02 Apr 2012
THINK twice before making a small claim with your car insurer. A Choice review of 44 car insurance policies has found that making small claims can end up costing you more money, as it often results in lost discounts and higher excess charges.
Let’s face it, we have all had some sort of minor ding or prang at some stage.
28 Feb 2012
IF THE automobile is the ultimate symbol of personal freedom then the open road is the ultimate blank slate, the ultimate symbol of opportunity and the ultimate adventure.
28 Feb 2012
THE commercialisation of GPS navigators was meant to revolutionise driving, de-clutter our glove boxes and keep us from getting lost. Well, two out of three ain’t bad.
Of all the high-tech car gadgets to be popularised in the last decade or so, global positioning systems are surely the most practical. But no matter how expensive or fancy the model you buy, the accuracy of a GPS is always dependent on the reliability of your satellite network and available data. No GPS is foolproof.
03 Feb 2012
ROB Easdown has a look at some of the great high-performance vehicles coming to Australian roads. And it’s all looking ff-fantastic.
02 Dec 2011
THE mid-range Mercedes Benz has been the mainstay of the Mercedes offering since the mid-1930s. The E-Class, as it was officially dubbed in 1993, has come to represent to most people what a Benz is all about – spaciousness, a smooth ride, and safety beyond compare.
17 Nov 2011
YOU are driving on the road when someone decides to cut into your lane and drive below the speed limit. What would you do? Start tailgating, beep the horn or yell out abuse and make rude gestures?
04 Nov 2011
VOLVOS were, for a long time, the mouthguards of the motoring world: not pretty but useful if you happened to run into something. They were driven by people who didn’t care what their car looked like as long as it managed to convey them and their spawn in the greatest of safety from point A to point B.
14 Oct 2011
PEUGEOT has come of age, and its expanding model line-up is evidence of a newfound commitment to building exciting cars that stir the soul.
26 Aug 2011
LEXUS has decided to give the world of ho-hum hybrid vehicles a shake-up by launching what it calls the world’s first luxury hybrid hatch.
05 Aug 2011
IT’S seldom that I start a car review by stating that a car is good. But let me save you the trouble of trying to figure out what I’m going to say in my rambling treatise below: the new Jeep Grand Cherokee is good. Not just good for a Chrysler product. Not just good for an American car. It’s good. Full stop.
