My daily drive is a 74 Super Beetle. The old bug has to be one of the simplest cars to keep running (it's Aussie spec so no injection). On the rare occasion that something does go wrong it can usually be fixed at the side of the road. Even a clutch change only takes two hours.

For me there is only one answer. The Mini Moke.

I do exactly the same thing on my daily commute on the train in Melbourne, Australia. 15 years ago I noticed a very run-down house with a large car under a rotting cover out the front. The house appears to be disused. The yard is waist high with grass and brambles and an eight foot high corrugated iron fence is…

Creationism is a theory. Just like Darwin's evolution is a theory. They both have evidence to support them. They both have their believers and detractors. So I don't know why this particular group has been singled out for such derision on a site that is supposed to be about cars, not religious beliefs. Whether…

Unintended acceleration is far from new. A little story for you. In 1990 my mother was driving her 1989 EA Ford Fairmont Ghia company car near Canberra in Australia. The cruise control was set at 100kph and the car was just loafing along like you would expect. Without warning it started accelerating at full…

No, you are definitely not! I can't see what all the hype is about.

There was one of these in our family for ten years. I loved it. All it needed was a 4AGE in there to make it move. But $2,800!?! More like $1000 here for one of these.

So sorry to hear of the loss of your two canine family members. I can well appreciate why they loved riding in the Rabbit. My dogs, Minnie and Cooper (yes it's deliberate) love riding in the back of my Mini Moke. Once on arriving at the local park my wife removed Cooper's strap a little too early and he leapt over…