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Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
IT USED TO BE that the only thing you needed to keep in mind when crossing a state border was make sure you had jettisoned any fruit, but the constantly changing road rules, and how much they vary from one state to another, can create problems for the unwary traveller. Toll Roads. The increasing number […]
Ian Crawford tests the 2019 Mazda CX-9 with pricing, specs, ride and handling, safety, verdict and everything the over-50 driver needs to know. Summary: Further refinements to noise, vibration and harshness, suspension and steering, plus new inclusions will put the new big Mazda on plenty of over-50s shopping lists. 2019 Mazda CX-9 SUV Pricing: $44,990 (Sport, FWD) […]
IF YOU WANT TO SPEND YOUR SUPER before the next financial meltdown, this may be the ideal option: Lamborghini’s new Huracán EVO V10 supercar. The new model is based on the Huracán Performante (why does everything sound so much sexier in Italian?) and incorporates, in Lamborghini’s words, “next-generation vehicle dynamic control and aerodynamics”. The Huracán […]
FILLING THE TANK used to be relatively straightforward, but these days, pulling into a service station immediately means you need to make a number of decisions. Like most people, you are probably confused about the vast range of fuels on offer, and just to ensure total confusion, retailers use different labels for their fuels. While […]
EXITING A CAR PARK, service station or even a private driveway can be quite a challenge. Just when you see a break in the traffic, you accelerate and collide with a pedestrian or cyclist you didn’t see. It’s an increasingly common occurrence when drivers exit a car-related space such as a supermarket car park or […]
ONE OF THE MOST COMMON areas of dispute for many motorists concerns servicing and, specifically, whether the work has been done satisfactorily and at a fair price. Most drivers aren’t mechanics – if they were, they’d probably do a lot of service work themselves – but it is possible for non-experts to protect themselves against […]
WE’VE HAD A NUMBER OF PEOPLE contact us after receiving a parking infringement notice for parking too close to an intersection. Most of them have no recourse – the Australian Road Rules make it clear that it is an offence for any driver to stop on a road within 20 metres of an intersecting road […]
FOR MANY DRIVERS, the need to change a wheel and tyre has simply never arisen, but a flat tyre can happen to anyone, and usually in the most inconvenient places and at the most inconvenient times. It may appear innocuous, but the car jack is responsible for as many as 40 percent of all deaths […]
NOTHING IS MORE ANNOYING, according to some correspondence we have received, than being pinged for speeding soon after passing a change of speed limit sing. Well, the bad news is that you are expected to be travelling at the posted speed limit from the moment you pass it. Australian Road Rules indicate, “A speed limit […]
AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, car parks are places of motorised chaos, and not much better for the rest of the year either! They are also high risk zones, with distracted pedestrians, frustrated drivers, errant shopping trolleys and, inevitably, collisions occur. You may be surprised to learn that car parks are not officially classified […]
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