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Whose monumentally stupid idea was it to allow cara-bloody-buggery-vans on the road. When I go on holidays, I don’t inflict it on everyone else one the road. I don’t do 90 in a 100 zone or 80 on 100kph single lane roads do I? No! I have never been able to understand the allure of…

Can someone explain why we have tolls? We pay to build and keep the roads in good condition, then we have to pay if we want to use the good ones. And, at least here in Sydney’s peak hours, it take a similar, if not longer, amount of time to the non-toll roads for the…

Don’t you just hate it when someone changes lanes on you without looking? You’re in front, or behind, but either way over they come. Is she drying her nails? Is he texting? Or worse still it’s a P plater who has just passed the test and so green that experience is a word they can’t…

DUR! Read read read. You can’t abrogate all of your responsibility can you? See what you fancy by going for a drive past some car yards. Do you want new or used? Do you want snob value? Is a badge more important than life itself? You’d be amazed at how many people just HAVE to…

For years we have wondered if speed cameras actually do anything to lower our road deaths. Here is a graph you might find interesting. The countries with the lowest death tolls are the ones with the highest driver education standards. Interestingly some of the countries with the lowest death tolls have the highest speed limits.…

The Lexus IS250c is the Lexus convertible in the IS range. We’ll talk more about the car later but for now just a few pics of the week at Byron Bay. The weather came over all emotional soon after we arrived. The roof-down action was a bit how’s-your-father much of the time but the second…

If mummy says you can have something special, you come over all a quiver. In the flurry of test driving and talking turkey, the salesman has showed you a way you can get yourself into your shiny toy. You’ve signed you life away and before you know it you have the wind in your hair…

I was asked recently if a couple of boys could live with a convertible as their only car. Could you really go for a week away? Could you do the shopping? Just how many David Jones bags will fit in the back? We took the gorgeous Lexus IS250c on one of our famous Aussie Road…

The salesman will try and flog you stuff for your car. Everything from GPS to mats to sill protectors. With most cars, little extras could add 10 or 20% to your ticket price. There are some things you can’t do without. Bluetooth is one that should be standard, but if not then it’s worth it.…