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(…)
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(…)
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(…)
Your homework for this weekend starts with you reading the two articles linked below. Article one: A week with the Dacia Sandero (Sniff Petrol). Article two: The 6 dullest cars in America (Yahoo Autos). Done that? Good. Now compare and contrast to figure out why one of these articles is great and why one of(…)
The Good I don’t think anything of particular importance has crossed my automotive radar in the last 7 days. Amazing. I reckon this is pretty good, though. It might just be my next car. The current internal battle is between this exact car and a new-ish RenaultSport Megane. This 968 looks to be in pristine(…)
It’s great to be back after a few days working up country. Here are a few interesting car things from the last few days. —— There are 29 Saabs for sale on Ebay – all in one lot. The cars are dated from 1955 to 1993. The seller is a collector in Portugal who’s not(…)