Auto Mania
The fuel oil crisis. Winners and losers.
Friday, 20 January 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 3 By Dr. Iain Corness
Our fossil fuel is coming to an end, so we are told. As stocks dwindle with our need for oil unabated, the principle of supply and demand continues. As demand…
Slowly, but ever so surely, the Thai market is maturing. The endless stream of pick-ups has started to slow down. Remembering that pick-ups have enjoyed a tax break which other…
Autotrivia Quiz - Friday January 20 - January 26, 2012
Friday, 20 January 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 3 By Dr. Iain Corness
Last week I mentioned that the AC Ace did not start its production life as an AC, but as something else, which was purchased by AC and the Bristol engine…
Ford has just revealed yet another body shell for their favored muscle car, but this time, it’s for the 1967 Mustang Convertible. The price for the beginning part of your…
No wonder the world is in a penurious state, if the example of Proton is anything to go by.
The yellow E30 4 door that runs in the Retro Nitto 3K F5 and F6 classes is for sale. Fitted with a 3 liter Toyota 2JZ (normally aspirated) it certainly…
165 lives were lost and 1,782 people injured from 1,605 road accidents in the first three of the New Year Festival’s “seven dangerous days” according to the Road Safety Centre.
1991 MR2 automatic in pearl white. This car was imported from Japan and has a Thai registration. Designed by Lotus with the original Celica 2000 twin cam 16 valve 163…
Another reason you don’t see many Honda Brios
Friday, 13 January 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 2 By Dr. Iain Corness
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the floods which hit Honda so hard was the reason the cute little Honda Brio was not the sales leader in the…
Autotrivia Quiz - Friday January 13 - January 19, 2012
Friday, 13 January 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 2 By Dr. Iain Corness
Last week I asked who sold their kit car with no assembly instructions, but disassembly instructions instead - what car and why? It was Lotus with their Seven kits.
At this time of year there are always articles in the motoring columns and motoring magazines as to the memorable cars of the year. This is an almost impossible task.…
If you’ve got a $10 head, wear a $10 helmet
Friday, 06 January 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 1 By Dr. Iain Corness
“If you’ve got a $10 head, wear a $10 helmet” was a very famous advertising catch phrase put forward by Bell Helmets in the 1960’s. It really did get the…
Bathurst - Australia’s automotive Melbourne Cup
Friday, 06 January 2012 Issue Vol. XX No. 1 By Dr. Iain Corness
The UK has its Grand National, the US has the Super Bowl and the Kentucky Derby and Australia has the Melbourne Cup. These countries stop for those national events, which…
If you are wondering just what was the car driven by Tom Cruise (in his role as Ethan Hunt) in the latest Mission Impossible movie, it was a BMW i8…
The next car club meeting will be at Jameson’s Irish Pub on Soi AR next to Nova Park.
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