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  The Batmobile was a Ford!

  December 6, 2014 / 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

  October 3, 2014 / 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

  July 11, 2014 / 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

  December 20, 2013 / 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.

  November 25, 2013 / 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 […]

   

• The cars that cut it at five-star hotels

  November 17, 2013 / 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 […]

   

• The world’s biggest car audio competition was all my fault

  November 17, 2013 / 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 […]

   

• Assisting our readers in life’s little vicissitudes

  November 17, 2013 / 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 […]

   

• Confessions of a service manager

  November 17, 2013 / 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 […]