If you want to listen to this post in its original (and frankly, much more entertaining) form then go to Gareth Jones On Speed and download the latest podcast. This post is unashamedly pinched from that broadcast. I found it so fascinating that I had to adapt it for the written form here. Gareth Jones(…)
We had some really sad automotive news here yesterday. Ford will close its Australian manufacturing operations in three years time, after around 90 years of manufacturing in this country. The Fords built in Australia between now and October 2016 will be the last Fords ever built here. Ford will close its engine building plant in(…)
There’s been some terrible, terrible news coming out of Sweden this week. Swedish tax authorities had three former Saab executives arrested, kept in cells overnight, and all because they wanted to ask them some questions? Sounds like jackboot jante law to me. They were kept separate, as if somehow three people could establish a credible(…)
You’ve probably heard about or seen this garage already. I’ve seen photo-features on a few different websites over the years, but I’ve never seen film of either the garage or the car. Thankfully, Petrolicious is here to do the job right. The garage won a competition called Design Driven, sponsored by Maserati, back in 2009.(…)
Last weekend I had a conundrum on my hands – do I take the Alfa GTV6 I’m trying to sell out to a track meeting and risk something bad happening to it? Or stay home and do…. whatever. I ummed and ahhed about it for a few hours, worried about the possible consequences as well(…)
I have to think very long and hard about whether or not what I experienced today is something I’ve experienced before. Today I sat in a movie theatre with around 75 or so other people, and not one single person moved from their seat until after the movie’s credits had finished. When the credits finished,(…)
Anyone living in a country where students undergo national testing in order to evaluate a school’s effectiveness knows one thing – teachers will eventually, inevitably, teach the test. If you have a pressing need to pass something, you don’t necessarily learn everything about a topic, you learn what you need to know to pass the(…)
It’s the first Sunday of the month and that means Classics By The Beach. It started as a cold day, but that didn’t stop some hardy classic car owners from gathering under blue skies down at Sandy Bay once again. A few of the old stagers were there, but there are always new cars to(…)
Following on from Sniff Petrol’s review of the Dacia Sandero a few days ago, I locked on to Richard Hammond’s reviews of both the Sandero and the Dacia Duster. The guy behind Sniff Petrol, Richard Porter, is a writer for Top Gear and I’m pleased to say that the charms of the Dacia duo rubbed(…)