Cars
No monster utes, thanks: Compact Japanese trucks are more than oh-kei
With tiny engines and smaller price tags than monster utes, Japanese kei trucks are finding a devoted fan base in Australia.
- Tom Cowie
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These iconic long-weekend pit stops have saved countless lives. But they are now harder to find
Victoria State Emergency Service figures reveal Driver Reviver sites have fallen by almost a third nationwide since their peak in the early 2000s.
- Lachlan Abbott
Victoria’s first petrol price app could increase prices but is still worthwhile: report
The real-time fuel price disclosures from Victorian petrol stations might save customers only $5 a year, but the $2.4 million-a-year scheme would still be worthwhile, consultants say.
- Madeleine Heffernan
Beneath Sydney, a mini-city is being dug for machines bigger than an aircraft fuselage
Giant caverns – each large enough to house the body of an A380 – will house the boring machines that will carve the road tunnel between Waverton and Birchgrove.
- Matt O'Sullivan
The range of EVs is surging, but certain fears are holding back sales
The absence of a second-hand market for electric vehicles is contributing to doubts consumers have over the long-term viability of these cars.
- Frances Howe
Electric cars died a century ago. Could that happen again?
Battery-operated vehicles were a mainstay on American roads - until politicians put their thumbs on the scale, and came down on the side of the oil industry, and petrol-powered cars.
- Ivan Penn
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
We talk a big game on electric cars, but Australia is stuck in reverse
Australia is viewed as a nation of early technology adopters, but on EVs, it looks increasingly like momentum has stalled.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Opinion
- Opinion
My car kept making a thucka-thucka noise, but no one else could hear it
“What kind of noise?” Glen, the mechanic, asked me. “Like a hollow aluminium chain being dragged across a swamp,” I said. Glen did not reply.
- Nicola Redhouse
- Opinion
- Commuter chaos
‘The right lane is faster’, and other thoughts I don’t appreciate in a traffic jam
When early morning road congestion turns a 20-minute drive into two hours of pain, you’re only ever one late merge away from a mental breakdown.
- Thomas Mitchell
End of the road for freeze on car rego and other fees
The former Queensland Labor government froze the state’s fees and charges in the 2024 budget to provide cost-of-living relief for residents.
- Savannah Meacham
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