Back in June 2006 Aussie Motoring ran an article on Grease Cars – diesels that had been modified to run on used vegetable oil from fast food outlets. You can read the article by following the link.
Back when Russ Egan wrote that article Grease Cars were confined to the United States but now they’ve arrived [...]
by Stuart Livesey
I’ve been driving now for a few months shy of 40 years and in that time I’ve travelled over some pretty crappy bush roads and tracks. I’ve even had to drive over some fire-trails that simply take your breath away – imagine what it’s like to to not be able to see anything [...]
by Stuart Livesey
I don’t know about you but I’m one of those guys who likes to have lots of buttons and switches, gauges, dials, flashing lights and whirly bits on the dashboard of my car. There may be a bunch of computers driving my car for me but I want to at least pretend that [...]
Well the enquiry into fuel pricing here in Australia has returned its predictable result and we’ll go on facing fuel prices that seem to exploit the Australian motorist. You would think that with three different brands there would be at least some competition but it doesn’t seem to work that way and no one in [...]
by Stuart Livesey
I’m not sure who is the greenest car maker here in Australia … if fact you would have to wonder if anyone has actually compiled such a list … but in Europe Peugeot tops the list as the greenest car maker followed by Fiat, Renault, Toyota and Honda.
BMW and Daimler were at [...]
Queensland issued a wake-up call to Australian car manufacturers today when the Premier, Anna Bligh, announced that the state government fleet was about to undergo a major overhaul and public servants would be driving greener, cleaner vehicles.
She said the number of diesel, hybrid, micro, light and small vehicles in the passenger fleet would be increased [...]
