Car Reviews

2013 Hyundai i30 SR Review

In Hyundai-speak, it’s the “Local Model Expansion Strategy.” For us, the first result of a more adaptable product-development approach is the i30 SR, a warm hatch that is (for the moment) unique to Australia.

Mercedes-Benz E500 Cabriolet 2014: Review

Mercedes-Benz has no excuses for not being at the top of the four-seat convertible game. It’s been at it for more than 100 years and its 2014 E500 Cabriolet is now cleaner looking, faster, more economical and far, far safer.

Peugeot 208 GTi review

Peugeot has resurrected GTi badge and has created a cracking compact hot hatch worthy of wearing it.

Audi SQ5 review

Audi SQ5. Finally, a mid-size SUV with balls.

First drive: Porsche 911 Turbo S

An outward display of raw fear is not an attractive quality in a man, so it’s a good thing I wear a strong poker-face.

First drive: Jaguar XFR-S

It seems like just yesterday, because it was, that we were telling you about how strange it was of Jaguar to put its savagely tuned 5.0-litre V8 in its XJ limo to create the XJR.

First drive: Jaguar XJR

Making a super sporty version of a luxury limousine may make as much sense as putting wheels on a king size bed, but that doesn't stop car companies from doing it.

Range Rover Sport review

Touted as “the fastest, most agile and responsive Land Rover ever”, the all-new Range Rover Sport incorporates a lot of the engineering developments featured in the latest-model Range Rover.

Quick spin: Fiat Punto Pop

It’s cheap, it’s small and it’s Italian – everyone meet the ‘new’ Fiat Punto.

First drive: Australia's most powerful car

Say hello to the most powerful production car ever built in Australia.

First Aussie drive: Jaguar F-Type

Associate editor Westerman’s worried. He’s driven Jaguar’s F-Type through Spain’s mountainous north, and in the July 2103 issue, given it bigger raps than Jay-Z and Tupac. But has he got it right? Does European brilliance translate to Aussie awesomeness?

Review: Fiat 500 1.2 Pop

“It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!” singer/songwriter Dolly Parton once remarked. And then there’s this – Fiat’s ‘repositioned’ but otherwise unchanged 500. Now from $14,000 driveaway, it’s the least expensive way to look classy on four wheels.

Review: Nissan Pulsar SSS

Car companies love tapping into nostalgia. Invoking memories of a bygone hero is a shortcut to consumers’ wallets that potentially saves millions in advertising.

Review: Kia Rondo

The Australian male is world-renowned for his stoicism. He goes over the trenches for his mates. He tells fibs to the same mate’s wife because a beer commercial told him to. That mate repays the favour by saving the first mate from a shark attack by punching the bastard thing in the nose.

First drive: Range Rover Sport

Forget hyperbole. The temptation after just driving the flagship supercharged petrol V8 version of Land Rover’s new Range Rover Sport is to switch straight to hyper-hyperbole. It’s that good.

Review: Mercedes-Benz E63 S AMG

Walking around the one and only Mercedes-Benz E63 S AMG in the country is something like the calm before the storm. But not just any storm, more a category five hurricane on wheels.

Review: Renault Captur

Last year was all about zombies, but that’s all undead now. This year’s all about the … um, sub-compact SUV? Baby crossovers? Light-car cross-dressers? Whatever.

Review: BMW M6 Gran Coupe

Brings the speed, but not the pharmacology

Review: Maserati Quattroporte S

Lift the bonnet of the new Quattroporte S for a glimpse of Maserati’s future.

Review: Audi SQ5

Be warned, we are on a slippery slope of sound manipulation.

Audi's mini limo

Wheels went to the international launch of Audi’s A3 Sedan in Hungary this week and met the first entrant of what is in many ways is a new type of segment – the luxury compact sedan.

Review: Holden Malibu

Holden keeps its foot firmly on the gas with the launch of its all-new Malibu mid-size sedan, which arrives hard on the heels of the VF Commodore.

Review: Mercedes-Benz E400

Will anyone lament the loss of the V8 from the engine menu in Mercedes-Benz’s standard E-Class line-up for Australia when a tasty V6 has been added? Probably not.

2013 HSV Gen-F range review

HSV Gen-F / Holden Special Vehicles - We road and track test the 2013 F-Gen HSV, the best high-performance rear-drive V8 Australia has ever built.