Media Releases

Recent claims that daytime headlight use will not lower the road toll are completely out of tune with the best available research, says one of the country’s leading road safety experts.

Clive Matthew-Wilson, editor of the car buyers’ Dog & Lemon Guide, says virtually all international research has shown that daytime running lights can significantly lower the road toll.

Ten leading American ecological scientists have sent a letter to President Bush and the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, urging that current biofuels policies be reversed. The letter said:

“We write to call your attention to recent research indicating that many anticipated biofuels will actually exacerbate global warming.”

The government’s proposed new motorway is an act of insanity, says the car buyers’ Dog & Lemon Guide.

Editor Clive Matthew-Wilson said today,

“For the last three decades governments have been building motorways in order to solve Auckland’s traffic congestion, and the congestion has only become worse.”

“Building more roads will simply encourage further use of cars at a time of high oil prices and global warming. It will also worsen the country’s trade deficit as we import more cars and more fuel to power them.”

The closure of the Mitsubishi Motors plant is one more nail in the coffin of the Australian assembly industry, says a leading car expert.

Clive Matthew-Wilson, editor of the car buyers’ Dog & Lemon Guide, believes that Ford & Holden will also stop manufacturing in Australia.

“Both Ford & General Motors are in serious trouble globally. Therefore, it seems inevitable that their Australian car assembly operations will be phased out.”