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September 2015


A Singapore traffic jam.

Right now there is $1 billion worth of Lambos driving around Singapore. Given there’s only 164km of fast roads, the whole place would fit into Canberra, and a Lambo costs nearly $2 million (only $754,600 here), that’s not a bad effort by Andy Go


Paul Newman began racing in his late 40s and won his last race aged 82.

Last week I hit the City of Churches, Xenophonville, the place named after Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, home to the biggest glasshouses this side of Jakarta and a commuter’s paradise where there are wide streets and not many cars and everything is 20 minutes away


Don’t lose the keys to the Hilux.

My old friend Ken Waterford rang me yesterday. Ken and Lynee and their two boys, Wylie and Carl, farm wheat on an 810ha property near Come By Chance (pop: 187 when Ken rang) in northern NSW. “John, Wylie is in more trouble than a three-legged frog in a snake pit.


Peter Edwards’ Bentley GT3 race car goes fast, when it goes.

It was just a normal day at Phillip Island for your correspondent from The Weekend Australian Motoring Confidential. There were millions of kamikaze and obviously deaf seagulls sunning themselves on the approach to Lukey Heights, Cape Barren geese eating themselves stupid by the ...