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2013 Toyota RAV4 Review
Do buyers of SUVs place much importance on razor-sharp handling, or are there more pressing priorities?
Review: Audi S3
Rapid, responsive, rorty. But where’s the passion?
Review: Kia Rondo
The Australian male is world-renowned for his stoicism. He goes over the trenches for his mates. He tells fibs to the same mate’s wife because a beer commercial told him to. That mate repays the favour by saving the first mate from a shark attack by punching the bastard thing in the nose.
First drive: BMW M235i
Never in the history of automotive journalism has a road loop done less justice to the launch model.
First drive: MINI Cooper
Sharper performance, handling – and price – for new Mini
2009 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera review
Handgun on his hip, the Arizona sheriff leans through the shallow driver’s window of Lamborghini’s new hardcore track weapon.
Indecent exposure – Audi TTS v BMW Z4 v Merc SLK 350 v Porsche Boxster S
Who needs sunshine when you have four of Germany’s hottest convertibles ready to unleash in the Aussie Alps?
3 Kings – Chevrolet Camaro vs Holden Coupe 60 vs Holden Monaro
We muster Holden’s oz-developed muscle-car royalty to find the coupe worthy of the pony-car crown.
Audi R8 Spyder
Top chopped, engine note cranked to V10
Review: Ford Kuga
It’s the most technologically advanced vehicle Ford has ever sold in Australia, utilising enough computer power to send a monkey to the moon, and back, and it’s not a luxury sedan, or even a mega truck, it’s just a medium SUV – the new Kuga.
Review: Volkswagen Golf 90TSI
Base model calls “fore!” as the opposition ducks for cover
Review: Nissan Pulsar SSS
Car companies love tapping into nostalgia. Invoking memories of a bygone hero is a shortcut to consumers’ wallets that potentially saves millions in advertising.
First drive: Porsche 991 GT3 cup racer
‘The Stahlmeister’ tries out the latest 991 Carrera GT3 Cup race car.
First drive: Volkswagen Polo
Former COTY winner undergoes light facelift with new tech
2009 Porsche Boxster S review
Wholesale powertrain upgrades deliver a Boxster S that’s not just better, it’s brilliant…
LAUNCHED: Mini Cooper D
Outstanding efficiency in cute-as-a-button packaging.
Mitsubishi workhorse Triton gets tougher for 2010
Triton now has a new 131kW and 400Nm turbo-diesel and impressive safety gear. It’s all about being tougher than the opposition.
Subaru WRX STi Spec C
Lighter, tighter, righter – for Japan, at least
Review: Hyundai Genesis
We’ve all felt it. That ball-clenching, stomach-churning moment of turning into a corner too fast, of feeling the tyres slip, the horror of knowing you’re about to crash.
Review: 2013 Honda Civic DTi-S Diesel Hatch
Journalists, by nature, are cynics. So when Honda Australia declared its first ever diesel, fitted exclusively to the Civic hatch, is as refined and as quiet as its petrol offerings, I sniggered into my morning coffee.
Review: Ford EcoSport
I’m trying to remember the last time I was less surprised by a photo than this one of a Ford EcoSport on its roof.
Review: Fiat 500 1.2 Pop
“It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!” singer/songwriter Dolly Parton once remarked. And then there’s this – Fiat’s ‘repositioned’ but otherwise unchanged 500. Now from $14,000 driveaway, it’s the least expensive way to look classy on four wheels.
First Aussie drive: Jaguar F-Type
Associate editor Westerman’s worried. He’s driven Jaguar’s F-Type through Spain’s mountainous north, and in the July 2103 issue, given it bigger raps than Jay-Z and Tupac. But has he got it right? Does European brilliance translate to Aussie awesomeness?
First drive: Honda CR-V Diesel
Honda finally brings the CR-V Diesel to Australia, and it’s got quite a lot going for it as our first drive reveals.
