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Want a great turntable system for $1000? First, revise your budget.
This is how a can of worms opens. A reader in Shepparton, Victoria, wants to buy his daughter a ‘record player’ for her 30th birthday and asks for suggestions. He […]
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The argument for not short-changing your kids.
Take a look at your kids, any kids for that matter, and consider; they hear better than you. Young, healthy people almost always hear better than older people, people like […]
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It may not always do as it’s told, but it behaves nicely.
The thing that appealed to me about Panasonic’s Lumix DMCLX10 was its size. For something that slips in your top pocket or bag it packs heaps of features and considerable […]
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Getting it right at the high end.
If you believe 60 is the new 40 you’ll probably remember when cars needed running in. You’d spend the first 1500 km or so driving slowly, everyone else overtaking you, […]
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The car is dead. Long live the car.
Cars are dying but personal mobility has never looked better. Ford in the USA, the company that put the world on wheels, has just announced that it’s going to phase […]
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Call that a television? This is a television.
It’s pretty scary when you look down a pricelist for televisions and find one for 662,000 euros, or somewhere vaguely north of a million bucks. What’s even scarier is finding […]
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How to find parts for Saabs.
If you own a Saab you’re probably feeling pretty lonely right now. You have what is likely to be a terrific car with lots of life left in it, yet […]
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Be careful what you listen to
I’ve never been a Ry Cooder fan and Bop Till You Drop was not his greatest album, but I bought it because it was the first popular album to be […]
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If you love the English language you’ll love this story.
“Hundreds of vehicle’s to choose from.” If you can’t spot the two grammatical errors in that sentence don’t open a car yard anytime soon. According to the specialist American auto […]
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0% off! Hurry!
Hurry, stocks are limited. Only a few left. Run in before they run out. After 14 years in the car industry it became an article of marketing faith with me […]