In the early 1950s with the US market starting to boom with the economy improving after the Second World War, many companies wanted to get a car to market as more people were looking to buy something for work or play. In addition, new materials were now being used - the war had provided an influx of new technologies and equipment that were now being tested for the automotive … [Read more...]
Summit Roadster
The early years of the Australian motoring industry appears to be very similar to the conditions we seen over the past few decades with manufacturers attempting to beat the imports on price and the Governments of the day desperate to tax the imports yet giving them very big loopholes to avoid paying them! Today however, Free Trade Agreements have reduced the import tax and the … [Read more...]
Vanda Dendrobium D1
At the Geneva Motor Show last year another electric supercar was announced: the Dendrobium D1 - from Singapore. A year (and a bit) has passed and I thought it would be good to see what the current status is. The company behind this supercar is Vanda Electrics, a company that is unwittingly aiming to replicate the evolution of Reliant Cars from the UK and I wrote about them … [Read more...]
The MCV CH4
One of the great things about writing motoring articles is that I find many cars that just didn’t make it. This is one of them from the 1990s and some articles blamed the Internet for its demise, however that really wasn’t the cause for the failure. The story begins in Canada during the early 1990s when a team was formed with many complementary skills and all focused on … [Read more...]
Lazareth Wazuma GT
I have written about products from Lazareth before - I like their balls to create something that is truly unique yet functional. If I had the money I would collect them! They have been busy developing a range of vehicles under the Wazuma name that have a very wide variety of engines yet have similar bodies. The Wazuma GT is one of the range and can be described as a pure two … [Read more...]