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2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 N

The first EV that you’d take for a drive just for the fun of it? That’s what the IONIQ 5 N could well be.

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2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: KIA EV5 EARTH AWD

With the range starting at $56,770 drive-away for the base front-drive Air Standard Range, we chose the mid-spec $68,990 drive-away Earth with its larger 88.1kWh battery, 500km of claimed WLTP range, all-wheel drive and various other extra equipment.

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2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: FORD MUSTANG DARK HORSE

The new S650 Dark Horse aims to show that the Mustang’s old days of the slightly unresolved and unsophisticated muscle car are behind it.

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2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: MAZDA CX-90 D50E GT

There once was a time when Mazda could do virtually no wrong at Wheels Car of the Year.

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2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: MG CYBERSTER

The MG Cyberster represents a flurry of firsts – an all-electric roadster unlike anything we’ve yet seen from anyone; a super-expensive sports car from MG; and arguably the first genuinely desirable-looking car to arrive here from China.

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2024-25 Wheels Car of the Year Contender: MERCEDES-BENZ CLE200

COTY 2024 DELIVERED us some very good looking cars. But, for this judge at least, there was only one truly beautiful shape and it belonged to the Mercedes-Benz CLE200.

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Wheels Car of the Year is back!

It’s almost time to name the winner of the world’s longest-running car honour, the Wheels Car of the Year

Features

Driven to extinction: Jaguar XE

Jaguar waves goodbye to “lower-end products”

Reviews

New MG ZS HYBRID+: Economical, powerful, compelling

MG’s introduced two new variants of its popular compact SUV model ZS – the ZS HYBRID+ Excite and the ZS HYBRID+ Essence – with attractive pricing and a fuel-efficient new hybrid powertrain.

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2025 Toyota LandCruiser Prado review

We take Toyota’s premier off-roader on and off the trail.

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2024 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Exceed Tourer long term review

Our resident photographer gives Mitsubishi’s hybrid SUV an extended trial

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2025 Mazda CX-80 review

Mazda’s betting the house on the seven-seat CX-80. Does it shape up in a super-competitive market sector? We find out

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2025 MG HS review: Full range detailed

There’s no Most Improved Award in the automotive industry, but if there was the new MG HS would certainly be in with a shout of needing to write an acceptance speech.

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2024 MG4 review: Full range detailed

The MG4 is a budget-friendly small electric hatchback in Australia. Learn about the MG4 range including price, interior, boot space, safety assists and performance

Comparisons

2024 MG3 vs 2024 Suzuki Swift Hybrid: SPEC BATTLE!

Two models with very important offerings, providing the latest safety and technology at a price that’s potentially in reach of first-car buyers. But which is best?

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Living with the new Mazda CX-90: Long-term review

It’s the biggest and most expensive Mazda ever but is the CX-90 a worthy luxury flagship?

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2024 Genesis GV80 long-term review

Despite having been on sale here in Australia since 2020, it’s fair to say that the Genesis GV80 still has the capacity to befuddle a good proportion of onlookers.

Features

Modern Classic: Ford Laser TX-3 4WD Turbo

The forgotten blue-oval performance hero.

Suzuki Ignis: Driven to extinction
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Driven to extinction: Suzuki Ignis

The not-so-bad MF-generation departs the Aussie market.

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2025 Mazda CX-80 review: First international drive

Premium, practical and punchy but is it too much, too late?

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2025 Toyota Camry Hybrid Review: First Australian drive

Toyota’s new hybrid Camry finds itself no longer a fixture at the festival of the unexceptional.

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2024 Chery Omoda E5 review: First Australian review

Chinese car maker adds its first electric vehicle to Australia. Is it worth the wait?

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Living with the MG4 Excite 64: Long-term review

MG’s new electric hatchback has been judged our 2024 Wheels Best Electric Car Under $80K. Now we’re finding out what it’s like to actually own one for a few months…

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Living with the Ford Mustang Mach-E: Long-term review

A Mexican-built electric Mustang? We’ll have one to go. Hold the jalapenos