Hi, Bob Aldons, The Car Guy and owner of Car Business, Brisbane Car Broker commenting on a story about ANCAP and its CEO James Goodwin This story, from Automedia Group, was published this week about James Goodwin, the CEO of ANCAP – Australasian New Car Assessment Program. I rely on ANCAP to provide safety statistics on the […]
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Hey there, Bob Aldons, The Car Guy with my review on the popular Mitsubishi Pajero Sport GLX SUV. “MITSUBISHI Motors has been building a passenger SUV based on the Triton ute since 1996 – 22 years. In some parts of the world, it was called a Pajero Sport or Montero right from the start. But
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Hi, Bob Aldons, The Car Guy, with some information about the upcoming release of the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ. The information for this article is taken directly from today’s Australian and authored by Phil King. Phil refers to the price of the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ as $949,690 (plus on-road costs), so I decided to do a little calculation, courtesy
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Hi Bob Aldons, The Car Guy, with a video review from Tom Holland of Throttle House on the Kia Stinger GT V6. I reported on the Kia Stinger 330Si and 2.0 GT Line some months ago and there’s nothing in the ensuing time that has caused me to change my mind. In Canada, where Tom
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Konnichiwa, Bob Aldons, The Car Guy, with a press release from Suzuki Auto Co in Brisbane. Most economical small car to own and operate – Suzuki Swift of courseI’ve been a Suzuki advocate since taking on the Suzuki franchise way back in August 2000. Back then my business partner and I acquired Redcliffe Mitsubishi and Suzuki at Redcliffe from long-term owners Alistair Stewart and Roy Elkington. The Mitsubishi part of the transaction was pretty easy to justify, Suzuki not so much.
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When the Fiat Abarth 124 Spider launched a couple of years ago, I’d just sold my Alfa Romeo 4C and was looking for a replacement. The Alfa Romeo Giulia hadn’t arrived in Australia but it was on my wish list along with a couple of other brands. I read extensively about the Fiat Abarth 124
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It was Goldilocks who started the comparison way back in 1837 – small, middle and large – according to the classification of bear sizes. Hi, Bob Aldons, The Car Guy with my review of the Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross. Moving away from most passenger cars in favour of more popular SUV’s, Mitsubishi has 3 model names
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Hi, Bob Aldons, The Car Guy coming to you from the nearest race track to me, Lakeside International Raceway at Kurwongbah, near Redcliffe. Now, I’m no Craig Lowndes or Danny Ricciardo, but I’ve driven cars at speed over the years. Ferarri 458, Falcon XR8, Chrysler 300 SRT8, and Nissan 370Z at some of the great
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Melbourne apartment taking parking to the next level – Sky Garage. LISA ALLEN from the Australian has an interesting story on a new development in St Kilda. Sign me up Scotty! A Sky garage has become prevalent in Singapore and the USA, and now it’s coming down under. “Forget valet parking. A new apartment block
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What’s in a face? If you’re in the market for a largish Dual Cab 4WD and you’re considering a Mercedes-Benz X Class, here’s a few good reasons why you should look at the birth-mother, the Nissan Navara ST-X 4×4 Auto Dual Cab. Hi, Bob Aldons, The Car Guy with my review of the 2018 Nissan
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