How’s this for a serious road test?
Three years, 300 cars, over 10,000 kms on Australia’s worst roads. Now to be fair the cars in this particular test have to be worth $1,000 or less but supervising mechanic Alex Hallowell reckons it says a lot about makes of cars.
Alex is the master of the muddled motor, the champ of the clunkers and the rajah of the rotten ride. In his volunteer life Alex is the top tinkerer for the annual Shitbox Rally. In real life he looks after big Cats for Kerry Stokes’ Westrac so he knows a bit about making machinery reliable.
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