RON? Not your next-door neighbour.

What does the RON number mean in regard to petrol?
Unleaded fuels carry a RON (Research Octane Number) rating. Put simply, RON determines petrol’s ‘anti-knock’ quality or resistance to pre-ignition; or if you want to put in another way, the Octane Number denotes its resistance to detonation.
If you run your [...]

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Last week I was overjoyed to hear that my 63-year-old mother was finally in the market for a new car. My secret master plan was to pick out a future classic for her so that when she was ready to sell it, I’d have a golden opportunity to buy the mintest little-old-lady car on Earth.

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Cairns-based taxi operator Graham Boundy reckons the Toyota Prius is just about the best thing that ever happened to the taxi service, and with approximately 550,000 kilometres under its belt—achieving half the fuel and maintenance costs of other conventionally-powered cars in the taxi fleet—his is a perfect example. Some 32 Prius [...]

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Mitsubishi will be officially unveiling their refreshed 2009 Galant sedan at the Chicago Auto Show next week. Following the now requisite image leak, Mitsubishi have released the official images and press release to give us all a taste of what to expect. The North American Galant has mirrored our own Mitsubishi 380 in much of [...]

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We’ve spent months looking a spy photos and taking in any available detail, real or imagined that hit the internet and now its finally official. Hyundai have unveiled their 2009 Genesis luxury sedan in time for its official debut in Detroit next week. Unfortunately, at this stage, Australia is not on the list of destinations [...]

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The latest wave of hype and speculation has come to an end today with the opening of the Tokyo motor show and the official release of the Subaru WRX STI amongst other iconic Japanese cars such as the Nissan GT-R.

Although no new pictures have been released since our last coverage, Subaru have fed us full [...]

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It seems number plate are more sought after then classic aussie muscle cars if the Australian International Motor Show auction presented by Shannons is anything to go by.

With over $AU2.64 million being spent on the tin plate metal number plates, which incidentally is double what was spent on the car auctions, numberplates stole the [...]

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What you see here is BMW’s sedan version of its new M3. With the M3 Coupe about to feature in the flesh at the Sydney Motor Show it seems somewhat appropriate that BMW should release the official images and specifications for the sedan version.

We haven’t seen a four door M3 for some ten years [...]

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BMW have finally made their new 1-Series Convertible ‘official’ by releasing full details over the weekend. An odd time for a press release but it appears that the official images made an unofficial debut on the net forcing BMW’s hand. So we can now give you the low-down at least from the North American press [...]

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