Hello and welcome to the April 2005 edition of the MotorMouth newsletter.

With petrol prices remaining at record highs throughout Australia, this has been an exceptionally busy month for MotorMouth. In April over 900 new members joined MotorMouth and approximately 50,000 individual price searches were completed on the MotorMouth website. In addition to this, media groups from around the country have contacted us to provide fuel-pricing information for their television, radio and newspaper stories. Clearly the word is spreading that MotorMouth’s services are helping Australian motorists save money on their fuel bill!

Remember, if you would like to introduce a friend or family member to MotorMouth, go to http://motormouth.com.au/tellyourfriends.aspx. Also, if you are not already receiving your free personalised daily fuel price Email Elerts, and you would like to, simply login to MotorMouth and click on CREATE EMAIL. We receive a great deal of positive feedback regarding our Email Elerts as users find them very helpful to keep track of fuel prices in their street, postcode, suburb or city.

Given the current price of petrol, we have decided to focus this month’s editorial on the newest fuel saving scheme rolling out throughout the county. The scheme is called Servo Savers and it can offer some real relief to the hip pocket from soaring fuel prices.

What is Servo Savers?
The Servo Savers initiative has been designed to reward consumers who shop with participating locally owned small to medium sized businesses with discounts of 5 cents to 15 cents per litre on their fuel purchases. According to Servo Savers they are “passionately driven to protect the ongoing viability of small and medium sized businesses, including independent fuel operators, who have played a very important role in building our nation. Our commitment to assist in guaranteeing their future is second to none."

So what makes Servo Savers different from the other fuel offers?
As we all know there are lots of fuel saving offers currently running throughout Australia. Some of them are nationwide and some are specific to local areas. Customers who shop at Servo Savers aligned businesses are offered 5 cents per litre off their fuel purchase (for up to 30 litre of fuel). This 5 cent per litre discount is similar to other fuel offers in the market, however, Servo Savers also allows consumers to accumulate up to 3 of these rewards to increase their savings to 15c per litre.

The purchases must be made at three different participating businesses and redeemed at a participating Servo Savers petrol station. Currently, some Servo Savers outlets are offering Double Reward points, so it’s possible to get 30 cents per litre off the price of fuel! To read the Servo Savers Terms and Conditions, go to: http://www.servosavers.com.au/Terms_Cond.html.

Where are Servo Savers petrol stations or businesses?
Servo Savers is now operating in selected regions in NSW, QLD, SA and TAS. To find out if your area is covered or to locate a participating service station, go to: http://www.servosavers.com.au/index.html.

The brochure containing a list of participating local businesses can be collected from your local service station. Servo Savers is gradually rolling out throughout the country, so to see when Servo Savers is coming to your area, click here.

In other MotorMouth news, I would like to congratulate monthly MotorMouth Newsletter guest editor, Damien Reid, who has been appointed the Group Motoring Editor for The Media Factory in Dubai. The Media Factory publishes titles in the Middle East and Damien’s responsibilities will include being editor for Auto Car and F1 Racing magazines, as well introducing other titles to the Middle East. Fortunately for MotorMouth, Damien has agreed to continue with his monthly contributions to the MotorMouth Newsletter. Head to the What's News? section of the newsletter to check out Damien’s articles this month.

Until next month, happy savings!

Bernadette Murray
Marketing Manager - MotorMouth
bmurraymotormouth.com.au 

This month's winner is Graeme from Runcorn in QLD Graeme's entry - Reversing "I am sure that most can relate to times when we have sat frustrated watching a driver at the boat ramp or the rubbish tip attempting to reverse their trailer... only to see them end up in knots! Something my father taught me some years ago (more than I'd like to count) was to hold the steering wheel with one hand at the bottom. Simply move your bottom hand in the direction you want the trailer to go." Congratulations Graeme! Your prize will be sent out to you shortly.

EMAIL IN AND WIN!

Do you have an opinion or comment about a motoring or fuel related issue or story you’d like to share with your MotorMouth users from around the country? If so, send through your contribution in 200 words or less and you could win a prize! Your entry can be positive or negative (but of course not rude). The person whose comment is deemed most interesting each month will be awarded a book (or series of books) to the value of $50 from QBD The Bookshop.

All valid entries will be posted on the Past Entries section of the website so everyone can see what’s on the minds of Australian motorists. So what are you waiting for? Send through your contribution. Remember to add your name, address and phone number to your entry so we can notify you if you are chosen as our winner and send you your prize. Please note, only users who are signed up to receive the MotorMouth Newsletter can win the competition.

Damien Reid, our guest editor, with more fascinating news on the Fuel and Auto front.
Mercedes Fuel Cell Gets Closer to Market
The next generation of experimental, zero emission fuel cell vehicle has arrived with DaimlerChrysler showing off its new Mercedes-Benz B-Class compact at the recent Geneva Motor Show.
[Read more]

Turning Turbo Performance In To Great Economy
You want a challenge? Here's a challenge. The brief is to take three people including yourself over 1000 kilometres in a luxury station wagon, fill it to the roof with clothes, presents, boxes, furnishings and food to last a week and with prices hovering around $1.10 per litre, see if you can do it on less than $100
[Read more]

New Car Reviews proudly supplied by News Limited.
Alloytec Adventra still off the pace
HISTORY might have been different if Holden had ticked all the boxes on its first Australian all-wheel-drive program. It got out first with the Adventra, and followed up with the Crewman Cross8. But the price was too high, supply was tight, the cars only came with V8 engines and the package didn't deliver on all the promises.
[Read more]

Quick squiz: BMW 525i
At $89,000 is provides entree to a larger vehicle than the evergreen 3 Series and one that is more in keeping with the size Aussies have come to expect from a family sedan – the well heeled ones anyway.
[Read more]

The average, lowest and the highest Unleaded prices for last month in each city were:

The price leading service stations for Unleaded in each city last month were:

Brisbane	Service Station OZ Fuel Address Deception Bay Road Suburb Deception Bay Average Price for month 93.1
Sydney	Service Station Speedway Address corner Smithfield Road and Victoria Street Suburb Smithfield Average Price for month 102.2
Melbourne	Service Station United Address Centre Road Suburb East Bentleigh Average Price for month 102.5
Adelaide	Service Station OG Speed Shop Address corner O.G. Road and Wilpena Avenue Suburb Klemzig Average Price for month 103.9
Perth	Service Station Gull Address corner Brady Street and Ocean Reef Road Suburb Wangara Average Price for month 101.9

The average, lowest and the highest Diesel prices for last month in each city were:

The price leading service stations for Deisel in each city last month were:

Brisbane	Service Station Matilda Address corner Boundary Road and Tile Street Suburb Carole Park Average Price for month 100.4
Sydney	Service Station Super Save Casula Address corner Hume Highway and Leacocks Lane Suburb Casula Average Price for month 105.7
Melbourne	Service Station Alpha Blackburn South Address corner Middleborough Road and Fulton Road Suburb Blackburn South Average Price for month 107.4
Adelaide	Service Station Southern Cross Address corner O.G. Road and Yaralin Avenue Suburb Klemzig Average Price for month 109.1
Perth	Service Station C Santoro Repairs & Maintenance Address Hammond Road Suburb Kandakot Average Price for month 108.8

MotorMouth is committed to helping Australian motorists get a better deal on fuel by providing them with free and easily accessible information on fuel prices.

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