Car Reviews

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.

Review: HSV Range

The company that claims to make Holden vehicles special has lived up to its promise with the introduction of its latest Gen-F line-up.

Review: Audi S8

The people have spoken. Audi Australia has bowed to demand and given the S8 a ticket to Australia in the first quarter of 2014.

Driven! Holden's new VF Commodore

Does it matter how good the new VF Commodore is to drive?

Review: Holden Cruze

Difficult though it might be to believe, 2013 is not just about the VF Commodore for Holden.

Review: Kia Cerato

Kia’s naked ambition is there for the world – including Australia – to see.

Review: Ford EcoSport

I’m trying to remember the last time I was less surprised by a photo than this one of a Ford EcoSport on its roof.

Review: Volkswagen Golf 90TSI

Base model calls “fore!” as the opposition ducks for cover

Review: Audi S3

Rapid, responsive, rorty. But where’s the passion?

Customised Nissan Patrol GU

BJ Elliott’s introduction to four-wheel driving was in 2005 when a friend offered to take him and his partner Laura for a drive off-road.

Review: Mercedes-Benz GL350

What’s a nice drivetrain like you doing in a place like this?