor shows are about cars, but they’re also about many other, interesting things.