Name: Michael Adams
Date registered: December 13, 2011
Jan 03
It’s known by many acronyms by different car manufacturers, but there can be no doubt that stability control is becoming a more and more common driver aid fitted to new cars. The Australian government have now made it mandatory on all cars being built here or arriving on our shores. What’s all the fuss about? …
Dec 31
Okay, let’s talk about the Intercooler. Possibly the most argued about, and misunderstood, car component there is, short of the humble blow-off valve (which we’ll discuss another time). The internal combustion engine that we all know and love is known by industrial engineers and science-types as a heat engine. The torque that a car engine …
Dec 28
(Photos to come later) We recently tested 3 luxo-mobiles priced in the $115k – $130k(plus options) Aussie dollar mark in the Upper Yarra Valley of Victoria. Here’s our impressions of them. The 3 vehicles we have assembled are the Audi A6 3.0TFSI, the BMW 535i and, as something of a wild card entry, Jaguar’s XF …
Dec 26
Hachi Roku. These two little words, Japanese for eight-six, invoke immediate images of sliding around mountain corners touge style and going similarly sideways at track drift events. It also brings to mind an affordable, simple, yet practical rear wheel drive hatch and coupe. For reasons of packaging, space and production costs, the Japanese car industry …
Dec 21
Cars make noise. For most of automotive history, people just accepted this as a simple fact of the car world. There are those in this world who build houses next to major freeways and then complain about the speed of the vehicles going past. There are those who build houses next to airports and complain …