More in A modest member of the motoring industry
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The Batmobile was a Ford!
/ A modest member of the motoring industry, Car features, Motoring
Now here’s something for Batophiles to ponder; the design origins of the original Batmobile do not lie with the winged nocturnal beings that inspired radar and sleep upside down. Nope, […]
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Confessions of car advertising – a cruel pastime
/ A modest member of the motoring industry, Car features, Motoring, Rod’s Blog
Years ago I worked for a struggling car importer where every dollar was precious. That made it hard when it came to advertising. One of our models was an SUV […]
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The bitter truth about government fuel tests
/ A modest member of the motoring industry, Car features, Motoring
A work colleague asks me why my fuel figures are always so different to the official ones and I explain the process involved in arriving at those official figures. She’s […]
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Holden: A disaster we saw coming 20 years ago
/ A modest member of the motoring industry, Car features, Motoring
Up until 1984 Australians mostly bought locally made cars. That was because government legislation ensured they did. But with the lifting of local content restrictions by the Hawke Labor government […]
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What’s in a badge? Subaru finds out the hard way.
/ A modest member of the motoring industry, Motoring
There was an extremely subtle change made by Subaru in 2005 when it introduced an updated Forester, I wonder if I was the only person who noticed. It dropped badging […]
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The cars that cut it at five-star hotels
/ A modest member of the motoring industry, Car features, Motoring
Your car may be expensive and new, it may have had critics raving in magazines and eyebrows lifting in Cross Street, it may have even scored a cool from the […]
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The world’s biggest car audio competition was all my fault
/ A modest member of the motoring industry, Car features, Motoring, Rod’s Blog
Greenville, South Carolina, is not a large town. When the International Auto Sound Challenge Association held the world’s biggest car audio competition there it was pretty much the biggest thing […]
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Assisting our readers in life’s little vicissitudes
/ A modest member of the motoring industry, Motoring
Dear Editor, I recently got a quote on a new Toyota Corolla and while the salesperson was totally negotiable on just about everything, the one thing she wouldn’t touch was the […]
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Confessions of a service manager
/ A modest member of the motoring industry
Want to know what I like? I like factory-sponsored free air conditioning campaigns. Want to know what I hate? I hate the new car sales department. Sales people will give […]