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2018 Mazda CX-8 announced as six-seat luxury SUV for Japan
Mazda aims upmarket with a new large SUV with a rare-for-the-segment six seat configuration – but is it for Australia too?
2017 Skoda Kodiaq price and features announced
Skoda Australia will grow its SUV line-up with the seven-seat Kodiaq due to arrive in late May, priced from $42,990
2017 Trans Am Super Duty released
Orders for the new 7.4-litre 745kW Super Duty open on May 1
Holden starts job hunt for top secret proving ground expansion
Know how to make a Cadillac purr? A Buick bark? General Motors’ Lang Lang proving ground has a need for you
2017 BMW 4 Series Australian pricing revealed
The BMW 4 Series range price will remain mostly unchanged, despite a minor facelift and technical upgrade.
BMW M550d gets quad-turbo engine
Four turbos for BMW six-pot diesel blows M550d to beefy 760Nm and 100km/h in 4.4 seconds
2018 BMW M550d xDrive revealed
New M-pack diesel to get four turbos and 294kW/760Nm. And a wagon.
UK car manufacturing strengthens as Oz industry winds back.
Car industries can be successful. Just ask the Germans, Japanese, Americans, South Koreans and, more recently, the British.
Google self-driving cars get passengers
A decade after beginning its autonomous vehicle project, Google is finally enlisting passengers to be part of its self-driving research.
Ex-Highway Patrol FPV GT R-Spec up for auction
A former NSW police show car is hitting the ex-government fleet auctions soon
US state to increase speed limits on 2400km of roads
Welcome to Michigan, where the state government is about to let its residents drive a little bit faster
2018 Aston Martin Vantage – or Vanquish – teased in gratuitously drifty promo video
Aston drivers toast tyres in hangar housewarming hootenanny – and give a sneak peek at what’s around the corner
2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake wagon teased, Oz debut in late 2017
Jaguar has started trickling out imagery of its tantalisingly sleek mid-sized XF wagon, as the British carmaker’s local arm prepares for a fourth-quarter 2017 launch
BMW M Division could ditch manual and DCT
M3 manual unlikely in future, could go torque converter auto-only
Norwegian Cruise Ship features seafaring Ferrari go-karts
Floating kart track allows cruise passengers to do laps while the waves lap
Three Bathurst legends to cross the auction block
Pristine XW GT-HO Phase II, HK GTS 327, and VH Charger R/T to go for big bucks at Shannons auction
Nismo announces dedicated road car division, more models on the way
Nissan’s high-performance arm Nismo is set to expand its road car stable even further. Is a Nismo Navara in the future?
Hold your horses: Great Wall Steed hits two-star crash test wall
Great Wall’s “all-new” dual-cab trade ute is just the old one with a new name, crash test watchdog claims
2018 Honda Civic Type R claims title of fastest FWD around the ‘Ring: video
Honda’s hardcore hatch, the Civic Type R, has blitzed its way around the Nurburging Nordschliefe in just 7:43.80 – putting it at the top of the heap in the world of front-drive performance hatchbacks
2017 Honda Civic Type R smashes Nurburgring lap record
The world’s fastest front-driver is once again a Honda
All-new 2017 Suzuki Swift to go on sale in June
A ground-up redesign for Suzuki’s perky Swift light hatchback will also bring a pair of new downsized powertrains… turbos included!
2017 Volkswagen Golf R cracks 100km/h in 4.8 seconds
Mid-life update brings more grunt to Volkswagen Golf GTI and R
Continental wins 2017 MOTOR Tyre Test
The annual MOTOR tyre test has been run and won, with the Continental ContiSportContact 5P winning in 2017 ahead of Michelin and Pirelli
Dodge Demon to Get Truly Devilish 1119kW output courtesy of Hennessey
Hennessey says it’ll crank up the kilowatts on Dodge’s already ballistic Challenger SRT Demon – while also making it safer.
