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

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

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

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 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

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

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

New figures released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries this week show that car emissions in Australia have reached a record low. The FCAI had set a target of reducing CO2 emissions from an average 252.4g/km in 2002 to 222g/km by the end of 2010 which has now been exceeded. For the full story please visit themotorreport.com.au

The new S60 is the first car in the world with a system to see pedestrians and brake automatically if there is an chance of a collision. On the safety front, and in addition to the pedestrian-protection system, Volvo is fitting a more-advanced ESP stability system that detects skidding earlier, the City Safety system which brakes automatically to avoid car to car collisions introduced on the XC60 and a new corner traction control system. For the full story please visit carsguide.com.au