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Best Small SUVs

Best Small SUVs 2025: Over $50K

Ratings and reviews of the Best Small SUVs priced over $50K on the Australian market… plus our category winner.

Best Small SUVs

Best Small SUVs 2025: Under $40K

Ratings and reviews of the Best Small SUVs priced under $40K on the Australian market… plus our category winner.

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Volkswagen Golf GTI’s mid-life makeover

Mid-life updates aim to keep the archetypal hot hatch fun and useable

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Top 10 biggest mid-size SUV boots

They dominate the new car market but for buyers who prize storage space, what are the top 10 mid-size SUVs when it comes to boot size? The answer may surprise you…

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2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz review

Volkswagen’s first EV in Australia has a lot of expectation riding. Putting a big smile on your dial is a good start but does the ID. Buzz have the substance to back that up?

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2024 Volkswagen Touareg R review

The top-tier Touareg delivers everything you’d want from that R badge

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2024 Volkswagen Touareg 170TDI review

The top-end of Volkswagen’s SUVs impresses with its premium feel and drive.

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2024 VW Crafter Kampervan review

Volkswagen Australia has teamed up with RV specialists Jayco to create a local take on the big campervan theme – because we can’t get the Crafter Grand California for our market.

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2024 Volkswagen Passat review: International first drive

The Passat enters its ninth generation and sixth decade, but Oz sales look unlikely. Are we missing out?

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2025 Volkswagen Tiguan review

VW hasn’t exactly been knocking it out of the park recently. Is Tiguan gen-three a return to form?

Volkswagen t-cross range review
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2024 Volkswagen T-Cross review: Full range detailed

The Volkswagen T-Cross is based on the Polo hatchback and is the smallest and most affordable SUV to wear a VW badge.

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2024 Volkswagen T-Cross Life: Quick Review

The T-Cross is VWs entry into their SUV line-up, based on the Polo hatchback

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2024 Volkswagen T-Cross Style: Quick Review

VWs high-riding polo sibling is the most affordable SUV to wear the VW badge

Comparisons

2023 Cupra Born vs VW Golf GTI comparison review

Cupra claims its new, all-electric Born delivers hot-hatch driving thrills. That’s fighting talk. Enter Volkswagen’s Golf GTI

Best Utes

Best Ute Under $80K: Ford Ranger V6 Sport

All utes are our trusty workhorses, but which is the best when you’re looking in the nicer part of the stables?

Best Utes

Best Ute Under $60K: Volkswagen Amarok Life

Not everyone has the budget for the fancier dual-cab utes in town, but do you opt for a Ford or VW badge if you have less than $60,000 to spend?

Best Utes

Best Ute for Towing

When it comes to the important task of towing, it’s a straight fight between the Ford Ranger and VW Amarok twins in the mid-size ute class.

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2023 Volkswagen T-Roc CityLife review

What does the new entry-level VW T-Roc CityLife concede to its more expensive siblings? As it turns out, not much

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2024 Volkswagen ID.3 review

Australia finally gets the ID.3, in newly facelifted form, in 2024. Will it be worth the wait?

Best Small SUVs

Best Small SUV Under $45K

Looking for an SUV that offers plenty of features, for less than $45,000? We run the rule over eight contenders, including new-generation versions of the Hyundai Kona, Nissan Qashqai, and Subaru Crosstrek (formerly XV)

Best Small SUVs

Best Small SUV Winner: Volkswagen T-Roc

The Volkswagen T-Roc is the 2023 best small SUV in Australia, thanks to a well-considered range majoring on value, equipment and driveability.

Best Small SUVs

Best Performance Small SUV: Cupra Formentor VZx

Fast compact SUVs from the same house go head-to-head, but will it be the VW Group’s German brand or Spanish brand that prevails?

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2023 Volkswagen T-Roc review: 140TSI R-Line AWD

Does the new, more-potent T-Roc R overshadow the mid-spec 140TSI R-Line, or is the latter ‘just right’? Let’s find out.

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2023 Golf R 20 Years track review: The Ultimate Golf?

We hit the track in Volkswagen’s celebratory R