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Free gun with every Hummer Sold

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Hummer & Free Gun

In the US a Missouri car dealership offering a free shotgun with every new Hummer sold. Following the recent slow down in GM sales, the dealership decided to sell guns in the same showroom as its cars. It seems it didn’t take long to put two-and-two together. For the full story please visit caradvice.com.au

Queensland considering .0.2 blood alcohol limit

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Police breath testing

The Queensland government is considering lowering the state’s legal blood alcohol limit for motorists to .02. Two countries to have already established a .02 blood-alcohol limit are Norway and Sweden. Both nations have the lowest road toll rates in the world. For the full story please visit themotorreport.com.au

Crashzone - Queensland

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Crashzone in QLD

Crashzone will be visiting repairers in the Brisbane and Gold Coast area from the 9th of March to the 16th of March. If you would like a demonstration or some one on one training during this period please contact  support@crashzone.com.au

Victoria to ban trucks from the right lane

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Truck on Freeway

In a bid to improve road saftey trucks will be banned from the right hand lane on Victoria’s multi lane freeways. The restrictions will apply to all heavy vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Mass over 4.5 tonnes. For the full story please visit themotorreport.com.au

Koenigsegg Agera

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

 Koenigsegg Agera

With a carbon-fibre, kevlar and aluminium honeycomb body weighing in at just 1284kg, the Agera will rocket to 100km/h in 3.1 seconds. Power comes from a 4.7 litre twin turbo V8 pumping out 680KW and 1100NM of torque. For the full story please visit themotorreport.com.au

8.5 million Toyota vehicles recalled

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Toyota president Akio Toyoda

Toyota president Akio Toyoda has formally apologised for the deadly auto defects that have driven the world’s top carmaker into crisis. About 8.5 million Toyota vehicles have been recalled due to issues with sudden unintended acceleration. For the full story please visit news.com.au

The risk of electric shock

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Electric Car

The Risk of electric shock and possible injury or death to repairers of electric vehicles has prompted VACC to call for industry-wide consultation on electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids. VACC is calling on the State and Federal Government to act to address standards, industry training needs and licensing for the service and repair of these vehicles. For the full story please visit the motorreport.com.au

Carlsson C25

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

 Carlsson C25

The C25 is based on the not-slow Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black  pumping out 554kW of power and limited to 1150Nm of torque. One hundred kilometres an hour in just 3.7 seconds. A top speed of 352km/h. For the full story please visit drive.com.au

Red light speeding cameras rolled out in NSW

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Speed Camera

Motorist risk losing all 12 demerit points from their driver’s licence in one hit from new super traffic cameras being rolled out across NSW. The digital cameras, which can detect speeding and red-light-running offences at the same time, can penalise drivers twice. For the full story please visit smh.com.au

Smart Car Vs Mercedes - crash test

Friday, February 19th, 2010