Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
ONE OF THE quiet achievers in the Australian market has been Isuzu. Without too much fanfare or chest-beating, it’s been easily outselling a lot of much higher-profile competitors with its D-Max ute and MU-X SUV.
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THE FAD FOR DRIVING with fog lights on under any conditions has become almost endemic, but drivers make a number of equally annoying decisions about when and how to use the lights on their cars.
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IT IS A CONSTANT SOURCE of amazement that people continue to buy cars without properly test driving them first. Some people are silly enough not to test drive their intended purchase at all! The test
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IT IS THE HOT TOPIC of the moment, and judging by some of the opinions being thrown around, half of us will be driving electric cars within 20 years. But let’s take a more reasoned
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MOST NEW CAR BUYERS will research running costs, fuel consumption, servicing costs and a whole host of other expenses, but often overlook the most crippling cost of all: depreciation. We all know the old saw
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SOME PEOPLE THINK the fuel consumption figure on a new car’s windscreen is an unalterable fact of life, but the simple truth is that most cars’ fuel consumption will vary considerably from the quoted figure.
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Touted as being a major step to reducing driver distraction, it appears some new in-car voice control systems are actually making the problem worse. Research conducted by the US AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has
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AS FAR AS WE KNOW, it hasn’t arrived in Australia as yet, but overseas, drivers are being encouraged to install tracking devices in their vehicles to be rewarded with reduced insurance premiums. It can only
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FORGET THE FATUOUS CLAIM that people are being killed on our roads as a result of speeding, drink driving or failure to wear seat belts (although they are all causes of road fatalities). The real
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WE ARE OFTEN TOLD how new road rules and safety initiatives are responsible for reducing the annual road toll, but just how effective have they really been? Officials are quick to point to short term
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