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Oversteer game progress!

Check out these pics of work in progress one of the cars in the OVERSTEER game! What do you reckon it is? No prizes for guessing correctly, just the satisfaction of being smart… We have also set up a page dedicated to the game so you can keep up with the latest developments as they […]

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Transformula One: more than meets the wallet

Okay, so we’ve all seen those “Evolution of Formula 1” videos before, where the cars cycle through the years in an impressive show of CGI skill. This one from Shell is particularly impressive, as is this delightfully elegant one. But this new one is particularly special. It aired before the Brazilian GP and the level […]

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Print a Porsche!

Got a 3D printer? Want a Porsche Cayman? Well, thanks to Porsche, if you have the former you can now also have the latter. Well… kind of. You see Porsche has just released 3D printing data for the Cayman S so you can now literally print your own at home. Don’t get all overcome with […]

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Comedy crash of the week

While every crash in a race is potentially dangerous, few are as comically funny as this one from the final race of the Australian Formula Ford championship in Sydney. Surprising air and wildly flailing suspension are always amusing. Of course, the driver – Simon Hodge – was unhurt. Otherwise it wouldn’t be funny now, would […]

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Allan Moffat, Ford Mustang leading Pete Geoghegan, Ford Falcon. BayPark 1972. IMAGE/terry marshall Classic Motorsport

Blast from the Past: Baypark

It’s Blast from the Past time of week again! This week’s Terry Marshall shot comes from the legendary Baypark raceway in 1972. It shows a pair of equally legendary driver battling it out; Allan Moffat in the Ford Mustang and Pete Geohegan in the Ford Falcon.

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Giving it the RS

RS6, that is. As in Audi RS6; 412kW of power, 700Nm of torque, all-wheel drive, 0 to 100km/h in a claimed 3.9 seconds (but it is actually faster than that…). That is what we had to play with today. Here is a quick teaser of some of the AWESOME footage we got. A full video […]

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Bye bye Commodore…

In an announcement that held no great surprises to anyone paying attention, General Motors today announced that Holden would “transition to a national sales company in Australia and New Zealand”. Which means goodbye to the venerable Commodore. Holden will discontinue vehicle and engine manufacturing and “significantly reduce” its engineering operations by the end of 2017, […]

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Steeri

Voice control. It’s just great. Of course, by “great” we actually mean “frustrating, annoying and not worth the effort”. But we are sure it will get better. Still, until that point in the far-off future, we will still find it far easier to simply push a few buttons instead. A damn fine example of how […]

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