Overdrive

Overdrive

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Overdrive episodes

  • Overdrive: News; Cyclist identification; Subaru Forester and the devil in potholes
    Overdrive: News including: Apple CarPlay; Autonomous cars and insurances and taxes; Ford's new headlights; A Citroen in all but name; the dangers of windscreen washing at traffic lights.
    We discuss cyclists having to carry identification.
    We road test the Subaru Forester Diesel CVT
    and in quirky news we talk about potholes and Il Chapo's form of transport to freedom.
    Originally aired 1 October 2015. For past programs and individual segments visit drivenmedia.com.au
    31 min
  • Overdrive - Road User charges, hacking cars and Exhuming Fangio
    Overdrive Program. News including: Road Deaths in Australia; Road user charges; Kia Carnival aims for five stars.
    We discuss hacking cars and we get a reveal of the Toyota Fortuner.
    Plus quirky news including: Juan Manuel Fangio’s body to be exhumed and tyres as rolling billboards.
    "Originally aired 25 July 2015. For past programs and individual segments visit drivenmedia.com.au"
    31 min
  • Overdrive: Driver fatigue, Jaguar F-Type, Ford Territory and Quirky news
    Overdrive: News including: Measuring driver fatigue, science behind the return trip, telematics measures drier risk, Remote control Range Rover, Jet engines in plug-in hybrids.
    Road test of Jaguar F-type and Ford Territory
    Plus quirky news including: Pimped up executive vehicles, using dummies in transit lanes, a robot drives a car, silly transport systems
    "Originally aired 27th June 2015. For past programs and individual segments visit drivenmedia.com.au"
    31 min
  • Overdrive: News; Le Mans; Kia Carnival and Quirky stories
    Overdrive - News, Road test and humour. Federal Govt in Australia may fund public transport; Google to help cities via Sidewalk Labs; Road rage; educating parents to teach their children to drive.
    A first hand view of Le Mans. Road test of Kia Carnival. Quirky News - Manspreading. 20 June 201
    31 min
  • Overdrive - 6 June 2015 - News, reviews and opinions
    Overdrive Program - 6 June 2015; News including: Ban Ki-moon calls for transport ministers to act on climate change; road deaths continues to fall; lower speed means less casualties; Ford makes electric car tech available; Warning for trains on bridge. Road test of Audi Q7 and Nissan Navara and Quirky news.
    31 min
  • Overdrive - 30 May 2015 - News, Road tests and humour
    Overdrive 30 May 2015. News including: Do the benefits of stop-start technology outweigh the irritations? Prius batteries becoming popular target for thieves; Ford goes backwards with 2016 F-150 tech (in a good way); Jules Bianchi: French driver's situation 'stagnant', says family; Amsterdam’s buses to be electric within 10 years; First electric car ferry goes into operation in Norway.
    We Road test the Citroen Picasso and the Suzuki Celerio.
    Plus quirky news including: Car bibs: the lonely sorrow of eating in a car; Man gives away step-daughter's filthy car as a prize.
    31 min
  • Overdrive - Road deaths; Truck drag; Mobility scooters
    Overdrive 23 May 2015.
    News including: Road Deaths in Australia; Reducing wind resistance on trucks with motor racing technology; Toyota Recall; Government axes bus seatbelt scheme; Mobility scooter training & UK number plate sells for record £233k.
    We road test the Toyota Hilux & the Peugeot 308 & 308 GT.
    Plus quirky news including: Burnout mode banned from the new Ford Mustang down under, Toyota Hilux "Bugger" number plate on sale, a snake hungry for car parts & what is "Quaxing"?
    30 min

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