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Volkswagen-Golf Mk7 GT1 40 years
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Volkswagen Golf Mk7 GTI 40 Years: 7 things you didn’t know

Think you’re above par on your Golf GTI trivia? James Whitbourn finds 7 things about the Golf GTI 40 Years limited edition hot hatch you may not know

Tokyo Metropolis
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Australian leads Honda’s outside the box car design

James Deane heads Honda’s Counter Design Team, the guys who say ‘but what if we did it this way?’

Suzuki Baleno
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2016 Suzuki Baleno review

After a period of absence, Suzuki says it is back in the small-car game with the Baleno, a curiously compact hatch that actually straddles the B-segment supermini class as well.

Man tows goats in a Lamborghini Murcielago
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Man tows goats in a Lamborghini Murcielago

People tow goats all the time, but when someone does it in a Lamborghini raging bull, we sit up and take notice

2016 Volkswagen Golf GTI 40 Years
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2016 Volkswagen Golf GTI 40 Years Quick Review

Volkswagen has deployed almost every high-performance-tuning weapon in its Golf arsenal to create a fitting GTI flagship in celebration of 40 years of the hot hatchback. In this more purposeful-looking 500-only special, the GTI’s all-rounder qualities co-exist with some new driver – and track – focussed features

Honda S2000 Nurburgring
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Honda S2000 prototype at the Nurburgring

Sadly missed Roadster screams around the ‘Ring

2016 Volkswagen Golf GTI 40 Years review
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2016 Volkswagen Golf GTI 40 Years review

The Volkswagen Golf GTI 40 Years is a limited edition version of the Golf GTI celebrating 40 years since the arrival of the genre-defining 1976 Golf GTI.

Volkswagen Golf GTI 40 Years review
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2016 Volkswagen Golf GTI 40 Years review

German hot hatch blows out birthday candles, gets powerful present

Opinion: Why you should crash your car
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Opinion: Why you should crash your car

It’s a legal minefield for car companies to program their cars to kill other people

2015 Honda Civic VTi-L Hatch
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2012-2016 Honda Civic Review

The 2012-2016 Honda Civic is a well-built small car with an appealing engine, from a Japanese brand with a superb reliability record. It was superseded in June 2016.

Peugeot's decade of madness
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Peugeot’s decade of madness

Crazy concepts, iconic hatches and wild race cars

Holden SS-V Redline vs Ford Falcon Sprints vs Ford Mustang GT
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Holden SS-V Redline vs Ford Falcon Sprints vs Ford Mustang GT

Ford’s fittest take on Holden’s stonking 304kW SS-V Redline

Gosford Classic Car Museum: 8 of the best
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Gosford Classic Car Museum: 8 of the best

Take one Bunnings Warehouse, remove all horticulture and fill with 400 exotic cars

Porsche Cayman 718
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Porsche 718 Cayman: 7 Things you didn’t know

Porsche is tagging its 718 Cayman as the brand’s new entry-level sports car. If the words Porsche and entry-level strung together gets your spidey senses tingling, Nathan Ponchard details 7 things about this latest Porsche that you’ll want to know

Neville Crichton
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Neville Crichton interview

If Neville Crichton’s life was a movie, critics would slate it as overblown, absurd, unrealistic and a load of bollocks.

Lamborghini Huracan LP580-2 review
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2016 Lamborghini Huracan LP580 2 review

Rear-drive, finger-biting Lambo flat out at Phillip Island

Aston Martin DB11 prototype review
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Aston Martin DB11 prototype review

Aston Martin’s long-awaited DB9 replacement, the twin-turbo DB11, has been worth the wait

Holden Spark
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Holden Spark Review Video

The Spark, previously known as the Barina Spark, is Holden’s entrant to the micro-car class. Unlike its predecessor, the newest sub-Barina includes more tech and better engineering. It is one of the more expensive options in its class.

Ute filling up at petrol station
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Australia is falling behind the world, lacking the leadership to stop

Stephen Corby laments the lack of political leadership and investment in infrastructure that’s seeing Australia fall behind the rest of the world in the number of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on our roads

BMW M3 Competition
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BMW M3 Competition Pack Quick Review

The current BMW M3 has been on sale since 2014 and this is the first major change to it. The new M3 Competition Pack brings more power and slightly firmer suspension designed to improve its pace and performance, particularly on a race track.

2017 Porsche 718 Boxster review
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2017 Porsche 718 Boxster review

What does the latest Porsche 718 Boxster have in common with Justin Bieber? Stephen Corby finds out

BMW M3
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BMW M3/M4 Competition pack: 12 things you didn’t know

Eager to capitalise on our hunger for all things M series, BMW unveils its M2 and M3 competition-spec variants. Toby Hagon explains what sets the Competition series apart from others in the M range.

Porsche Vision GT 918 Concept
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Porsche 918 LMP1 concept is jaw-dropping

A team of designers has put together a dream Porsche concept

BMW M3 and M4
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2016 BMW M3/M4 Competition pack review

MORE power and sharper dynamics make for a worthwhile addition to the M3 and M4 family