Australia’s peak motoring organisation, the Australian Automobile Association (AAA), has publicly slammed some of the worlds leading car manufacturers for withholding life saving vehicle safety technologies from the Australian public.
AAA Executive Director Mike Harris said the vital safety features, which were standard in vehicles manufactured and sold overseas, were sometimes not included in the […]

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If you’ve ever had any doubts about the ability of stability control to help keep you’re car on track, then you really need to check out this video of stability control in action on the ice.

Here’s an overview of how the whole system works from BMW.

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Effective from July 1, Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) ( also known as Electric Stability Control or Electronic Stability Program) is now fitted as standard equipment on all automatic petrol and XR Falcon sedans, and across the entire Territory range.
DSC has been added to the standard specification of all automatic transmission-equipped petrol Falcon XT, Futura and […]

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Read an interesting post over at Australian Car Advice regarding ANCAP crash test results. Well what interested me most was not actually the post itself, which was basically a reproduction of the June 2007 results, rather some of the comments. Specifically, this comment caught my attention (you can read the full comment here, otherwise I’ve […]

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Interesting article in GoAuto News this morning detailing the failure of Holden’s VE Commodore.
GM Holden has defended the safety of its new VE Commodore following the four-star crash test rating it received last week from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP), whose test results show the billion dollar VE recorded a lower frontal offset […]

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