Car Reviews &#038; Features

LAUNCHED: Porsche 911 GT3

Bigger engine, even more brilliance.

July 15, 2009

LAUNCHED: BMW Z4

Roof now hard, but character is softer.

July 13, 2009

Hybrid wars

Toyota has hit back on home soil with its new Prius as the gloss comes off Honda’s Insight.

July 8, 2009

Centre punch

Mazda 3’s chief designer explains to John Carey why the essence of the new car, both inside and out, is firmly focused dead centre.

July 8, 2009

Five star Zonda R

Five lucky squillionaires will get the chance to own the ultimate Pagani: the Zonda Cinque.

July 6, 2009

Broken dreams

Part junkyard, part art gallery, part homage to Aussie ingenuity, Flynn’s wreckers in Cooma, NSW, is a place where classic metal now rusts in peace.

July 2, 2009

Rear wheel Lambo is Balboni special

LEAKED! Pictures of a Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 have made their way onto the ‘net, and it turns out to be a tribute edition to Lambo’s long time test driver.

July 1, 2009

Cruze control

The small-car segment is now Australia’s largest, and Mazda and Toyota are hogging the sales fast lane. Can Holden’s new globally developed Cruze redirect the traffic flow?

June 29, 2009

LAUNCHED: Skoda Superb

Despite the self-indulgent name, Skoda’s new luxo limo flagship has finally arrived offering a tonne of metal of the money.

June 26, 2009

Strip show – 370Z v HSV R8

Game Zed brings V6 knife to heavyweight V8 gunfight.

June 26, 2009

Nissan 370Z v HSV R8, Evo X, Cayman S

Not content to have stung Porsche with its upstart GT-R, Nissan widens the front with a Zed-led assault.

June 26, 2009

LAUNCHED: Honda Odyssey

Almost-sexy seven-seater with substance.

Porsche’s provocative Panamera

Ed Ged Bulmer travels to Bimmer country for the launch of the four-seat technical wunderkind.

When Hitler ran the Silver Arrows

Adolf didn’t know much about understeer and oversteer but he knew how success by German companies in motor sport could be used to promote the idea of Nazi superiority.

The Ultimate Motorsport Coffee Table Book

Awesome quality is a claim that’s easy to justify.

BOOK REVIEW: In Control by Bob Watson

Wato has done it all. Now he’s writing about it.

Speedway’s deadly decade

Speedway racing in Australia exacted a tragic toll on drivers and riders in the 1960s. A just-launched book captures some of the high-flying drama.

Slide tracked – 370Z v Evo X

Zed plays the power card against Evo’s traction.

June 24, 2009

LAUNCHED: Nissan Maxima

New model worthy of more than just a blip on buyers’ radar.

June 23, 2009

Lexus banks on hybrids

Japanese premium car maker says to forget diesels and biofuels; the longer term future is hybrid technology.

June 19, 2009

Prius vs Insight (again)

Maybe it’s not quite the automotive equivalent of Ali vs Frazier, but the showdown between the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight hybrids nevertheless is the talk of Japan right now.

June 18, 2009

Tiers of joy – Mazda 3 SP25 v Golf 118TSI

Moving down one level from GTI and MPS still brings miles of driving smiles.

June 18, 2009

The joy of VI – Golf GTI

More mid-range punch, better fuel economy, trick diff and impeccable DNA all cement the sixth-gen GTI’s status as the complete hot hatch.

June 18, 2009