Melbourne is used for general durability driving. It has a good road structure with a network of linking freeways. Its roads are typified as predominantly flat and wide. It has tram tracks in the centre of many inner suburban roads and its roads contain more railway crossings, round-a-bouts and speed humps than Sydney, and has easy, quick access to major 4WD areas.

Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3.8 million (2006 estimate) in the Melbourne metropolitan area. Melbourne is the southernmost city in the world with a population over one million people. Melbourne has twice shared top position in a survey by The Economist of The World's Most Livable Cities, once in 2002, and again in 2004.

Melbourne is home to Australia's three largest corporations, and the majority of companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Melbourne is also home to Australia's biggest sports events including: the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival (including the 'race that stops the nation', the Melbourne Cup), the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, the Australian Open and the AFL Grand Final. Melbourne recently hosted the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The city also hosted the first Olympic Games in the southern hemisphere in 1956.

Melbourne is the home of the Australian Car manufacturing industry and the Australian Motorsport industry. 2006 figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that since 2000 Melbourne has sustained the highest population and economic growth rate of any Australian city.

Melbourne has Australia’s largest seafreight port and is second to Sydney in terms of Airfreight.

Test-Trak has its head office in Melbourne.