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Wheels: Jesse Taylor reviews Porsche’s new 911
Two days ago I asked myself whether Porsche’s new 991 911 would crack my all-time top 10. After a day of hard driving in the mountains around Santa Barbara, California, the answer is yes and no.

LA Motor Show: Big Merc to tackle the bends
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the AMG-tweaked version of its ML-Class SUV to the public for the first time at the Los Angeles Motor Show.

Motor Magazine: LA Motor Show’s Best Cars Pt. 1
Motor Magazine’s Editor Andrew MacLean highlighted the best of the best on display at the 2011 LA Motor Show.

Motor Magazine: LA Motor Show’s Best Cars Pt. 2
Motor Magazine’s Editor Andrew MacLean highlighted the best of the best on display at the 2011 LA Motor Show.

Motor Magazine: the Best Modified Cars at the LA Motor Show
Here’s a selection of some of the best modified cars on display exclusively brought to you by Motor Magazine Editor Andrew MacLean.

LA Auto Show: Porsche Panamera GTS
When Porsche’s head of research and development uses the words, “uncompromising sportscar” and “race track experience” you expect him to unveil a 911 GT3, but these words introduced the new Panamera GTS.

Subaru Impreza
IT’S ALMOST an expectation that controversy will follow the tail (or nose) of a new Subaru Impreza.

Audi A6 TDI/TFSI
It’s never been a big seller in Australia, outdone by rivals from Mercedes-Benz and BMW, but that’s likely to change with the introduction of the fourth-generation C7 A6 – especially in four-cylinder, front-wheel-drive form tested here.

2011 Volkswagen Jetta Review
THE Chum Creek Road is one of Victoria’s driving delights, curling its way upward from Healesville into the Toolangi State Forest. The corners can be rough or smooth, changes of direction rapid-fire or constant.

Funny road signs from around the world
Have you ever wondered what sort of work goes into making a road sign? It’s actually an intensive, ongoing process – one involving more than posting giant white lettering on a big reflective sign.

Top ten most basic cars ever made
Top ten most basic cars ever made

The Worlds Most Stolen Cars
The Worlds Most Stolen Cars

Opel Zafira Tourer
Though it doesn’t quite feel like it’s running on rails, the Zafira Tourer is smooth and stable at a 180km/h cruise on the unrestricted autobahn outside Munich.

Bizarre concept cars of the 1990s
Bizarre concept cars of the 1990s

Live Blog – Day 4
Stinking hot Heathcote’s drag strip is where the final part of PCC 2011 takes place, with the first off the rank the smurf blue feral-sounding Jaguar XJR-S.

Live Blog – Day 3: morning
The day began with car allocation for the road loop north, where the 18-man crew hope that the car they’re given to start off in is one on their bucket list.

Live Blog – Day 3: afternoon
This is what it’s all about: brilliant, challenging roads and equally matched performance cars.

Live Blog – day 2: morning
BMW is championing its sixth-generation 3 Series as a bigger yet lighter, and faster yet more frugal compact rear-drive sedan.

Live Blog – day 2: afternoon
The gods have turned Phillip Island from a wet, miserable place barely suitable for photographs to a glorious playground for our judges. Yet Ponchard wasn’t the first to spin – Curt Dupriez won that contest, and in the Cayman R, no less.

DRIVEN: Hyundai i40 Tourer
Maybe the i40 Tourer suggests Hyundai also realises the clock is ticking, because this mid-size wagon is just about the most interesting mainstream car the big Korean has launched in Australia.

It’s back: Motor’s Performance Car Cup 2011
Sixteen cars, a bunch of car nuts and one helluva a week. Welcome to MOTOR’s Performance Car Cup 2011.

Live Blog: day 1
We’ve assembled the fastest, baddest and meanest cars of the past 12 months, from screaming turbocharged four-pots, sweet sixes, atmo and turbocharged V8s and, for good measure a V10 too.

The world’s greatest cars by country
After much deliberation we’ve settled on a standout model from each of the major car building nations and quite a few minor ones too. In theory, they’ve all got an equal chance of impressing. In reality, it’s a mix of bona fide classics, exotic rarities and the obscure.

Funny Bumper Stickers
Funny Bumper Stickers