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Australia loves its cars.

Bigger but not cheaper: SUVs are burning a hole in your hip pocket

After mortgage or rental payments, vehicles are easily one of the biggest expenses we now have. And bigger is not always better.

  • Victoria Devine

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The electric Ford Supervan 4.2 set a new track record at Bathrust this week.

The sound of silence is the future of motor racing

What happens to the world of motor-racing when far-and-away the fastest cars don’t have traditional motors any more?

  • Peter FitzSimons
Secret garage

Inside the secret Melbourne garage that hides a treasure trove of rare supercars

We get a rare peek behind the curtains at Auto Caché, one of Australia’s most exclusive high-end car storage facilities.

  • Tom Fraser
Lee Holdsworth, left, and Chaz Mostert at Bathurst.

Everything you need to know about the 2022 Bathurst 1000

It’s the Melbourne Cup of Australia’s motor racing world and the last time after six decades that the Ford and Holden rivalry will play out on the Mount Panorama circuit.

  • Millie Muroi
Porsche’s status as a luxury brand able to bump up prices makes it a moneymaker for Volkswagen, and could appeal to investors.

Volkswagen kicks off landmark Porsche IPO, defying market doubts

The share sale in the luxury carmaker could become one of the world’s largest listings even as record inflation and a Russia-Europe energy standoff has sent European stocks tumbling.

  • Jan Schwartz and Emma-Victoria Farr
The 650-foot-long Felicity Ace car carrier caught fire and was abandoned of the coast of the Azores.

Ship carrying 1100 Porsches and other luxury cars is burning and adrift

A mammoth cargo ship believed to be carrying thousands of vehicles including 1,100 Porsches was on fire and drifting off the coast of the Azores on Thursday after its 22 crew members were rescued from the vessel.

  • Vimal Patel
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Lamborghini are among the luxury brands reaping the rewards as the super rich splash out in the wake of COVID lockdowns.

Lamborghinis snapped up in lockdown ‘revenge’ spree

Tired of having spent much of the last year cooped up at home, customers are buying high-end items as they emerge from lockdown.

  • James Crisp
Going electric: Lamborghini will offer will offer plug-in hybrid versions of its Aventador SVJ Roadster within three years.

Lamborghini is splurging $2.4 billion to electrify its supercars

Lamborghini is the latest supercar maker to pivot from screaming V-12 combustion engines to electric.  

  • Christoph Rauwald and Hannah Elliott
The future of Supercars? A computer-generated image of a possible Supercar-style ute.

Is this what Supercars will look like after Holden's demise?

For touring car racing, this is a moment in the sport’s history that will define it perhaps more than ever before.

  • Stephen Ottley
Treasurer Tim Pallas before last week's budget speech.

Liberals reveal Pallas got special pass for 'nice little luxury Lexus'

Treasurer Tim Pallas, who last week told Victorians who'd saved for a luxury car to 'get a life', got special permission to have Lexus as chauffeur-driven car.

  • Kaitlyn Offer

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