http://www.transeum.com Transeum - the blog about Planes, Trains and Automobiles Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:01:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Dawoo Cielo takes our number 5 spot of Australias worst cars. Also known as the 1.5i between 1994 and 1995 the Cielo was Daewoo’s first entry into the Australian Market. Daewoo had a long association with GM long before it became part of GM in 2002 and the Cielo ... http://www.transeum.com/worlds-worst-cars/dawoo-cielo.html Number 6 in our list of Australia's worst cars goes to the Datsun 120y. Based on the chassis of the Datsun 1200 that was produced from 1970 to 1974 when the 120y was launched on the Australian market as its replacement. Both cars were known as the Sunny in Japan, ... http://www.transeum.com/worlds-worst-cars/datsun-120y-why-why.html Hitting our number 7 spot for Australia’s worst cars is the Holden Piazza. Launched in Australia in 1986 at just under $35,000 the Piazza hardly took sports car market by storm probably because of its huge price tag at the time and the fact that motoring journalists at the time ... http://www.transeum.com/worlds-worst-cars/holden-piazza-the-italian-gemini.html Billed as "the supercar" by Holden Marketing the Camira was Holden's first attempt at a front wheel drive car. Derived from GM's J car program. This was the first time that GM would use the same basic design for a car around the world, although they did feature different grills ... http://www.transeum.com/worlds-worst-cars/holden-camira-anything-but-super.html Coming in at no 9 of Austrlia's worst cars is the FSM Niki 650. based on the Fiat 126 the Niki was built under licence by Fabryka Samochodów Malolitrazowych (FSM) in Poland from 1973 to 2000 and exported to Australia between 1989 and 1992. Fitted with a 2 cyl 650 ... http://www.transeum.com/worlds-worst-cars/fsm-niki-650-too-little-too-late.html [youtube wZ4NRbJQz3o] This week we are starting a top ten series of the worst cars ever sold in a particular market, and this weeks turn is Australia. Coming in at number 10 is the Lada Samara, the Samara was a Russian built car that was imported into Australia from 1988 to ... http://www.transeum.com/worlds-worst-cars/the-lada-samara-a-commie-catoastrophy.html [youtube bztCah9wxS8] The Chevrolet Volt is GM's much anticipated electric car that is not too far away from hitting the showrooms. GM is pinning its hopes on this car turning the fortunes of the company around, so they are going all out to talk up the car before release. One new ... http://www.transeum.com/electric-car/the-volt-enters-pre-production.html [youtube 5EODSVw4Wg0] We love all sorts of vechiles shaped into odd things and the video of this odd motorbike above is well worth a watch. The cigarette motorbike was made by a guy in India who hates smoking that much he decided to build a large cigarette shaped motorbike. We recon ... http://www.transeum.com/weird-car/the-cigarette-motorbike.html [youtube yL9YuEjjrs8] At transeum we love small cars and a bit of backyard mechanics, the guy in the video above has managed to produce a tiny car our of a Postman Pat kiddy ride and a quad bike. A UK man known as Perry Watkins produced this fun car out of ... http://www.transeum.com/weird-car/the-worlds-smallest-car.html [youtube lZvN2czT-qw] The video above is of one of the first drives of the Chevy Volt's running gear set up in a test car based on another Chevrolet model. GM are really pushing the Volt hard to journalists as GM is pinning its hopes on the Volt turning around the companies ... http://www.transeum.com/electric-car/first-drive-of-chevy-volt.html