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Things you didn’t know about motoring #6: What to do while watching for fires.
William Heynes designed Jaguar’s iconic 3.4-litre, six-cylinder XK engine while on fire-watching duty in London during the air raids of World War Two. Posted March 2020.
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Car of the week #7: Mind-numbing Maserati
Maserati went through a challenging period in the 1980s and 90s. There were fuel crises and recessions and powerful car safety advocates, there were emission laws and noise laws and […]
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Are gyms and serious music quality mutually exclusive?
Is Johnny Cash the ideal music for the gym? He puts a pretty compelling case. His music is almost entirely free of nuance, and nuance is generally lost at the […]
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Question: Which soundbar should I buy?
Q: I come from the era of Enoch Light, four-channel sound, tape recorders and mini discs, and have followed your articles in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Guide for many years. […]
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Car of the week #6: It looked good at the time.
Here’s a joke told by the owners of English sports cars: Question: How do you know the British didn’t invent laptop computers? Answer: They don’t leak oil. Unveiled in 1962 […]
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$135,000. And it’s not even a real one.
Everyone knows that the Australian muscle cars of the late 1960s and early 1970s are worth a lot of money, but things are beginning to get silly. You may think […]
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Things you didn’t know about motoring #5: Ford’s 104-year-old sales record.
In 1916, 55 percent of all the cars in the world were Fords, a record that has never been beaten. Posted February 2020.
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Car of the week #5: It’s one of the world’s top 20 selling cars. Seriously.
2008 was a very odd year for the statisticians who compile car sales figures in the United States. They declared the Toyota Camry the top-selling car of that year with […]
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Dumbest remote in the world or what?
I love my Apple TV despite its dreadful remote control. I bought a first-generation Apple TV when streaming, or more precisely Netflix, started to become an issue. When the guy […]
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Things you didn’t know about motoring #4: Cows: Their contribution to road safety.
In 1911 the first centre line was painted on an American road in Detroit, the man responsible for it declaring that a leaking milk van that left a white line […]