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How to get more from your supercar.
If you’ve spent a million bucks or more on a car you want people to know it, right? And that’s the trouble with garages, they hide your dead sexy supercar […]
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Car of the week #12: Cute car, but only if you don’t drive it.
This is the original Mini, from 1959. The Mini has always been held up as a great design triumph, fitting so much into so little. It was front wheel drive, […]
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Things you didn’t know about motoring 9: Airbags and eardrums.
Airbags were first patented in 1951 (separately in both Germany and the United States) but didn’t turn up in cars until the early 1970s, first in an experimental fleet built […]
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Things you didn’t know about motoring #8: Getting the hell out of Dodge.
If you drive to Perth following the shortest route of national highways you’ll go for 2350 kilometres, from Port Augusta to Mundaring, just east of Perth, without encountering a traffic […]
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Car of the week #11: Dreadful reputation, great car.
One heard terrible stories about Alfa Romeos around the time of the Alfasud, which was early 70s to late 80s. Rust was the biggest issue, the much circulated joke was; […]
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How does one replace a beloved old Loewe CRT television?
Question: We have been living with a lovely Loewe, an old cathode ray tube (CRT) television, up until Covid-19 hit. It hit the TV as well and it gave up […]
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Car of the week 10: Mercedes-Benz 230/250/280SL
Not every car has a patented roof, but in 1965 Daimler-Benz was issued with US patent 3169793 for a “Motor vehicle with a concave top”. It covered one of the […]
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Things you didn’t know about motoring #7: Disc brakes; the popular myth.
Contrary to popular myth modern disc brakes and anti-lock braking systems, or ABS, did not have their beginnings in motor racing, they were actually adapted for motor racing from technology […]
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How a Toyota became spaghetti.
If you had to draw the badge Holden has been using for years could you do it? Here’s a hint; it’s a lion rolling a rock – a depiction that […]