High Performance Hatchbacks on a Budget

Owning a practical car doesn’t have to be the killer of your performance motoring aspirations. Have your cake and eat it!

Peugeot 308 vs Renault Megane vs Volkswagen Golf

In an ever-automated world, here are three affordable Euro manuals that prove it’s great to shift your own gears

Peugeot 308 Access v Renault Megane TCe120 v Volkswagen Golf 90 comparison review

In an ever-automated world, here are three affordable Euro manuals that prove it’s great to shift your own gears

Holden Trax v Honda HR-V v Mazda CX-3 sTouring v Renault Captur v Suzuki S-Cross comparison review

Boom, boom, boom goes the baby SUV as Renault, Mazda and Honda throw sexy new metal into this fast-growing segment

VW Polo v Mazda 2 v Renault Clio v Peugeot 208 v Honda Jazz v Suzuki Swift v Ford Fiesta v Toyota Yaris v Holden Barina comparison review

Nine feisty, funky and affordable hatchbacks duke it out for urban supremacy. Can our reigning champ and 2010 COTY winner Volkswagen Polo blitz this fresh field of contenders?

Snackable Review: Renault Megane RS275 Trophy-R

Renault’s hardcore, limited-edition Megane RS275 is the world’s fastest front-wheel drive hatchback, but don’t expect much in the way of creature comforts like air conditioning, a radio or even a back seat!

Ford Fiesta Sport vs Renault Clio vs Alfa Romeo Mito

Cool Euro hatches have gone viral, with tiny engines that thrive on boost juice. Does the formula work?

Renault Sport Clio R.S review

Testing the latest pocket rocket from Dieppe

First Fang: Renault Megane RS275 Trophy

Limited edition Megane gets more power and extra kit

2015 Renault Captur review

Renault's baby SUV arrives at last

Top 10 Compact SUVs: Test

Australians love compact SUVs, but which ones really cut the mustard as genuine all-round on- and off-road family wagons?

First Fang: Peugeot RCZ-R

Peugeot's new RCZ-R provides plenty of substance to match the style

First Drive: Renault Megane GT-Line (2014)

New-look Megane benefits from specification upgrade and dual-clutch transmission

Head2Head: Renault Clio RS200 vs Subaru BRZ

Subaru's must-drive BRZ goes up against Renault's practical performer

FIRST DRIVE: Renaultsport Clio 200

The hot little Renaultsport Clio is back, and it's all grown up with a turbocharged engine and dual-clutch gearbox. Does the magic still exist?

Review: Renault Captur

Last year was all about zombies, but that’s all undead now. This year’s all about the … um, sub-compact SUV? Baby crossovers? Light-car cross-dressers? Whatever.

Review: Renault Zoe

The future really is another country, one from which I've just returned.

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.

Wheels Review: Renault Clio

After a six-year hiatus, the full Renault Clio range is returning to Australia, and what a brilliant comeback it promises to be. So great is this all-new, fourth-generation model that it may dethrone the Polo in the light-hatch class when it lobs here next October for around $17K. Sacre bleu! France is back in the segment it once dominated.

Open wide and say R

Can VW’s new Uber Golf R cut it against Renault’s Megane 250 cup and Ford’s sharp-as Focus RS in the battle of the hyper hatches?

LAUNCHED: Alfa Romeo Mito Sport

Feisty baby blends sporting cachet with character.

Opel Corsa OPC

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but probably not for the Holden faithful. Even the dumb kid in class could’ve predicted that re-tuning and re-branding cheap, crappy Daewoos was a stupid idea. Replacing a soundly-engineered car (the XC Barina) with a blatantly inferior product (the current heap parading under the same name) was a brave move – especially when the logical follow-up, Opel’s Mk4 Corsa, is such a quality effort.