Category: Rumour has it

To the producers of the next Fast and the Furious installment: Please, please and please, don’t screw this one up! Spotted on the set of the filming of the latest F&F4 set was this transporter loaded with some juicy old school American muscle cars including a Chevelle SS, a pair of Chargers and a Torino GT. Hell yeah!

Also floating around the WWW are pictures of Vin Diesel (yep, he’s baaaaaaack) with a Grand National and yet a different Chevelle again. Fingers crossed these don’t feature some sort of sadistic FWD naturally aspirated SR20 conversion and are the full, raw pushrod power old school lack of refinement that makes a muscle car great.

All this flick needs now is the absence of NOS stickers and they could well be onto a winner. God knows how they got Vin out of Japan to play the part in this one, we would have thought the American muscle car drifting scene in Japan would have been massive?

Category: Rumour has it

The two original bitter rivals, GM and Ford, have been at opposite ends of the ring since day one and to some people nothing will change, but to others it could well be opposite. Word has it that top GM suits had proposed a merger between the two rivals, one that was apparently shot down in flames before it was even considered.

Now it seems that the idea is being looked at around the industry as one that could very well happen in the future, to create one monolithic domestic manufacturer to tackle the runaway import sales.

But for now one can breathe a sigh of relief as it only took minutes to decapitate the mortal who suggested such a travesty and the two auto making giants still remain bitter enemies to the end. After all, what would become of the V8 Supercars if the two became one?

Category: Rumour has it

It looks as though the Stig mystery may have be finally uncovered thanks to a video recording of a white suited man holding a white helmet was spotted outside of a Top Gear test track.

The unmasked man was immediately recognized as Dutch ace driver Tim Schrick who was recently seen pedaling a Carrera GT at somewhere around mach 37. While this isn’t irrefutable proof as to the Stig’s true identity, and even in fact there is just one Stig, it’s good enough for me and until something else comes along. Who, after all, would walk around a Top Gear test track with Hammond, May and Jeremy on set while wearing a white race suit and helmet if it wasn’t for the ‘true’ Top Gear Stig?

To check out the footage taken of this alleged Stig, click HERE!

Category: Rumour has it

It was only last week we heard about the federal government’s announced tax hike on high-end vehicles, well now the owners of these high-end vehicles are once again in the spotlight and again it’s all to do with tax. Tax is probably one of the most hated words in the English language and when it comes to new news relating to tax, it’s almost never good.

The ATO have announced plans to automatically probe any car owners who had purchased a vehicle over $57,009 between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2007.

All up, around 600,000 taxpayers are expected to be probed which kicks off some time next month with the ATO hoping to remedy the current statistic of nearly a quarter failing to lodge a tax return at least one.