Posts Tagged ‘Crashzone’
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

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
Tags: car dealership, Crashzone, free Guns, GM, Hummer, Missouri
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Monday, March 15th, 2010

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
Tags: .0.2 blood alcohol limit, breath testing, Crashzone, goverment, Police, Queensland
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Friday, March 5th, 2010

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
Tags: Brisbane, Crashzone, demonstration, Gold Coast, QLD, Queensland, Training
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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
Tags: Crashzone, trucks banned from right lane, Victoria
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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
Tags: Crashzone, Koenigsegg Agera, v8
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Monday, March 1st, 2010

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
Tags: 8.5 million, Akio Toyoda, Crashzone, recall, sudden acceleratuion, Toyota
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010

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
Tags: Crashzone, electric shock, electric vehicles, EVs, hybrids, industry wide consultation, VACC
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

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
Tags: black, Carlsson C25, Crashzone, Mercedes AMG SL65, supercar
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010

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
Tags: Crashzone, losing drivers licence, NSW, red light, speeding camera
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Tags: crashtest, Crashzone, Mercedes, Smart Car
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