When Uber arrived in Australia, I was a shareholder in a local taxi company. For no other reason than I needed the money to –reinvest in my car dealerships – Northstar Motor Group – I pulled my $750,000. By accident it was the best move financially I ever made, as the value of that company […]
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Tesla Roadster. 0-100 in 1.9 seconds? Top speed of 400 kph? What comes after Ludicrous? Hi there, Bob Aldons, The Car Guy reporting on the Tesla Roadster (and Tesla Semi) revealed yesterday. The doubters were out in force when Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone back in 2007 – just 10 years ago. Hail the
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The Volkswagen Golf has always been fun to drive — now the interior’s fun, too Before I comment on this report, I want to get something off my chest. I read a report on GoAuto News Premium last night about comments that Volkswagen Australia CEO Michael Bartsch had to say about his Australian dealers. Bartsch
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Whats an Holden Equinox? Or how about just an Equinox? According to all things Google, here’s the definition. equinox noun the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator when day and night are of equal length (about 22 September and 20 March). It’s really strange how manufacturers choose
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Hi there. Bob Aldons, The Car Guy with a recent press release from BMW. The third generation BMW X3 has been announced for Australia. So here’s what BMW has to say about the new X3 Third-generation BMW X3 set for 2017 Australian debut New platform offers improved passenger space and cabin versatility Reduced weight and
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It will be interesting to see the take-up of the new Mercedes-Benz X-Class after initial interest. The X-Class, really a Nissan Navarra is priced from around $52,000 drive away in Queensland with a 2.3-litre diesel engine, manual transmission and an alloy tray body up to around $70,000 for a double cab auto. A similar Nissan sells for
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Jeep has released (almost) all of the details on the new Jeep JL Wrangler at Sema My sincere apologies for the problem with my story on the new Jeep JL Wrangler last week. Gremlins got into my WordPress site and whilst I posted a pic and link to the story through Hootsuite, something happened so
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The Koenigsegg Agera RS breaks another high-speed record NOVEMBER 6, 2017 There are fast cars and then there are FAST cars. Volkswagen division Bugatti has held a couple of crazy land speed records for a while until Christian von Koenigsegg’s company decided to put an end to Bugatti being on the top step of the
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BMW X2 – Exciting looks, sparkling dynamics Hello, Bob Aldons, ‘The Car Guy’ with words of wisdom from Bavarian Motor Works. The German automaker, BMW continues to release new models to ‘fill’ in the gaps of their model line-up. There’s no doubt that X2 does that joining X1, X3, X4, X5 and X6 in the
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You only know how good your insurer is when you make a claim – my experience with RACQ Insurance Update 5th November 2017 – I’m very pleased to advise that my claim with RACQ Insurance has been sorted. After a month of backward and forwards with the claims department, I managed to contact the
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