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Ford Mustang gets ready for the Big Five-Oh!

Ford is preparing to celebrate 50 years continuous production of one its most legendary models, with the Mustang’s big five-oh in 2014.

World’s wildest golf kart costs 83K!

GERMAN high-performance tuning specialist Mansory has collaborated with luxury golf kart maker Garia to create one of the world’s most exotic golf machines.

Usher builds his Merc superstar supercar

Grammy award winning pop superstar Usher, has dropped into Mercedces-Benz AMG’s Affalterbach factory to get on the tools and help build the engine set to slot into his new Gullwing SLS supercar.

Top Ten Ugly Cars – Jeep’s bold bid for number one

Jeep has unveiled the latest version of its Cherokee SUV, and while Chrysler design chief, Ralph Gilles has defended it as strong and contemporary, others aren’t so sure.

Review: Mercedes A250

It’s not like Mercedes-Benz to get left behind, but there’s no denying the Aussie branch of the world’s oldest car maker has stood idly while BMW and Audi raked in the cash, and the entry-level buyers, with their 1 Series and A1 respectively.

February 28, 2013

Review: Mitsubishi Mirage

Since the closure of the Tonsley Park assembly plant in 2008, Mitsubishi Motors Australia has struggled to come to terms with both its past and future. Staff have come and gone, managing directors have been rotated like Aussie fast bowlers, and the GFC strangled the vital supply of new product from Japan.

February 24, 2013

Review: BMW X1

WITH Audi’s Q3 premium compact and smart, affordable crossover alternatives such as Kia’s Sportage, Mitsubishi’s Outlander and Subaru’s XV stealing customers, BMW is fighting back with a wide-ranging mid-life upgrade of its X1.

February 22, 2013

Review: Honda CRV

The new, Thai-built fourth-generation is easily the best CR-V in the model’s 17-year history.

February 20, 2013

Review: Porsche Cayman

Poor man’s 911? Don’t believe it. In fact, until the 991 911 range is filled out with the superstar Turbo and GT models, the second-generation Cayman S is the most focused and fun car Porsche currently makes.

February 18, 2013

Review: Audi RS4 Avant

Who says the fast life has to stop when you start a family?

February 15, 2013

Review: Opel OPC range

The odd thing about pushing this car really hard is that you know exactly when you think the car will start understeering, and steering-wheel tugging, but it just doesn’t.

February 14, 2013

Faster than a speeding KIA…

Known as ‘The man of Steel’, Superman has been transformed into ‘Wheels of Steel” thanks to KIA’s tribute version of its Optima Hybrid unveiled at this week’s Chicago Auto Show.

February 11, 2013

Review: Mazda 6

If the new Mazda 6 was just 50 cents longer, it would be as big as a Commodore.

February 11, 2013

Dwarf cars are documentary stars!

Ernie Adams, 72, lives in Maricopa, in the heart of desert country, just south of Phoenix, Arizona, and builds incredibly detailed, road-legal, roughly half-scale replica cars, by hand, from scratch, in his workshop shed.

February 6, 2013

Review: McLaren MP4-12C Spider

TALK about a car of the moment. Right now, the 12C Spider is crucial to the evolution of McLaren Automotive, the brand. No one has ever been in any doubt that the 12C can deliver the goods dynamically, where it counts.

February 4, 2013

McLaren’s 50-year film trilogy

A 26-year-old Bruce McLaren founded his new company, Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd, in a small south London lock-up on September 2, 1963, and tragically, only seven years later, the Kiwi racing ace was killed testing one of his M8D Can-Am sportscars at the Goodwood circuit, in the south of England.

February 4, 2013

Review: Lexus LS600h F Sport

The big Lexus slipped into EV mode and rolled silently to a halt behind a black HSV GTS. As I waited for the lights to change, the 325 badge on the rump of the GTS caught my eye.

January 30, 2013

MOTOR’S world without wheels

Paris based photographic artist Renaud Marion has created a series of computer render images, that literally pull the wheels out from under the motor car.

January 30, 2013

Review: Porsche Cayenne S Diesel

THE BOXSTER is extolled and the 911 drowns in a sea of purple prose, but it’s the Cayenne SUV that keeps Porsche viable, by accounting for 50 percent of all sales globally.

January 22, 2013

Review: Jaguar XJ V6

Starting now, Jaguar intends to broaden the choice with an all-new supercharged V6 that’s so good it replaces the previous normally aspirated V8.

January 21, 2013

Wheels Review: BMW Active Hybrid 7

Is the $222,000 BMW Active Hybrid 7 more about polishing owners’ neighbourhood environmental credentials or BMW’s?

January 18, 2013

Now the wealthy can play the enviro card

Is the $222,000 BMW Active Hybrid 7 more about polishing owners’ neighbourhood environmental credentials or BMW’s?

January 18, 2013

Wheels Review: Porsche 911 Carrera 4S

I’ve just had an hour I’ll never forget, on a road I just can’t believe in a car that I’ve just fallen madly, hopelessly in love with.

January 12, 2013

Wheels Review: Mini Paceman

MINI has a problem. It’s a problem Porsche faced and overcame, and now Mini is beginning to do the same.

January 10, 2013