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| Vote Leanne #1 |
Fleetcare sponsors F3 Racing Car Driver Leanne Tander, who is currently leading the Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship.
She has been nominated for the CAMS Motorsport Personality of the Year.
To show your support and vote for Leanne please click here...
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| Flushed with anger |
800 Beijing motorists are kicking up a stink about rego plates for their new cars that include the letters 'WC'. Along with 'OK', 'hello' and 'bye-bye', the abbreviation for the 'water closet' or toilet, has become a well-used English expression in China and one with which drivers aren't keen to have their cars associated.
The Chinese licensing authority is refusing to back down though, and despite the 'unpleasant images' drivers say the plates conjure up, there is little chance that the WCs will be flushed away anytime soon.
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| Cheesey pickings |
A man caught shoplifting cheese from a supermarket tried to use his cement mixer as a getaway vehicle, according to police in the German town of Limbach-Oberfrohna.
The 55-year-old cement mixer driver was caught by a store detective while pocketing the $5 pack of processed cheese, but he managed to break free and leapt into his vehicle, which was parked outside. He didn't get far though - the cops arrested him when the cement mixer stopped at a red traffic light just a few hundred metres away. |
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| Wwwacky website |
There's nothing more boring to read than a turn of phrase that's passed its sell-by date and that's why the creators of the charmingly named Defective Yeti website - www.defectiveyeti.com/crp/- have launched The Cliché Rotation Project to breathe new life into old sayings.
So, 'looking for a needle in a haystack' becomes 'trying to find a clock in a casino', while 'the blind leading the blind' is now 'enrolling in the Paris and Nicole Academy' and 'you've made your bed now you have to lie in it' is the memorably modern 'you poop it, you scoop it'.
More are needed!
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Volume 12.11
November 2007 |
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Hello Welcome to the November issue of Fleettorque, brought to you by Fleetcare!
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Fleetcare Driver Survey 2007 |
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 Due to unprecedented demand, we are leaving our Driver Survey competition open until Friday 9th November 2007.
Complete our 8 minute survey and you will go in the draw in your State to win an iPod Shuffle or $100 worth of Star Cash fuel vouchers.
Thankyou to those who have already completed the survey.
To take the survey please click here... |
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Novated Christmas Promotion |
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 Contact Fleetcare's Novated Lease Consultants today to find out how you can get a brand new car for Christmas! We will also include a FREE Portable DVD Player and Satellite Navigation System.
Now that will keep the troops happy over Christmas!
Click here for more details... |
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Full speed ahead |
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 This is just one of eight futuristic car designs that have all had the green light from established manufacturers and have been entered for the 2007 Design Challenge at the Los Angeles Motor Show later this month.
The theme for this year's competition is 'Robocar 2057', which has prompted a string of far-out designs by makers including Audi, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and Mazda. Pictured is Mercedes' sci-fi inspired entry, the SilverFlow, which has a micro-metallic body that can be shaped using magnetic fields. It can even be turned into a pool of metallic material for easy storage.
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Ford and Mazda 'Thai' up |
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 The next generation of Mazda 2s and Ford Fiestas to hit our streets will be coming direct from Thailand, where the two big firms are expanding their joint production plant.
Though still to be unveiled, the new Fiesta will be built on the same platform as the new Mazda 2 and both will be manufactured at the AutoAlliance Thailand facilities south-east of Bangkok, which the manufacturers share. This production synergy, as well as the notoriously cheap cost of Thai labour and the free-trade agreement with Australia should mean lower prices in the showrooms when the Thai-built Fiestas arrive here early in 2009. |
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Touch-free texting |
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 It'll soon be possible to send text messages while driving, without breaking the law by taking a hand off the steering wheel.
Microsoft is working on hi-tech kit that will be able to translate spoken words into SMS and send texts while you're on the move. Created in collaboration with voice recognition expert Nuance, the new system is an upgrade to COMAND APS, which is already installed in the latest Mercedes C-Class. The new version should be released early next year and will be able to read out incoming texts as well as recognise spoken outgoing messages and turn them into SMS. An email version is expected to follow soon after.
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