Technical
Browse our extensive collection of tech articles for DIY tips on everything you need to know to work on your project car. We’ve got you covered from setting up your first workshop, to mechanical upgrades, car care and much more!
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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
Engine tech
Bodywork
Ford pushes a richer mix with Falcon
Ford trump Marin Burela says younger Falcon customers demand more up-spec Falcons.
Dutch truck cops 45 automated speeding tickets and it was parked
But the various State governments still tell us that the greed cameras are fool proof.
Double blow
Official (and unofficial) confirmation of Audi’s new twin-turbo V8.
SPECIAL: Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Mercedes-Benz launches its eighth-generation E-Class with technology for tomorrow wrapped in styling that references the past. It’s a fine drive, but the model’s significance means it can’t shake that conservative lineage.
Australia loses a legendary engineer
Peter Holinger was a tough competitor and a brilliant creative engineer whose gearboxes went international.
Roger Rogerson book signing
‘Ere, ‘ere, ‘ere… what’s the former detective doing making a personal appearance to push his new book at a motoring book shop? Because he’s a car guy, that’s why.
Gordini name is racing back
The little French blue road rockets with two white stripes are making a return to the Renault catalogue.
BMW aiming to stay on top
Onwards and upwards. No slacking off; no backing off at BMW.
Pony Car Rides Again
The on again off again proposal to bring US muscle car icon the Camaro to Australia appears to be on again, after GM vice chairman Bob Lutz told journalists in Detroit today (Tuesday) that a right hand drive program for the performance coupe was underway.
HSV set to revive GTS-R nameplate
Lightweight yellow trick road-racer returns
Pony-car express
Camaro poised to gallop Down Under
Toyota FT-86 G Sports Concept
THE DRIVING force behind Toyota’s aggressive Salon stable is Akio Toyoda, the company’s new petrolhead CEO
The Rising Gun
Stillborn next-gen NSX revived for the racetrack – Honda HSV-010 GT
The biggest losers: Sydney drivers
Research shows that Sydneysiders are paying a hell of a lot more to insure their cars.
Hardcore hybrid
Faster than a Ferrari, more frugal than a Fiesta
The most coveted Ferrari in the world is sold
A rare 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO has been bought privately
Ford gets new V8 engine from USA
Ford USA’s Coyote 5.0 V8 engine will reignite the smouldering Ford-Holden power war
Uma Thurman to star in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Giulietta
Alfa Romeo uses Uma Thurman in a reworking of Shakespeare’s classics
M5: BMW reinvents the fast four door!
BMW’s famous M-division is set to redefine the fast four-door with its forthcoming M5
Mazda wants to be the ‘Japanese Alfa Romeo’
Mazda’s chief of design in Europe has confirmed this week that the Japanese carmaker will soon move away from the ‘Nagare’ design language
Mercedes to have 16 new or upgraded models by 2011
Following a global sales increase of 17 percent in May Mercedes-Benz has announced it will launch 16 new or upgraded models by 2011
Porsche’s new CEO to bring out new entry-level Porsche
Porsche’s new CEO Matthais Mueller is expected to bring out a new entry-level Porsche
ANCAP’s new, simpler website launched
Following news last month of a $5 million dollar funding boost from the Federal Government, the Australasian New Car Assessment Program has launched a new website
Judge Dredd truck gets even louder
Built in the UK, the famous movie truck has now been modified to pump out over 50,000 watts of audio power
