5 Terrain Conquering American SUV’s You’ll Want to Buy
In honour of last week’s Top Gear, broadcast in the UK last a week ago Sunday, we’re going to take the opportunity to look into American SUV’s, and look at them from a modern perspective of car ownership. Staggeringly good value for money, more gadgets and technology than you can shake a stick at and amazingly advanced and powerful engines – American SUVs are doing a lot at the moment to crush the stereotypes surrounding them and provide fantastic transport in both remote areas and around the towns and cities of the USA.
In this article, we’ll be looking at five of the most impressive terrain conquering, modern SUVs from America – and we’ll also see how the number stack up to see if some of these trucks really are as excellent value as they seem.
Best Cars of 2015 – What We’re Looking Forward To
It has been a tumultuous time for the Australian car industry – but the car industry worldwide is booming. We’ve never seen as many vehicles on the world’s roads, and while this is great news for the industry, it has many implications that affect consumers in a number of different ways. From economy to sustainability and efficiency – in this resource guide we look at the best cars of 2015, why we rate them and who we rate them for.
Driving Events Around the World You Need to be a Part Of
The world is full of amazing driving events. As a tool for exploration and freedom, the car is second to none, and for many years now people have been using this fact to its absolute limit – testing both man and machine’s limits in far away lands.
This article looks at driving events, head on, so to speak. We will tackle the issue of what driving event you should choose, why, and what you’ll need to enter.
Australian Roadtrips – 5 Amazing Roads to Take your New Car
As we’ve already found in one of our previous blog posts, Australians love cars. The sense of freedom wouldn’t be complete however without amazing roads and fabulous stretches of tarmac to use them on. Australia has some of the best landscapes in the world, and the ability to drive them in their entirety is a pull for tourists and locals alike. Here is our list of 5 amazing Australian road trips you have to investigate.
Explore the best of Western Australia
How to Jack up a Car – The Right Way to Work Under a Car
When we’re working on our cars, we of course need to make sure that we’re operating safely, efficiently and with a ‘plan B’ on our minds at all times. In this blog post, we’ll look at how to jack up a car, and investigate the best practises when it comes to working underneath and around your vehicles.
How to Jack up a Car – The Surface
Electric Cars in Australia – The Future?
Electric and hybrid vehicles are the talk of the world at the moment when it comes to personal transportation. It makes sense – we’ve got a lot of the world to look after, and in a country as richly diverse and beautiful as Australia, it makes a bit of sense to at least keep half an eye on how EV transportation is developing.
Electric cars have come a long way. Their concept isn’t new – people were imagining a ‘green’ future for Australia’s cars a while ago, but it has not been until fairly recently that they’ve become a proposition that your everyday driver would consider. But are electric cars the future? Here are some issues to consider regarding electric cars in Australia
Survey Summary
Car Driving in Australia
Private Fleet has just completed the most comprehensive survey of its kind ever done in Australia giving a fascinating and sometimes shocking insight into the habits of drivers across the country.
2,500 Australian drivers were surveyed and their responses shed some light on many age old driving questions.
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Oils Ain’t Oils
We can probably all recall the Castrol advertising campaign “Oils Ain’t Oils” with Sol and his gangster friends – designed to introduce the motorist to ‘man made’ synthetic oils.
But what’s the difference, what’s the best and what should YOU use?
School Zone Fiasco
Drivers face unworkable arterial road restrictions, while broader pedestrian safety issues remain ignored
It is 8:54am and I am standing in the middle of a school zone on one of Sydney’s busiest arterial zones holding a Bushnell digital radar gun and hoping like hell I don’t end up getting my head punched in as a result of this little ‘test’. I am trying to look as unlike a police officer as possible, which for me is not difficult.
The radar gun is accurate to plus or minus 1.6km/h according to the manufacturer’s specifications. School is due to begin within six minutes, and hundreds of harried drivers rushing to work are ignoring the 40km/h limit. This is not an exaggeration.
I start measuring speeding, a process I have allocated 10 minutes to – the critical 10 minutes closest to school kick-off. With the aid of the radar gun I record ‘only’ 50 speeders in the space of the next 10 minutes – one every 12 seconds on average – though in reality the actual number of speeding drivers is way beyond the capacity of one operator to measure, at least by a factor of five.
Almost half the traffic is doing it. Cars, semi-trailers, B-doubles, concrete trucks, light commercials and 4WDs. There is no predominant class.
I have decided to record speeding only beyond a self-prescribed 48km/h threshold. Everyone I can ‘ping’ from 20 per cent over the 40km/h limit upwards, basically. There’s no need to distort the results with the minor stuff.
The highest speed offender? Eighty-three kilometres per hour – double the limit, plus a bit. And 13km/h over the road’s 70km/h limit outside school zone times. Average speed of all 50 speedsters? Fifty-seven kilometres per hour.
Later that day, it’s 2:50pm and school will be out in 10 minutes. Another arterial road, another 10-minute window. Result? Forty speeding drivers detected, 75km/h the highest speed, 58km/h the average. Dozens upon dozens more speeding drivers pass unrecorded because I am again unable to keep up measuring and writing the results. The volume of speeding simply exceeds my capacity to measure it.
This would be enough to generate outrage in some camps … but should it?
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