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AdviceCar Airbags: how they work and why they’re important
While airbags are proven to prevent serious injuries and save lives, they can also be pretty dangerous, so it’s important to know how they operate
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AdviceDo I pay rego during lockdown? Answering your COVID car questions
Advice to keep your car in good shape during lockdown and to save money if you can’t drive
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AdviceDriving on snow and ice safely
Here’s how to stay safe off-road when winter adds snow and ice to the mud and grit
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AdviceHow to react around emergency vehicles
What should you do when you hear a siren or see flashing lights in your rear view mirror?
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AdviceCar maintenance tasks you can do yourself
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AdviceHow often should you service your car?
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Advice12 must-haves for peaceful family road trips
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AdviceElectric power steering: the pros and cons
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2005 Volkswagen Polo GTI pre-production review: classic MOTOR
Tiny tot Polo GTI set to pack big bang for bucks in two variants

Audi RS4 Australian pricing and features revealed
Twin-turbo V6 wagon goes on sale priced at $152,900

Bugatti Chiron hits 100 units produced
Molsheim’s new hypercar production hits three-figures

Burnouts in TV ads okay as long as Usain Bolt is in it, watchdog says
The world’s fastest man can stand and watch as a car rips mad skids, but a BMW i3 can’t win a drag race

Not-so robo: human drivers to compete in Roborace series after all
Roborace CEO Lucas di Grassi confirms human drivers will participate in Roborace events

Australia’s most expensive cars aren’t selling
They’re quick off the mark, but some of Australia’s most exclusive cars are hard to move
Self-driving cars will still crash with humans behind the wheel, study says
Carmakers are wrong to think they can hand back control of a self-driving car to a human when things go pear-shaped

2005 HSV Clubsport vs FPV F6 Typhoon vs Mitsubishi Evo VIII comparison review: classic MOTOR
FPV’s Typhoon is new kid on the block, but is its turbo six enough to put the wind up the Evolution VIII and ClubSport?

Audi e-tron GT to become flagship ‘sporty’ EV for Audi
Audi’s Tesla-attacking pure electric four-door luxury sedan will be “very sporty” when it enters production in three years

Ready for launch: 2019 BMW X5 development nears completion
BMW says it will put the Sports in Sports Activity Vehicle and makes the next-generation X5 jump for joy during testing

Ferrari SP38 is the latest one-off Prancing Horse
Ferrari’s One-Off program has pumped out another unique car for a wealthy customer

2018 Kia Sportage adds diesel-hybrid option, but not for Australia
Frugal electrified drivetrain unveiled as part of a mid-life refresh, but Kia’s focus here is on other tech

2018 Audi Q5 3.0 TDI Australian pricing and features
Audi has released details of a Q5-badged flagship that will join local showrooms later this year

2018 Audi Q5 3.0 TDI review
An extra litre of engine capacity and two extra cylinders mean the ‘regular’ Q5 can keep performance hungry buyers placated

Three of the coolest cars from the Royal Wedding
There was some seriously interesting metal on show at the biggest nuptials of the year

Kia Cerato GT warm hatch to benefit from i30 N program
How the Hyundai i30 N and short-lived Kia ProCeed GT are combining to provide Kia Australia with a proper, locally tuned warm hatch

2017 Ford GT sells for $2.4m at auction
Mecum beats Ford’s no-resale contract to shift big-dollars supercar

Next-gen Accord will be Honda’s showroom flagship, but delayed until late 2019
Honda has confirmed it will bring the tenth-generation Accord to the Australian market, though it’s still about a year and a half away from touching down in showrooms.

Aussie carmaking to return, British industrialist claims
Five years to the day after Ford said it would walk away from carmaking, Sanjeev Gupta claims Australia could again have a viable industry

Herrod Performance planning 522kW pack for new Mustang
Rob Herrod sets his sights on supercar-rivalling outputs for 2018 GT

1993: Peak Japanese sports coupe
And why the 25th anniversary of the “golden era’ is significant

2018 Volvo XC40 T5 R-Design quick review
We test drive the top-spec petrol XC40 to see if its function is as good as its eye-catching form

2018 Mazda MX-5 RF Limited Edition vs Subaru BRZ tS vs Toyota 86 Performance Pack comparison review
The best versions yet of 86, BRZ and ND MX-5 meet to settle the cut-price, rear-drive score

Ford Ranger added to wider Takata airbag recall
Almost 70,000 older commercial vehicles are scooped up in the killer airbag scandal