January
Expensive toy or the real deal? Meet China’s new ‘flying car’
This model is from an established car maker and, in front of witnesses, it has taken off, flown around, and landed vertically.
- Ed Wiseman
May 2024
- Exclusive
- Online gambling
Gambling mogul lists superyacht at $10m, starts retailing supercars
A spokesman for Laurence Escalante’s private office said the sales were part of a new business venture.
- Primrose Riordan
June 2023
- Opinion
- Motoring
Thrill (or scare) your passengers with Mercedes-AMG’s new $214,900 EV
The EQE 53 sedan is stunning in every respect – but the electric vehicle’s range has been sacrificed for a dazzling rest-to-100km/h time of just 3.5 seconds.
- Tony Davis
February 2023
The Rolls-Royce Spectre EV is the purest Rolls ever
The $725,000 six-metre long and two-metre wide coupe is smoother, more silent and more powerful – not to mention better looking – than any of its V-12 predecessors.
- Hannah Elliott
January 2023
This $500,000 Mercedes is an unapologetic joyride
The next-generation 2022 Mercedes-AMG G63 4x4² screams disruption. Driving it feels honest, unapologetic and very bossy. I loved it.
- Hannah Elliott
November 2022
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
The new electric BMW with a cinema in the back
The i7 xDrive60 knows just about everything about its occupants and their needs. Passengers, why not watch a film on your own 79.5cm screen?
- Tony Davis
October 2022
Skoda delivers an updated, sportier SUV
Starting at $68,390, the seven-seat Kodiak RS is a niche proposition – but no niche seems too small for the Australian market.
- Tony Davis
March 2022
- Opinion
- Cars
This new Porsche will turn your onlookers green with envy
The 2022 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS is a sublime swansong for the naturally aspirated mid-engine racer. If you have to sell your left kidney to get one, do it.
- Hannah Elliott
December 2021
- Opinion
- Motoring
The best car I drove in 2021
The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a vehicle for the ages – even our dawning battery-powered one, because electric vehicles aren’t perfect yet.
- Hannah Elliott
November 2021
- Opinion
- Motoring
The new Lamborghini that makes me drive like a grandma
The Huracan STO’s door panels are as naked as the day you were born. It’s a track car supposedly meant for the streets, but is it fun to drive on them?
- Hannah Elliott
October 2021
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
This new electric BMW looks good (but drives great)
Ignore those buck teeth for a moment and set your eyes on the future revealed by the i4’s exceptional interior technology and confidence-inspiring battery life.
- Hannah Elliott
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
A shouty, fun new BMW is joining the hot hatch fray
The 128 Ti is a revival of a designation dating back to 1963 and a reminder of how much joy a well-thought-through hatchback performance car can bring.
- Tony Davis
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
BMW’s new beaver-toothed electric SUV isn’t as ugly as you think it is
A first drive of the 2022 iX reveals it is like a just-plain-decent person you might try dating despite their looks, because, why not?
- Hannah Elliott
September 2021
An SUV blended with a sedan? That’s this new electric Porsche
The Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo sport utility vehicle, an off-road version of the prestige car maker’s green flagship, is a bit of a jacked-up beast.
- Tony Davis
August 2021
- Opinion
- Cars
What it’s like to drive Bentley’s $2.7m Bacalar
This is the first of the small-batch, highly specialised cars the marque’s modern Mulliner operation aims to produce. If I could afford it, I’d buy it.
- Hannah Elliott
- Opinion
- Opinion
A supercar with creature comforts
The Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S may not look made for the track, but it drives as if it is. And it’ll hold your drinks, to boot.
- Hannah Elliott
June 2021
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
This flagship Lexus is one for the dwindling luxury sedan crowd
Despite its high levels of refinement and magnificent sound system, the brand’s halo limousine, the LS500 F Sport, feels dated next to its competition.
- Tony Davis
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
This car is close to the most fun you can have in a road-legal BMW
The company’s smallest M coupe is not only loud and brutal but feels as direct and responsive as a track car, which in a sense it is.
- Tony Davis
- Opinion
- Life & Leisure
Thrills but no frills in Tesla’s Model 3 Standard Range Plus
The near-seamless interaction of software, app and hardware is a delight, although you do have to touch the central tablet for almost everything.
- Tony Davis
May 2021
- Opinion
- Cars
Porsche delivers world’s first electric station wagon
The entry-level Taycan 4 Cross Turismo can handle off-road terrain and is a better buy than its far more expensive top-of-the-range sibling.
- Hannah Elliott