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This neat suspension trick allows the Skoda Octavia RS to be a comfortable family car and surprising track weapon

The Czech wagon has a suspension system that you can really geek out on

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Wheels Car of the Year 2022: The Contenders

Who made the cut in our hunt for the best new car on sale?

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Welcome to Car of the Year 2022

COTY 2022 is here, and there’s a lot to cover – let’s get started

2022 BMW iX3 electric SUV review for Australia
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2022 BMW iX3 review: New electric SUV tested

The first of BMW’s of the new wave of EVs comes in the uncharacteristically subtle form of the popular X3 mid-size SUV

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What makes the Mazda ND MX-5’s development story special

Subtract and add lightness: how Mazda undid two generations of weight gain

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The Lamborghini Huracan Evo is more than an Audi R8 in disguise

An Audi R8 in disguise? PCOTY proves the Lamborghini Huracan Evo is so much more than that

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MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022: the track test

One of the best race tracks in the world and a field bursting with talent – game on

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Your chance to play data analyst with the MOTOR Performance Car of the Year VBOX files

For the first time in PCOTY history, we are giving you the change to play with all our performance data from Phillip Island

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MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022: the road test

With split awards for 2022, this year’s PCOTY road testing demanded some special treatment

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Video: MOTOR Performance Car of the Year 2022 winner revealed

And the winner of MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022 title is…

2022 Lexus IS 500 F Sport Performance Ultrasonic Blue Mica US-spec
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2022 Lexus IS 500 F Sport Performance review

Lexus sends off its ageing IS by crafting it into a wonderfully mechanical, well-rounded performance sedan

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PCOTY 2022: Lap times and corner speeds

We breakdown exactly where each of our 18 competitors made, and lost, time around Phillip Island raceway

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There’s more to the Porsche Taycan Turbo S than raw numbers

We dive into the electric Porsche’s mechanical gubbins to see how it makes the most of those crazy power figures

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Battler from Britain: The MG TC

Prompt post-war timing gave this English roadster a key market advantage

Features

Q&A – Marek Reichman on the design process of the Aston Martin Valhalla

Aston’s design chief talks styling evolution, Nurburgring lap times, the working relationship with Newey and Moers and whether Gandini really did design the Miura

2022 Peugeot 508 GT Fastback Plug-in Hybrid Pearl White Australia ABrook
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2022 Peugeot 508 GT Plug-in Hybrid review: First drive

Peugeot’s posh plug-in hybrid has plenty to offer – but at a price

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The data behind Performance Car of the Year 2022

The eight greatest performance cars of the last 12 months race against the stopwatch

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The data behind Sports Car of the Year 2022

We run the hard numbers to see which small player packs the biggest punch

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2023 BMW i7 review: First prototype drive

Want new-age luxury and efficiency in an old-style wrapping? Enter BMW’s all-electric i7 limo

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McLaren ownership still being fought over by Audi, BMW, Porsche

The battle for McLaren is far from over

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How Alpina gave the BMW M3’s engine an entirely new character

The shared internals are the same, but how the BMW M3 and Alpina B3’s engine’s perform are drastically different

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BMW 128ti finishes in 10th place at MOTOR’s Sports Car of the Year 2022

In a field full of sports car heroes, one contender still has to round out the proceedings

2021 Volkswagen Passat 162TSI Alltrack Premium review
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2022 Volkswagen Passat Alltrack review: 162TSI Premium

The Passat’s rugged, taller Alltrack offering swaps diesel power for petrol

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How the Ford Mustang Mach 1 transmission saved it on track

The Mach 1 was able to do what no Ford Mustang has done before. Finish PCOTY testing without going into limp mode. Here’s how