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Car of the week #2: The BMW 2002 gets serious.
BMW introduced the two-litre 2002 in 1968, two years after introducing the 1602 with a 1.6-litre motor in the same two-door body. The 2002 came about because two of the […]
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Best idea of the year in speakers. And it’s only January.
This is a really clever idea. Isolating speakers from their surroundings, so they are less likely to vibrate, rock or resonate with a floor or shelf, has always been a […]
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The dirty little secret about the Aston Martin in the James Bond movies.
Now here’s something interesting you didn’t think of (well I didn’t think of it anyway) about James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger, the precursor to a heap of highly […]
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How to rescue an old record from a dump and clean it up.
It would surprise no one who saw them that the songs on Australia’s early rock and roll television programs were mimed. What surprised me was how this was done. The […]
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Car of the week #1: Whatever happened to Maybach?
There are two types of Maybach; the originals, creations of Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl after they started their company in 1909, and the ones created by Daimler when […]
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Question: Where are you?
Q Where are you? My husband reads the Age for your green guide articles but you’ve gone missing. Now he’s sad and I can’t cope with a sad husband Kristine […]
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Things you didn’t know about motoring #1: The original ‘no smoking’ car.
The original Range Rover, released in 1970, got clear through to prototype stage before anyone realised there was no ashtray in it. The design team had forgotten to include […]
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UPDATE: How the king of cool makes metal precious.
It is, arguably, the best car chase sequence ever filmed, not least because the Mustang involved was driven by the king of cool himself, Steve McQueen. And now the Highland […]
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Would you buy these headphones?
I have come to accept that there are things my brain will never grasp. E=mc2 for example. American football comes to mind. Anything said by an engineer. But the big […]