Right, add another country to the list of those that definitely drive better than us.
This is the bad news I bear after a quick trip to the Czech Republic in the new Golf R, as part of an investigative journalism extravaganza you’ll be reading in next month’s Top Gear Australia. Our hard-hitting subject? Who makes [...]
Czech your speed
at 4:53 pm on Friday February 5, 2010
Speeding banned
at 4:26 pm on Thursday January 21, 2010
I’d like to bring you some good news, I really would. I’d like to tell you that the price of fuel has dropped below $1, that Clarkson has decided to move to Australia and be our staff writer, that the Northern Territory has put its hand up to making a mistake and removed its speed [...]
Insurance? The firms have got you covered
at 2:32 pm on Monday January 18, 2010
The big news swirling around Sydney today is the revelation that car insurance companies are screwing anyone and everyone foolish enough to take out a policy.
24 hours of Stig
at 2:55 pm on Friday January 15, 2010
The thing about having a Stig on your staff is that he/it/they are/is fairly high maintenance. While it’s true that he’s happy to stand in the stationery cupboard without sleep or food for weeks at a time, occasionally he gets sick of being stationary and demands a car, and a track.
Falcon’s rear drive
at 4:21 pm on Wednesday January 13, 2010
Ford fanatics will be choking on their meat pies. Ford’s president and chief executive, Alan Mulally, spoke at the Detroit motor show this week about company plans that could see the Aussie icon phased out. Well, sort of.
As part of its new ‘One Ford’ program, the wobbly auto giant intends to [...]
Know thine enemy
at 10:17 am on Monday January 4, 2010
Know thine enemy, particularly if they turn out to be a friend of yours.
I had an interesting discussion with an older associate the other day that completely rocked my world and made me think that, as much and as loudly as I rant about other drivers, I don’t really understand them at all. And if [...]
The best pic of 2009
at 3:17 pm on Tuesday December 29, 2009
If a picture tells a thousand words, and we’ve taken a whole year’s worth of photographs, that must mean we’ve told you, erm, a gabillion stories.
American irony
at 2:15 pm on Thursday December 17, 2009
Australians are meant to be a pugnaciously patriotic bunch, jingoistic to a fault, wrapped in the flag, tattooed with southern crosses and so on, so why on Earth do so many of us so desperately want to be American?
Is it their sporting heroes we want to emulate? Tiger Woods, Andree Agassi, Barry Bonds? Or is [...]
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