You think a new car can make you happy? Maybe it's time to put down that pen, and step calmly out of the dealership. You clearly need a reality reboot.

The 8 seater Kia Carnival smashes most SUVs on key practical criteria. It's hugely versatile - but are you really brave enough to consider owning one?

Being gagged by a carmaker is very, very common. This is the untold story about carmaker customer coercion - duress as a mechanism for shutting you up.

Updated 7/72016: Humanity has recorded its first robot car death after a 40yo man died when his Tesla failed to detect a semi trailer crossing in front

Can you really trust any car review? See how car companies corrupt the review process and learn to differentiate between honest and corrupt reviews

The battle for your right to choose independent car service is being lost in Australia because carmakers are acting like anti-competitive bastards

You think high-priced premium petrol is actually saving you money, or actually cleaning your engine? BP certainly wants you to buy into this utter BS...

The enforcement of Australian Consumer Law by the ACCC is a joke - on you - and some car companies are, consequentially, complete arseholes. 

Is e10 petrol a good idea, or is it (as some mechanics and others suggest) a dirty, cheap fuel that will destroy your engine? Here are the facts.

Diesel engines are getting smaller - with bigger power and torque outputs. Dose this mean, inevitably, they'll also wear out quicker? Let's find out.

If you’ve ever wanted to fire your Thunderball into Octopussy at Casino Royale, while on Her Majesty’s Secret Service, $27,000 is all it takes, almost.

Missy Cummings - one of the US Navy’s first-ever female fighter pilots, who’s an engineering professor at Duke University, rained all over the car industry’s robot car parade, at a recent US Senate Commerce Committee hearing.

Here’s a thing of beauty and a joy to behold. If you’ve always wanted a Bugatti Veyron but had a problem with the million-dollar-plus pricetag, eBay has the answer for you … as long as you don’t mind cutting a few corners. 

You’re parked on the filling station forecourt: You want cheap fuel. Which petrol is really cheapest? Which one drives your dollar further? Let’s see.

GM Holden, Ford and Audi took podium positions on the local lemon cars list, according to Choice - which is like Consumer Reports in the USA, only with anorexia. About two thirds of these vehicles have problems in the first five years - Holden worst, then Ford and Audi - and about one in seven overall of those problems were major.

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The heat in a closed car can be fatal for your pet - in minutes. Here's what you need to know this summer.

HSV's recent GTS-R speculation made ninety-nine out of 100 motoring journalists wet themselves spontaneously … but it’s really a joke on bogans

if you grease nuts/bolts it can increase the torque by 20% I don't know if the mfg figures given are for greased or not

Forced induction is set to get even more popular, and hybrid turbochargers could be tomorrow’s new black