Nice driving, gene-ius

Posted by Stephen Corby at 1:54 pm on Monday November 2, 2009

It’s a dark day for competent motorists everywhere. According to a recent study, ineptitude behind the wheel may, in fact, be genetic.
The results of the study, posted on Live Science’s website, reveal that some of us may possess a bad driving gene, making us prone to automotive dodginess and car accidents.
Perhaps this is how Mother Nature weeds [...]

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Speed skills?

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 4:28 pm on Friday October 30, 2009
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Has the world gone mad? Have we slipped into some sort of parallel universe where down is up, Kyle Sandilands is skinny and Daryl Somers is funny?
How else do you explain news reports today in which people are campaigning to increase the speed limit on certain roads?

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Are we world’s worst drivers?

Posted by Stephen Corby at 5:11 pm on Monday October 26, 2009

Some people go to Paris for the art, the food (snails taste far less like snot than you’d imagine) and the architecture, but I say Pepe le poo poo to all that, because I go to watch the traffic.
The Arc de Triomphe  is rightly famous as a gigantic representation of France’s fantastic record of victories [...]

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HSV in battle of the brutes

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 11:46 am on Monday October 26, 2009

A runway with no planes, a man with a radio, four guys, four monster sedans… what did you think was going to happen?

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Living legends

Posted by Stephen Corby at 11:48 am on Thursday October 22, 2009

What, or who, makes a legend? Depending how dictionarily anal you are, you might suggest that no one can be a legend until they’re dead, but we can defy that definition with two words – Steve and Waugh.

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To hell and Bathurst

Posted by Stephen Corby at 5:28 pm on Wednesday October 7, 2009
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War correspondents love to lord it over merely mundane journalists. They have their photos taken as often as possible while wearing flak jackets and camouflaged Stackhats. They drink hard liquor, straight, with ever-so-slightly shaky hands and, without any actual provocation at all they’ll let you force them into discussing danger and courage under filing.
Pah. I [...]

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Statesmans for the States

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 4:04 pm on Tuesday October 6, 2009
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By Kurt McGuiness
There’s a new sheriff on the mean streets of LA, and no, it’s not another bandana-clad idiot played by Steven Seagal.
Criminals in La La Land could be met with some Aussie engineering when they have their faces mashed against the bonnets of some 20,000 Statesmans being supplied to LAPD, if a massive bid [...]

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HSV’s Micro Machine

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 1:11 pm on Thursday October 1, 2009
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With the Holden Astra officially sent to that great auto scrap yard in the sky, power-hungry tuner HSV is faced with a serious dilemma.

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