Believe it or not, sometimes it is possible for an ordinary consumer like you to have the conviction and resolve to get a great deal on a new car, simply by putting the dealer under pressure…

If you thought caravanning couldn’t get any worse, imagine spending close to six figures and being stuck with an irreparable lemon. Here’s how one unlucky grey nomad couple beat the caravan industry.

This report comes courtesy of the Queensland Consumer Tribunal and it's particularly for you if your reasonably new car just happens to be a lemon. When you drop the big bucks on a new vehicle, this is not how it's supposed to go...

Doubtless you've heard all of the uninformed or misleading hype about electric vehicles. Could you be walking into a financial trap buying a combustion car? Let's talk about future-proofing your next new vehicle purchase…

Brand new limited edition Land Rover Defender watch is kinda from Russia with love, apparently, and in a sense is therefore the anatomy of a ridiculous hilarious scientifically-illiterate marketing own-goal…

If you think buying an EV is going to save you money and the planet, then you've been properly tricked by extremely well-funded vested interests both here in Australia and overseas. They want to keep exploiting hydrocarbon resources while you look the other way…

Safety ratings agency ANCAP has just had a website makeover. But, unwittingly perhaps, they may have created the next safety related new car buying disaster which you need to know about...

The beer garden physics you need to know about off-road, high-tensile drag chain. If you use this in four-wheel drive recovery, is it likely to break, recoil and kill someone?

Dear Electric Vehicle Council, the real world is filing for divorce. How else do you explain this? Here's why getting one million EVs on Australian roads by 2027 is unfeasible bullshit...

Multiple choice question, without warning: hotter, colder, slower, faster - which one of those is true about how the fuel burns if you tip high octane fuel into your car?

Toyota is now giving just one smart key to each of its customers, on 14 different models. But hey, it's not their fault. Thank God for the pandemic, which has become the #1 corporate incompetence justifying excuse...

Volkswagen once again doing exactly what it does best which would be throwing people just like you - its customers - under the bus. Avoid VW at all costs…

The secret beer garden physics of crashes, airbag deployment and the bad driving habits that people like you do every day that could kill you during a crash. Here’s why you need to sit up straight…

When a bunch of angry customers feel they’re not being heard, what other recourse do they have over claims of defective vehicles? Should a formal high-stakes investigation ensue? Let’s see about that…

Just because you buy the wildest, toughest Ford Ranger, is it better than the slightly less exciting Wildtrak, when it comes to towing? Let’s figure that out now…

What happens when you're driving along and suddenly the steering wheel locks on you, seemingly, making it too difficult to manoeuvre? How do you respond and what exactly is the cause? It could happen to anyone, right?

That tailshaft on your car: Is it operating in phase or out of phase? How would you know? Let us drill down into the beer garden engineering of that now...

A tyre company altruistically doing its bit to "save the planet". But you’ll be shocked to learn exactly how filthy the underlying industry actually is. The big tyre corporations won’t like this…

If you are in the market for a new car, doubtless you are watching road tests incessantly. But there's only one problem with those road tests. They suck. Bet you haven't figured out why...

As hateful as space saver spare tyres are, there is a worse alternative which is becoming common in the new car market. This is what happens when cheapskate carmakers stop offering a spare tyre at all…