Coupes under $80k
- Home /
- Best coupes under $80k
If you’re lucky enough to in the market for a new luxury coupe, you’ll be able to net a bunch of powerful and stylish cars for your sub-$80k budget. Despite being limited to only two doors, coupes in this price range double down on the cool, as well as technology, design, speed and quality.
What’s more, the sheer volume of in this price range is high, so you’ll be well catered for in terms of options.
BMW 2 Series
The smallest offering of BMW’s coupe range, the 2 Series blends a small body with BMW’s famous driving characteristics. A number of engine options are available and the car comes in a convertible body style too.
Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class
The Mercedes-Benz CLA is a bit of a weird one, in that it has four-doors but still retains coupe bodylines and is classed as such. Even still, the CLA is a pint-sized package that definitely punches above its weight grade.
Mercedes-Benz C-Class
Stepping up from the CLA, Mercedes offers the C-Class coupe. It’s larger, more powerful and costs a little more, but you’ll be rewarded with its sizeable interior and nicer materials in the interior.
Top Ten Ugly Cars – Jeep’s bold bid for number one
Jeep has unveiled the latest version of its Cherokee SUV, and while Chrysler design chief, Ralph Gilles has defended it as strong and contemporary, others aren’t so sure.
Euro tuners muscle up for Geneva motor show
The 82nd Geneva International Motor Show starts in the western Swiss city this Thursday (07.03), and alongside design and coachbuilding icons like Bertone and Pininfarina, Europe’s most outrageous tuning houses will be there in force.
Land Rover’s Electric Defender
Forget what you know about electric cars. Land Rover has moved the goal posts. In a world of city-friendly EVs, Land Rover has broken the mould and built a hard-core electric off-roader.
Review: Mercedes A250
It’s not like Mercedes-Benz to get left behind, but there’s no denying the Aussie branch of the world’s oldest car maker has stood idly while BMW and Audi raked in the cash, and the entry-level buyers, with their 1 Series and A1 respectively.
350km/h Brabus 800 Roadster
Bored with the standard Mercedes-Benz SL65? Then this bonkers offering from tuning company Brabus ought to scratch your itch.
Jamie Whincup burnt alive!
Four-time V8 Supercars champion Jamie Whincup has been burnt alive in a high-risk stunt for a magazine photo shoot.
Confirmed! Nismo GT-R
Confirmed! Nissan will build the ultimate version of its ultimate road car – a Nismo GT-R.
Melbourne’s 50 year F1 extension
Melbourne will host the Australian Grand Prix for the next 50 years – if F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has his way.
Shock! Rolls-Royce to build SUV
Gasp! Rolls-Royce is set to break with more than a century of tradition and build a ‘radical SUV’.
Review: Mitsubishi Mirage
Since the closure of the Tonsley Park assembly plant in 2008, Mitsubishi Motors Australia has struggled to come to terms with both its past and future. Staff have come and gone, managing directors have been rotated like Aussie fast bowlers, and the GFC strangled the vital supply of new product from Japan.
Review: BMW X1
WITH Audi’s Q3 premium compact and smart, affordable crossover alternatives such as Kia’s Sportage, Mitsubishi’s Outlander and Subaru’s XV stealing customers, BMW is fighting back with a wide-ranging mid-life upgrade of its X1.
Review: Honda CRV
The new, Thai-built fourth-generation is easily the best CR-V in the model’s 17-year history.
VF Commodore Ute and Wagon revealed
Hot on the heels of the advance showing of its new VF Commodore, Holden has released pics of the Ute and Sportwagon variants.
New Renault Clio RS200 grids up
Renault Sport Techologies, the French maker’s race and performance road car specialist, has taken the wraps of its new generation Clio RS200.
Review: Porsche Cayman
Poor man’s 911? Don’t believe it. In fact, until the 991 911 range is filled out with the superstar Turbo and GT models, the second-generation Cayman S is the most focused and fun car Porsche currently makes.
Review: Audi RS4 Avant
Who says the fast life has to stop when you start a family?
Alfa’s stunning 4C set for Geneva debut
The production version of Alfa Romeo’s stunning mid-engine, rear-wheel drive sports car, the 4C, is set to make its debut at the 82nd International Motor Show in Geneva (7-17 March, 2013).
Benedict XVI to hand over Popemobile keys
In resigning his position as leader of the Catholic Church, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI will also be handing in the keys to the many ‘Popemobiles’ residing in the Vatican garage.
Review: Opel OPC range
The odd thing about pushing this car really hard is that you know exactly when you think the car will start understeering, and steering-wheel tugging, but it just doesn’t.
Toyota goes turbo with 86 racer
Toyota in the UK has released details of the first GT4 racing version of the Toyota 86, due to hit the track later this month following completion of the first chassis by UK-based motorsport engineering pioneer GPRM.
Nissan’s ‘Godzilla’ goes lightweight
Nissan has created a limited edition, strictly two-seater version of it’s GT-R supercar, with with a special suspension set-up tuned at the famed Nurburgring circuit in Germany, and lightweight, quilted cloth mats in place of the usual rear seats.
Faster than a speeding KIA…
Known as ‘The man of Steel’, Superman has been transformed into ‘Wheels of Steel” thanks to KIA’s tribute version of its Optima Hybrid unveiled at this week’s Chicago Auto Show.
Review: Mazda 6
If the new Mazda 6 was just 50 cents longer, it would be as big as a Commodore.
Holden’s new VF Commodore launched
The most technically sophisticated and electronically advanced car ever built in Australia, Holden’s VF Commodore, has broken cover.
