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Hyundai Kona: Small SUV with big aspirations gets set for late 2017 launch
2WD and 4WD and the potential for a 150kW turbocharged engine will catapult Hyundai’s new small SUV into the big league.
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
