Author page: Robert Pepper

Two new utes launching into an ultra-competitive market. One's a gamechanger, the other is not. You never know till you drive it, but what does the Tasman offer that we can't already have? Not power. Not an innovative drivetrain. Not a super…

The BYD Shark represent a brand new class of vehicle for Australia, a series-hybrid 4x4 ute, so no wonder there's lot of misconceptions. Hybrids and even series hybrids aren't new, but now we're into the 4x4/ute/tow market and these people want…

On Sunday 27th of October a hill climb amateur motorsport event was held at the Rob Roy track in Christmas Hills, Melbourne. This marked the first time that an event was exclusively run for electric vehicles only, and battery-electric at that. The…

BYD have released their new Shark 6 ute, their first 4x4, their first ute, and the first PHEV ute on the Australian market. It's not the first PHEV offroader, as certainly Range Rover got there first with the Range Rover Sport PHEV,…

A YouTube commenter suggested that portal axles mean a vehicle is taller than the equivalent without. While it's true that vehicles modified with portals are often taller than the original, it doesn't need to be that way because the modified vehicles…

The Unimog U1700L was used in the Australian Army and now many are owned privately. An owner requested some help with driving and winching, so helped him and made a video! Watch to learn all about the Unimog U1700L, it's…

That's a bit like asking if playing chess is fun, or if wine tastes good. It's entirely subjective. But in the case of 'fun to drive' there is a way to remove some of the subjectivity. One aspect of 'fun' is challenge-reward,…

A YouTube channel member suggested that I make a conversion table, so here it is! This is the video that inspired the request:

We all know that Logan Sargeant had a pretty bad crash at Zandvoort during free-practice 3. That was the straw that broke the camel's back, or more accurately snapped the last thread of James Vowles' patience. But I don't think it was…