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Best classic cars
By Mark Hinchliffe · 18 Apr 2011
Ford and Holden battle for first place in the top ten classic cars
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Around the tracks 4 March 2011
By Paul Gover · 03 Mar 2011
STEVEN Richards has signed to race the V8 Supercar endurance races with former full-time employer, Ford Performance Racing. The two-time Bathurst winner will partner Mark Winterbottom while long-time enduro racer Luke Youlden will drive with Will Davison in the other FPR car. Winterbottom and Richards have driven together before with Bathurst and Sandown 500 victories.AFTER 15 years as a full-time V8 Supercar driver, Steven Richards will follow his father, Jim, into racing Porsches.  He will compete in a full season of the Porsche Carrera Cup in a 911 GT3 Cup. His first race will be at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix from March 24-27. "Our aim for this year is to win the championship. It won't be easy. It's a competitive field," he says.SPANIARD Carlos Checa became the first rider to score a world Superbike clean sweep at Phillip Island since 2008 when he won both 22-lap races at the weekend. The Ducati rider was followed by world champion Max Biaggi of Italy on his Aprilia in both races. Briton Leon Haslam (BMW) and MotoGP convert Marco Melandri (Yamaha) claimed the final spots on the two podiums. The last rider to win both races at a Phillip Island WSBK round was Australia's Troy Bayliss. It is now the longest period since a local rider won at the island. Australians Troy Corser (BMW), Josh Waters (Suzuki), Mark Aitchison (Kawasaki) and wildcard entry Bryan Staring of Perth (Kawasaki) finished well down the order. Round two of the championship will be held at Donington from March 25-27, where Australian Chris Vermeulen is expected to compete after sitting out round one to allow his injured left knee more time to recover.NEWCASTLE'S Broc Parkes was pipped by 0.009 seconds for victory in the 21-lap World Supersports race at the weekend, but it was still his best result at Phillip Island. The Kawasaki rider was beaten by Yamaha's Luca Scassa, with Briton Sam Lowes (Honda) and Spaniard David Salom (Kawasaki) also involved in the drag to the finish line. It was Scassa's first World Supersport victory.BMW rider Glenn Allerton dominated the two Australian Superbike races at Phillip Island at the weekend. In the first race he gambled with slicks on a damp circuit to win by more than 20 seconds. He also won the second race on a dry circuit by a comfortable margin. Allerton is 13 points ahead of Suzuki rider Troy Herfoss who is only one point ahead of Arpilia rider Ben Atard. The championship continues this weekend at Symmons Plains in Tasmania.THE Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship will support two V8 Supercar rounds this year at Winton, Victoria, in May and Darwin in November. Organisers are also negotiating for a seventh round to be added to its 2011 calendar and have announced a "budget" race entry fee of $1600 per car, per round.FORD stalwart Dick Johnson will drive a GM product in his fourth Targa Tasmania. The five-time Australian Touring Car Champion and V8 Supercars Hall of Fame member will drive a V8-powered 2009 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 in the the 20th anniversary of the Targa in April.  The only Ford link for Johnson is that the car is owned by Yellow Cab owner Neill Ford, one of Dick Johnson Racing's sponsors.CHAD Reed has clung to third in the American and World Supercross after a dramatic clash with rival James Stewart in Atlanta at the weekend. The Australian led for 16 of the 20 laps, but collided with Stewart to finish third for the main event and hold on to third in the standings behind Americans Ryan Villopoto and Ryan Dungey. The next event is at Daytona this weekend. (March 5) ITEM DEFENDING kart champions Matthew Wall, Cian Fothergill and Pierce Lehane dominated their categories at round one of the CIK Stars of Karting Series in Ipswich at the weekend. Round two of the national series will be held in Adelaide on April 2-3.MARCOS Ambrose has jumped 10 places in the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings with a 16th at Phoenix at the weekend following a 17-car pile-up in the opening-round Daytona 500 the previous week. At one stage he was running second until a race caution put him a lap down. "I know I've got great stuff and I know I can really do well," the Ford driver said after the race. The race was won by Jeff Gordon (Chevrolet), while second-placed Kyle Bushc (Toyota) leads the standings. The next round is this weekend in Las Vegas.LUKE Ellery leaves for Florida next Saturday (March 12) to race in the first round of the F2000 series at Sebring March 17-18 and Petersburg on March 26-27. The 21-year-old Victorian will then fly home and return to the US for the third round in Indianapolis in May. The IndyCar hopeful is a former national kart champion and three-time state Formula Ford champion. He will drive a Van Dieman for JDC Motorsports in the US series.
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Europe back in business at Geneva Motor Show
By Paul Gover · 02 Mar 2011
The first major European motor show of 2011, at Geneva in Switzerland, is packed with mouth watering newcomers in every size and price class. The top ended action is dominated by a supercar stoush between Ferrari and Lamborghini, but there is also everything from a new $15,500 Kia Rio - and a baby Picanto from the same company - to a second take on Toyota's make-or-break FT86 sports coupe and the Subaru version of the same machine. Geneva is only a small show - at least compared to the giants at Frankfurt and Tokyo - but the 2011 even has a huge impact and reflects the renewed confidence among the world's carmakers. They are spending big, on everything from dream machines through to new technology, as they gear up again for a showroom splurge after the doom and gloom of the Global Financial Crisis. There are close to 20 global firsts at Geneva, from the Audi A3 sedan to the Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet, all jostling for attention and mostly expected in Australia inside the next year. The Chevrolet Cruze hatchback becomes a Holden later this year, Saab has just confirmed its plans for the 9-5 Estate, Mercedes-Benz will push hard with the droptop SLK and new C-Class coupe, and Citroen will push more style with the DS4 hatchback as the next of its DS design- driven family. But Geneva has always been a future show and this year's event is no different. There are more than a dozen concept cars, from the minimalist Mini Rocketman through to Volkswagen's battery-powered Kombi concept. Even Rolls-Royce is playing the future game at Geneva, unveiling a plug-in electric version of its $1 million-and-more Phantom flagship. The Honda Jazz also gets the sparky treatment in Switzerland, just like a new Opel electric concept and BMW's 1 Series plug-in.  Geneva is a spring fling for carmakers but the impact will be felt quickly in showrooms around the world, including Australia, with much more to come as the electrification of the car business picks up pace.  
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Dick Johnson to race Targa Tasmania
By Stuart Innes · 24 Feb 2011
But the Ford race legend will be in a GM product - a 2008 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 which means it comes complete with seven-litre V8 engine.My plan is to exercise caution," says Johnson, now aged 65.His Dick Johnson Racing outfit, having taken James Courtney to be reigning V8 Supercar Champion, has its two Jim Beam Falcons in the hands of Steve Johnson and rookie James Moffat, to hit the track at the Clipsal 500 Adelaide three weeks from now after which he prepares for Targa Tasmania, April 5-10.Johnson will drive the Corvette coupe at the invitation of its owner Neill Ford who is a long-time Targa competitor and whose business Yellow Cab is a DJR sponsor in V8s.Three-time winner of the Bathurst touring car race and twice Sandown 500 winner, Johnson will be having his fourth drive in Targa Tasmania, which uses public roads closed to normal traffic over long competitive stages twisting through hills."It's a great event to participate in," Johnson said.  "I drove a Maserati Marchetta which was an open-top car  I have never been so cold and wet in my entire life. This time, thankfully, I've got a roof."Asked if he would be doing any pre-event testing to get familiar with the powerhouse Corvette, typically jocular Johnson said "It depends how far it is from aif parc ferme aifto the start line."Fellow touring car champion (with four titles) Jim Richards, a former race circuit rival of Johnson, has become the king of Targa Tasmania with a string of victories in Porsche cars.
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Holden admits to tough year
By Neil Dowling · 23 Dec 2010
For the first time, Holden's chairman and managing director, Mike Devereux, reveals the pain of the Global Financial Crisis and how it ripped away Holden's vital 50,000-car Pontiac G8 export contract "literally overnight"."The last 18 months were the toughest in history," he says.But he says his company has done an amazing turnaround.It will early next year announce a multi-million dollar profit for 2010 - its first annual positive-figure posting for five years.It has put its employees back to full-time work after a job-sharing program. It has recently added 165 staff to its Adelaide plant and more may come if Holden can wrest a substantial US police vehicle contract.It has five of its staff on international assignment in other parts of the GM world for every one from other countries working in Australia.Holden has financially embarked on a venture to produce ethanol fuel from household waste as it expands its alternative fuel models, and within 18 months will launch 10 new or refreshed models.Pivotal to the turnaround has been Holden's role in the design and creation of new vehicles."Look at the car they chose to rev-in the day's trading when GM went public last month - Chevrolet Camaro," Devereux says."The quintessential, all-American muscle car and hero of movies like Transformers. A car designed and engineered by the (Holden) team, tested at Lang Lang and made in Oshawa, Ontario in Canada."Welcome to the new GM, where one of the most loved American cars of all time can be designed and built by two members of the Commonwealth - and they can do it better than anyone else in the world. The all-American, Australian-designed, Canadian-built car."Devereux says this ability by Holden to adapt to niche, international market needs led to its bid for manufacture of the Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol Vehicles (PPVs). It eases some of the pain caused by the loss of the Pontiac G8 program."Chevrolet is in the middle of a 20-city ride and drive test program," he says of the trial long wheelbase models built in Australia and sent to the US. "Five of the 20 cities have been completed. We know we have the superior product ... and expect results in the first quarter."Concurrently, Holden is building pilot vehicles for police authorities in nine US states that have accepted its tender for a "detective" version of the Caprice. Production starts next month."We're not in a position to disclose the number of orders in the system at this time but we're confident the orders will continue to ramp up in the new year," Devereux says.He says the company is as much a net exporter of talent and software as it is of vehicle hardware.But aside from being known as a leader in rear-wheel drive cars, Devereux says Holden is working on the future."EN-V (Electric Networked-Vehicle) is Holden's space-age vision for the future of city motoring and was showcased at this year's International Expo in Shanghai," he says."It's an all-electric, zero-emissions, self-driving, two-wheel concept vehicle designed to help overcome big city issues like traffic congestion, parking availability and air quality. EN-V highlighted the advanced design capabilities of Australian car designers - but it also showed Holden is developing the showroom of the future - and that showroom will have something for everyone."
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Neiman Marcus Catalogue 2010
By Karla Pincott · 26 Nov 2010
Buyers snapped up the 100 special cars almost before the famed US department store could raise the curtain on it.The Neiman Marcus Edition Camaro is powered by a 6.2-litre V8 with enough blistering torque to make taking off from the lights a severe risk of peeling the exclusive metallic Bordeaux paintwork – and embedding the occupants irretrievably deep into the amber and black leather upholstery.But the cars are not unreasonably priced at $75,000 each. And would be quite a sensible gift. Especially when compared with some of the other items in the Christmas catalogue.Because while the excesses of the catalogue have been tamed in deference to the continuing fallout in the US from the financial crisis, there’s still enough there to please the smugly well-heeled and obscenely over-indulged.If you want to start training your offspring early, and pitch conspicuous consumption at the child level, there’s more than a mouthful in the $15,000 full-sized gingerbread playhouse. Built from nearly 100kg of gingerbread, it’s decorated with 200kg of royal icing and thousands of giant cookies, lollipops and sweets. It’s spacious enough for your kiddies to easily play inside it, where they’ll find even more sweets and a lollipop tree. Hopefully there’s a stomach pump in there too. And a junior membership to Jenny Craig.But it’ll keep the rugrats out of your way while you enjoy a $125,000 tequila party with 75 close friends. While you get to keep a bottle of the stuff, it sounds like a lot of money for drinking. But when you do the sums, it’s just $1600 per person – and we’ve seen some colleagues spill more than that on a decent Saturday night.If you prefer to take your liquid externally, there’s a swimming pool installation from internationally acclaimed glass artist Dale Chihuly. The private commission will have Chihuly install a glass sculpture that covers the bottom of your pool, and will give you the effect of paddling around on the Great Barrier Reef. Now, admittedly this is stunning. But it’s also $1.5 million. And you can buy a lot of ferry tickets for that. And a snorkel.Equally beautiful, and just as able to have you swimming on the reef is the catalogue’s $250,000 Metro Houseboat. A luxury floating apartment with walls of translucent aluminium and premium fittings, it offers the prospect of luscious weekends for two. Or the chance to take the Sydney Harbour ferry wars to a whole new level.But when it comes to the ultimate statement, there’s no contest with the $250,000 diamond bracelet with charms commemorating 11 of the most outstanding of the catalogue’s gifts over the years – including an airplane, Chinese junk, hot-air balloon, camel, sarcophagus, buffalo calf, windmill, ostrich, robot, a puppy and a vintage motorcycle. Frankly, it’s hideous.But fortunately they’ve made only one – and we believe that at the time of going to print it was still available, in case you’re interested. And if you are, we have a matching glitter-encrusted souvenir pendant of the Harbour Bridge we can let you have at an extremely reasonable $100,000 or so.
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LA Show looks to the future
By Paul Gover · 25 Nov 2010
The show is upbeat and impressive, with a huge range of preview cars and newcomers. The stands have everything from a new price fighter at Hyundai to a wide range of plug-in electric cars, a couple of serious exotics and even Sharon Stone as the superstar guest at Lotus. It's a massive contrast to 2008, when opening day in LA coincided with the first serious bankruptcy moves involving the Big Three in Washington. On that day, Chrysler could not even afford to turn the lights on at its stand and the whole show looked like a ghost town.   There was doom and gloom with capitals all around. At the time, few people could see any sort of future for the American carmakers, even if Ford has already done a very smart re-structure and was free of debut. General Motors and Chrysler were expected to collapse. This time, the opening in LA coincides with a successful share float for New GM and Chrysler is pumped by new products and a partnership with Fiat that finally promises the sort of cars and trucks that people want in the USA. Sales are up across the board from the disastrous rout in 2009, which cost GM its number one slot to Toyota and made China the world's biggest new-car showroom. There is still plenty of concern about the future in the USA, but it's not just among and about car brands.The overall economy is very weak, although at least people are buying cars again and have recognised that something needs to be done. Even the cars from Detroit have changed. GM still has the sexy new Chevrolet Camaro convertible on its stand in LA but the real feature is the Volt, the world's first workable range-extender hybrid. It has just won Car of the Year honours from the highly-rated Motor Trend magazine and people are queuing to buy one. Some people are saying LA in 2010 is the start of the serious electrification of the automobile. Nissan and Mitsubishi are pushing their plug-ins, there is a car called the Coda that marries California and China for battery power, and the number of hybrids - from Porsche and Benz at the top end to a future Hyundai at the bottom - is serious and impressive. But it's never over. Right now there are just over six weeks to the first major motor show of 2011, in Motown. The Detroit Motor Show is already shaping as the biggest and best for a decade, which is why Carsguide will be there.
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Camaro in hot demand
By Craig Duff · 17 Nov 2010
Last week's "Hottest Car" award at SEMA is official acknowlegement by the auto aftermarket industry that the Camaro is the most popular car to customise in the US.  The local connection continued when the award was received by Alan Batey, who was Holden's managing director before headed Stateside to become Chevrolet vice-president of sales and service.Batey is the latest in a long line of Holden talent GM has tapped to help its US operations and was at SEMA to oversee the four official Camaro entries on display, though they were hidden among a staggering 130 examples of the model, with everyone from Popular Mechanics to DUB magazine putting Camaros on show."We were naturally thrilled when we saw Camaro collect another accolade for its styling," Holden design director Tony Stolfo says.  "The team in the States did a great job preparing the winning entry for the show, adding even more muscle to what is a special design."Given the Australian connection to the Camaro program, it was nice that Alan Batey, a former Holden man, was there to accept the honour."  The Camaro has already been a huge commercial success for GM, with just under 100,000 cars selling in its first year of production to May this year to outsell it main rival, the Ford Mustang, by almost 20,000 vehicles.It has also been judged the World Car Design of the Year and the "Ideal Vehicle" in the sports car category by AutoPacific, which is decided on interviews with new car owners.And it's the new owners that are interesting GM, with its research showing around half of Camaro buyers are new to the Chevy brand.  That number is expected to grow when the convertible version goes on sale later this year after being previewed at this week's Los Angeles Motor Show.Even the South Africans want to toy with our hot-rod Holdens. Tuning company LupiniPower has launched a 400kW Chevrolet SuperUte pick-up. The car is based on the Commodore SS ute - sold in South Africa as the Chevy Ute SS - with a supercharger fitted to the 6.0-litre V8 and upgraded brakes and suspension.LupiniPower says its automatic SuperUte hits 0-100km/h in 4.5 seconds and is more fuel-efficient than the standard vehicle, claiming 9.9 litres for 100km against the regular model's 10.2 litres/100km.  The company is also offering the same upgrades on the Commodore SS sedan, which South Africans know as a Chevy Lumina.
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Holden cop car closes deals
By Craig Duff · 17 Nov 2010
The Chevrolet Caprice Police Pursuit Vehicle was put up against Ford's ageing Crown Victoria and the new Dodge Charger in a series of on-road tests earlier this year and oupointed its US-built rivals in every aspect from acceleration to braking and outright lap times. That's given the Commodore-based long-wheelbase car the early lead in the sales battle for a market that takes around 70,000 vehicles a year.  Holden will build the Caprice PPV in Australia, with department-specific equipment requested by each police force fitted in the US. Holden spokesman Jonathan Rose says the company has had an encouraging reaction to it's purpose-designed police vehicle, but is still looking to translate that into firm export orders. "We have received initial orders for the Caprice PPV which is very exciting, but we're not in a position to provide full details just yet. The orders we have received so far are from the smaller law enforcement agencies in the US," he says. "We don't expect to receive the larger fleet orders from departments such as Los Angeles and Michigan until the first quarter of next year.  We have already started building pilot vehicles for testing and fleet marketing activities in North America and we will begin building cars for customer orders early in the new year." The Caprice PPV is powered by V8 and V6 engines, though the V8s _ rated at 265kW and 521Nm _ were the ones tested in the Michigan Police Vehicle Evaluation trials and it was the ethanol-boosted E85 version that performed best. It is competing with the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor _ which had been the backbone of the various police department's vehicles - and the Charger Pursuit.  The Crown Victoria is being replaced next year by the Taurus Police Interceptor sedan, which will have a two V6 engines - a 196kW/338Nm 3.5-litre V6 engine and an all-wheel drive model using a 3.5-litre EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 with 272kW/475Nm. Holden and it's parent company GM have invested considerable time and money to customise the Caprice PPV - and an unmarked police equivalent - for the US law-enforcement market. The front seats have been specially designed to sculpt around police equipment belts, inculding the gun, Taser and handcuffs. Trial units were fitted to vehicles for police to evaluate and the resulting shape, foam densities and hard-wearing fabric covers is a result of feedback from police on patrol. The electronics - from stability control to ABS - have also been adapted for police use and the side curtain airbags don't prevent a full-width rear security screen from being fitted. Chevrolet Caprice PPVPrice: $30,995Engine: 6-0-litre V8Power: 265kW at 5300 revsTorque: 521Nm at 4300 revsTransmission: Six-speed automatic, rear-wheel driveSeats: FiveSuspensions: MacPherson strut front, independent spring-over-shocks rearBrakes: 345x30mm ventilated fronts; 342x22mm solid rears.
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Around the tracks 5 November 2010
By Paul Gover · 04 Nov 2010
MARCOS Ambrose has led two consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Races for only the second time in his career. However, luck was against him again with a 34th place at Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama, at the weekend. He was running competitively throughout the event, but a late race bump sent him into a spin, damaging his car, and any chance of victory. Clint Bowyer claimed victory from his Chevrolet teammate Kevin Harvick, in a race that featured 87 lead changes. There are three races left with Denny Hamlin and Harvick within striking distance of series leader Jimmie Johnson.AMERICAN riders continue to dominate in the Australian Super X series. Justin Brayton, Josh Hansen and Kevin Windham again claimed all podium positions in round three at Launceston at the weekend. Brayton won three of the four seven-lap sprints with Hansen winning the third race and remaining on top in the standings. Top Australians were Yamaha rider Jay Marmont, fourth, and Suzuki's Jake Moss who had the fastest lap time of the night and finished fifth. The next round is in Auckland on November 13.AUSTRALIA'S top kart racers are heading to Las Vegas to compete in one of the world's biggest karting events, the SuperNationals. Winner of this year's CIK Stars of Karting Series, Matthew Wall, of Victoria, received funding towards the trip. He will be accompanied on the 40-kart international grid by second-placed Kel Treseder of Bundaberg. They will race in the main event that last year attracted seven-time world Formula One Champion Michael Schumacher, F1 drivers Sebastien Buemi and Nelson Piquet Jnr and world karting champions Marco Ardigo, Bas Lammers, David Fore and Jonathan Thonon. The CIK Stars of Kartin Series was the starting point for racers such as dual V8 Supercar Champion Jamie Whincup and IndyCar Series star Ryan Briscoe.JOHN Bowe is in a race against time to have his classic 1969 Ford Mustang repaired for his home event at Symmons Plains, Tasmania, next week. A major engine failure sidelined him from the Bathurst round of the Touring Car Masters. He has since had difficulty sourcing replacement engine parts. Bowe is in third place in the series.
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