Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
WE CAN THANK the Koreans, and especially Hyundai in the first instance and more lately Kia, for the longer warranties now being offered by all of the Top 10 car brands. The last hold-out was
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THERE’S ALWAYS BEEN A SNEAKING SUSPICION that fuel prices are unrelated to anything other than ensuring oil companies make the biggest profit possible. Of course, the huge excise that governments extract from every litre is
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YOU’VE PROBABLY WONDERED why motoring enthusiasts seem to have a preference for rear-wheel drive vehicles, while most car companies are moving across to front-wheel drive. So, is one better than other? And if so, is
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There’s no magic formula for reducing fuel consumption, just a few simple things you can do. A European survey of 5700 people revealed that 76 percent don’t regularly check their tyre pressures, 38 percent leave
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RECENTLY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, a car crashed into a shop on South Road, Edwardstown. Significant damage was done to both the car and the shop, but neither the driver nor anyone else was injured. So
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ONE OF THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING presentations at the International Driverless Cars Conference in Adelaide was made by David Homburg, president of the SA Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects and Adelaide-based principal of global design
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A carless future may be closer than you think. FINLAND IS MOVING to make private cars obsolete within 10 years. While there are no plans to ban motor cars, ambitious plans are under way to
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Would you send a worker into a factory without training? Of course not. But most people who drive for work have never been offered driver training. Seventy-two percent of people who drive for work in
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The short answer is: quite possibly, yes. WHILE THE GENERAL CONSENSUS IS that autonomous cars will reduce the road toll, one speaker at the International Driverless Cars Conference raised some potentially disturbing ethical issues. Associate
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THERE IS SO MUCH CONFUSION about the best way to go about fixing the increasingly chaotic road rules, we seriously wonder if the whole system shouldn’t just be dumped so we can start all over
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