Youtube.com Video: Air Powered Car

This compressed air powered car is a much cleaner alternative to a hybrid.

The news article says that it will run 4,500 Km’s on single tank of compressed air, and the motor emits nothing but clean air!

Petrol Stations and Pre-Pay Pumps

In Auckland, just about all petrol stations now loosely adopt the pre-pay system.

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More Car Buying Secrets: Exhaust Emmisions and WOF Standard.

Earlier this year a new LTSA rule  (33001/1 Vehicle Exhaust Emmisons 2006) came into effect.

Aside from giving enforcement authorities like the Police the ability to issue an infringment notice for vehicles which clearly emit smoke, the law has one major effect: Read more about…

Car Buying Tips and Tricks, Inspection Method 1 BRAKING SYSTEM Continued…

If you haven’t caught the previous posts on this inspection method:

Part 1 Click Here   Part 2 Click Here

Once we’ve performed the cursory inspections as above, we’re ready to take the vehicle for a test drive.  At this stage, hopefully you’ll still have the vehicle running. Read more about…

New Zealand And The Boy Racer Problem

After another death involving illegal street racing in Christchurch authorities are considering the possibility of compulsory third party insurance in an effort to curb the ever-increasing problem dubbed as “boy racers”. Read more about…

Would You Ride In The Back Seat Of A Mercedes Benz After This?

This is an amazing photo of a wrecked Mercedes Benz after an incident on the Autobahn.

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Boy Racer Legislation. Are They Targeting The Wrong Group?

Is the Boy Racer Legislation a fair call or is it just there to fill police quotas?  

Speaking to a few car enthusiasts in Auckland, the common opinion reagardng the new legislation Read more about…

How To Blow Up Car In Five Easy Steps - Courtesay of MICHAEL the Petrol-head

This is not a terrorist handguide to a vehicle explosion (Despite the ambiguous title).  For this particular article we shall focus on the destruction of the engine only!

There is an art to blowing up a car Read more about…

The Chrysler ME Four-Twelve A True Supercar

The Chrysler ME Four-Twelve has a 6.0 liter V-12 Engine with 4 x Turbo Chargers.

Producing an astounding 850HP, this thing will do 0-100km/h in 2.9 Seconds, and is not for the faint hearted! Read more about…

NZ Petrol Prices Marching To Own Beat.

World Oil commodity prices have had a large amount of press recently, but it seems New Zealand Prices at times defy the market. Read more about…

Drift Mania BG Drift Team Video from Youtube.com

Drifting Video

Drift Mania BG Drift Team Video from Youtube.com

Young car enthusiasts have embarked on a project to turn their $250 dollar car into a drift project for free with donations submitted on their website to be launched early next week.

James Butterworth, Micheal Kemp, Simon Maddock and Jeremy Harris who have named them selves North Side Custom’s Have embarked on this mission to build their 1986 pillar less Carena (basically it’s a Carola) into a drift car. Read more about…

Robotic Cars Ready to Hit the Highways

Engineers at Stanford University plan to have the worlds first robotic car on the road in less than a year.

The car, which is a Volkswagen Passat wagon dubbed Junior. This car in Stanford newest competitor in a high stakes road race, which is sponsored by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the US Department of Defence’s research and development arm.

The Stanford car will compete in the DARPA Urban Challenge, which the robotic cars will have to drive in a mock city environment. The cars must navigate traffic, merge, aviod obsticles, transverse busy intersections and the hardest one of all, determine who has right of way.