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Car of the year
An art installation that has a rock crushing a Tesla

Road Test – Great Wall Motors Ora

Electric car
Comment from one of our Interns – a young persons perspective
Comments from Dean

Phillip Island Classic

Chat to Fred about the major historic car racing event last weekend at Phillip Island
At the event there was a 1946 Maybach – a racing car that was made up from a World War II scout car – a great example of building something from what was available

Highlights from the program

00:02:39 – BBC Car of the year is electric

The BBC, The British Top Gear have given their car of the year to the Ionic 5 an electric vehicle. Times have changed a bit since Jeremy Clarkson was there. I don’t see him as being one who would normally award an electric vehicle.

Are car of the year awards definitive or at best indicative
They are still making an Australian version of Top Gear – Why

00:05:46 – The motor vehicle in art.

A sculpture of a large stone head crushing a Tesla

Art can mean different things to different people. Is this a comment about:

electric vehicles,
a general problem with Tesla cars or an anti Musk statement? I
It might even be lament that ancient stone headed traditions can squash project or. It might also be a cry to reject modern civilisation and a longing for ancient culture, because the head was one in the style of the old mech civilization which developed in the lowlands of South.
Kim Bow wrote in and said it is a “New high visual impact, no parking signs”
Brett McGrath said “I’m surprised it being the Tesla didn’t catch fire”

00:08:26 – Great Wall Motors Ora Electric vehicle

The Great Wall Motors Aura is a little-ish electric car. Now we have tested one in the past, but with this one we got was a long range. It had a bigger battery.

00:11:12 – Ora road test from a young person’s perspective

First drive of an electric car
Regenerative braking needs getting use to
New technology with the interface with controls is certainly different
Different look: How would your peer group react?
Electric vehicles might suit young people because they need less maintenance

00:18:51 – Car looks and being driven to school

Is it the car or the parents that are an embarrassment?

00:20:12 – Artist Deal Oliver talks about the Ora design

Electric cars mean we are in a post radiator aspect of design
The Ora looks a bit like a Mr Potato Head car

00:27:26 – The Phillip Island Classic Festival of motorsport.

The biggest historic racing meeting in the Southern hemisphere
1946 Maybach – cobbled together from a German WW2 Scout vehicle
50^th anniversary of L34 Torana (a GM sedan muscle car in Australia). Were there more on display than were ever made?