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.. Mini Cooper – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
No automotive design has been more influential than the boxy, front-wheel drive platform revealed in 1959 by the British Motor Corporation. It was code-named ADO15 but enthusiasts across the world know this car and its derivatives as Minis. The distinctive shape was tiny yet offered enough cabin space to accommodate four adults, with a parcel […]
Tips to buying at Car Auctions – Enthusiast Motor Insurance
Lots of us during this time of travel bans and zero interest rates will have toyed with the idea of acquiring another ‘hobby’ vehicle. Or perhaps buying our very first. Throughout our post-2019 world, the prices being sought and sometimes realised by interesting vehicles have been behaving in strangeish ways. However, the numbers on the […]
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.