History of.. Round Australia Car Race : The 1953 ReDeX Around Australia Trial – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
Back before television, the Internet or advertorials the best way to promote your product was for it to make headlines in newspapers across the country. To do that you needed to create some sort of event that was going to capture the attention of the entire nation, so how about a car race that visited […]
History of.. Bathurst Car Race – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
Even people who know very little about cars and motor sport still flicker an eyebrow when ‘Bathurst’ is mentioned. For over 80 years, involving cars and bikes of numerous kinds, motor races have helped make famous a very modest mountain that overlooks the inland New South Wales town of Bathurst. The first 500 Mile race […]
History of.. The Electric Car – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
Australia is about to embark on one of the steepest exposures to new technology ever recorded. Most of the world’s carmakers will within ten years be selling more electric and hybrid vehicles than petrol models. Several prominent brands like Jaguar and Mini will produce nothing but EVs after 2025, yet locally we are only on […]
History of – Toyota Supra – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
We do wonder, looking at the original Supra from 1981, whether someone at Toyota wasn’t just a bit too fond of the Japanese mecha cartooning style and decided to produce a car with similar super robotic attributes. This A60 model was the second version of the Supra and the first to be sold in Australia. […]
Correlation: Car Accidents & Diving in Reverse – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
Looking at the kinds of claims received by Enthusiast Insurance, it seems that reversing is pretty much the most hazardous thing you can do in a motor vehicle. Roundabouts have their perils it is true and a lot of claims stem from people driving too close to the vehicle in front but reversing offers its […]
History of – Bathurst Car Race & Classic Cars – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
Every October since the 1960s, couches across Australia would fill with humans of diverse age and gender to watch an event known simply as ‘Bathurst’. This year, things will be different; our ever-present Pandemic forcing the Great Race back to December with the flag not dropping until around lunchtime. Things were different in 1963 when […]
Safety of Classic Cars – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
While directing arrivals into position at a recent car show, I noticed a large, 1920s American touring car that had gone past its entry point and needed to turn around. Rather than perform a strenuous several-point turn on a narrow road, the driver ‘went bush’, bouncing through a drain, up a slope and back onto […]
History of.. Iconic Cars in Movies – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
Car chases have been a feature of film and television for a century. From North American gangster movies to cheap British murder mysteries, a car chase always sparked up the action. Here at Enthusiast we explore all our favourites.
History of Car Auctions – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
There is nothing that quickens the heart of a dedicated shopper like raising your hand or clicking a mouse to nail an auction sale bargain. During the Age of Lockdown and as conventional forms of commerce faltered, online auctions became an essential part of the vehicle buying process and also a spectator sport. They also […]
History of the Aussie Ute – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
Australia, located as it is a long way from everywhere, has needed to be inventive and self-reliant. This was never more evident than in the early 1930s when the country was beset by a savage and enduring economic Depression. The tale, so history has it, concerns a farmer who could only afford one vehicle which […]