Toyota Australia has donated a one-off 1.8 litre Yaris to the division of Wodonga TAFE, Motorsports Training Australia (MTA) to support the next generation of automotive engineers.
The Yaris will be used by students in the Certificate III in Motorsport course to further develop their mechanical engineering skills.
The MTA Motorsport program, which has been running for [...]

Once the domain of males, the iconic Australian ute is fast becoming a “sexy” option for women.
A recent national survey has found four out of five people thought perceptions of women driving utes had completely changed. Just one in five still view the ute as a man’s car.
Claire Tynan, boss of Mahindra Automotive Australia which [...]

Despite fears that recent high prices would continue to rise with no end in sight, a new price war between fuel retailers has seen the cost of petrol easing in the past week.
While wholesale prices have climbed to around 121 cents a litre, the average national price for unleaded petrol on Friday was 128.8 cents.
Motorists [...]

Running on empty?
Well, in future your backyard household waste could be the key to fueling the family sedan. The Victorian Government and a consortium of companies is assessing the viability of a ground-breaking green fuel plant for the state that uses garbage.
If successful the $400 million plant could produce more than 200 million litres [...]

The Victorian Government took delivery of its latest high-performance car last week when police officers nabbed F1 driver Lewis Hamilton doing a burnout outside the Albert Park F1 circuit in the lead-up to the big race. Chalk another big PR result up to the anti-hoon laws.
Twenty-five-year-old Hamilton’s borrowed $165,000 C 63 AMG Mercedes-Benz, on loan [...]

Tighter lending criteria and the first home owners’ grant have caused a 13 per cent downturn in demand for new car credit among young drivers.
February credit statistics from vedaauto.com show the biggest drop in credit demand was in the 18-24-year-old group, followed by over-65s and 25-34 (-9%), 55-64 and 35-44 (-5%) and 45-to-54 (-2%). [...]

The Queensland Government has released a discussion paper outlining plans to reduce the state’s blood alcohol limit for drivers from 0.05 to 0.02 per cent.
The new limit would bring Queensland in line with Sweden and Norway, which record the lowest road toll figures in the world.
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says she believes the reduced limit [...]

New child-restraint laws are being enacted across Australia right now, placing a hefty burden of additional responsibility on parents. Babies up to six months must ride in rear-facing baby capsules, while children from six months to four years must be secured in an approved child restraint, and from four years to seven kids must ride [...]

Figures released by the NSW Audit Office reveal that school zone speed limits are being ignored by many motorists.
Auditor-General, Peter Achterstraat said although casualty numbers have dropped, ten out of 12 schools surveyed said that speeding was an ongoing problem.
“Only two out of 12 school zones surveyed saw motorists slow down to the speed limit,” [...]

With the roll-out of the first batch of 200 new digital cameras now under way in NSW, lead-footed motorists are at risk of being penalised twice if they speed through a red light.
The new cameras, capable of detecting both speeding and red light offences in the same moment, could see drivers losing their licence in [...]