
Wheels COTY 2024-25 Winner: HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 N
All hail the unanimous winner of Wheels Car of the Year 2024-25, the truly innovative Hyundai Ioniq 5 N – a spectacularly well-realised performance EV destined to put a smile on the face of anyone who gets in one.

2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: HONDA CR-V VTI-L
There is something resolutely old-school in a good way about the CR-V. It feels solidly engineered.

2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: MERCEDES-AMG GLC43
The most expensive contender at COTY ’24 and certainly one of the most charismatic.

2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: LEXUS LBX LUXURY
Building a beautifully appointed and convincing small car has been a surprisingly tough assignment for many premium manufacturers.

2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: BMW IX2 XDRIVE 30 M SPORT
Steadily and without huge fanfare, BMW has been establishing a reputation for EV leadership among the Euro brands.

2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 N
The first EV that you’d take for a drive just for the fun of it? That’s what the Ioniq 5 N could well be.

2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: MERCEDES-BENZ CLE200
COTY 2024 DELIVERED us some very good looking cars. But, for this judge at least, there was only one truly beautiful shape and it belonged to the Mercedes-Benz CLE200.

Driven to extinction: Jaguar XE
Jaguar waves goodbye to "lower-end products"

2025 Toyota LandCruiser Prado review
We take Toyota's premier off-roader on and off the trail.

2025 Mazda CX-80 review
Mazda's betting the house on the seven-seat CX-80. Does it shape up in a super-competitive market sector? We find out

2024 Genesis GV80 long-term review
Despite having been on sale here in Australia since 2020, it’s fair to say that the Genesis GV80 still has the capacity to befuddle a good proportion of onlookers.

Driven to extinction: Suzuki Ignis
The not-so-bad MF-generation departs the Aussie market.

2025 Toyota Camry Hybrid Review: First Australian drive
Toyota's new hybrid Camry finds itself no longer a fixture at the festival of the unexceptional.

Living with the Ford Mustang Mach-E: Long-term review
A Mexican-built electric Mustang? We'll have one to go. Hold the jalapenos

2025 MG HS 1.5T review
MG's mid-size SUV has the capacity to raise more than a few eyebrows

Driven to extinction: the V10 engine
Excuse me, but I seem to have something in my eye...

Opinion: With the Corvette there's no accounting for taste
On Corvettes, configurators and the thorny issue of aesthetic Dunning-Kruger

Modern Classic: TVR Cerbera
It’s time to down a big dose of the brave pills and dive into Blackpool’s fiercest four seater

Mini Mixed Reality: Hold Onto Your Headsets Because This Is About To Get Weird
Or how Mini brought an element of Fear and Loathing to its Cooper SE launch

Hot electric Mini Cooper JCW inbound
Can't run to an Ioniq 5 N? Could this be the next best thing

Inside Ferrari's new factory: What it will and won't be building
Ferrari calls it the “e-building” and if you thought that's because it's where it'll build its next generation of electric cars, well, you're only partially correct.

Facelifted Ferrari SF90 confirmed
Maranello's fastest and fiercest gets the Modificata treatment

2024 Hyundai Santa Fe 1.6T-GDi review
Spoiler alert: the Hyundai Santa Fe just became properly aspirational. But only if you can live with its styling

Modern classic: Porsche Boxster
The roadster that put Porsche on the road to recovery