A Mississippi man is under fire from local authorities for fixing potholes in his community using the city's supplies. Over the course of five evenings, Ron Chane, aka the Pothole Patchman, "put the asphalt back where it belongs", ...
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Sports sedan for hot-hatch money – the Holden VF Commodore SS now sells for $41,990, a reduction of $5800 compared with the outgoing model. Based on SV6 specification, the Holden Commodore SS gets front and rear parking sensors, a ...
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If there was one common thread among the four shops visited during the first day of the Chicago Dealer Tour, it's that the retail business here is a family affair. Several stores we toured are in their second, third or fourth generation of ...
Performance, Ride & Handling 3.5 Comfort & Interior 3.5 Quality & Design 3 Value & Features 3.5 Green 3.5 The Nissan Pulsar ST is the base grade in the reborn small-car range, yet it is by far the most convincing model overall. ...
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a hard-hitting contender against better-known German rivals, yet the Lexus IS-F remains a leftfield choice for those in the market for a high-performance luxury four-door. It seems that a slew of luxury features, fiercely competitive ...
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Aluminium is an incredibly popular and versatile modern metal. From the roll of foil that every kitchen can't live without to the super-modern components of fighter jets and sports cars; aluminium is widely used around the globe. ...
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The Honda Accord Euro has been a staple of the mid-sized segment for more than a decade. Its definition of diversity – at least in Australia – may be similar to that of Ron Burgundy’s (there’s no diesel, no hatch, ...
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Performance, Ride & Handling 3 Comfort & Interior 2.5 Quality & Design 1 Value & Features 3.5 Green 3.5 It would be easy to take cheap pot shots at the Chery J3, one of the most recent Chinese-made vehicles to enter the Australian ...
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The Subaru Liberty X is designed to merge the benefits of a high-riding SUV with the look of a traditional family sedan. Launched in September 2012, the Subaru Liberty 2.5X and 3.6X are the single players in an ultra-niche market, ...
Forget everything you’ve read about the Mercedes-Benz A-Class. The first- and second-generation models were practical and relatively affordable, but they were not much fun to drive and looked like the kind of cars a new-age ...
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The Hyundai Elantra is another one of those small cars that is more mid-size when it comes to interior space and luggage capacity. Launched in Australia in June 2011, the fifth-generation Hyundai Elantra is the Korean carmaker’s ...
It’s everyone’s least-favorite time of year again: tax time. For the less-tidy among us, this means a mad scramble to pull together receipts and documents and forms. But no matter how well-organized you are, there’s always ...
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Our Rating: Performance, Ride & Handling 4 Comfort and Interior 4.5 Quality & Design 4.5 Value & Features 3.5 Safety 5 Green 3.5 Few nameplates say ‘executive express’ quite as succinctly as the BMW 550i. For ...
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There's no external AMG badge but the Mercedes-Benz C250 Coupe Sport sprinkles some of the performance division's magic dust over the mid-spec compact two-door. The Sport part of the badge arrives more than a year after the launch of the ...
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The facelifted BMW 7 Series is the latest shot in the relentless game of luxury-limousine one-upmanship. Four years after the launch of Munich’s fifth-generation flagship, the ‘Life-Cycle Impulse’ (BMW-speak for a ...
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