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Motoring fans’ heaven where $1m won’t buy much
Take a look inside Melbourne’s GG Classic Cars, Australia’s only million-dollar dealership, where $1m in many cases might only buy half a machine.
Is this BMW the Taylor Swift of cars?
I admit that BMW’s X5 xDrive50e M Sport is technically brilliant. But like many modern cars, it leaves me cold.
Second brand quits car industry body
Another electric vehicle maker has quit the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, accusing the body of misleading the public on the government’s new emissions standards.
Range Rover EV has an extra offroad advantage
Range Rover is preparing for a heavily electrified future, with plans for an EV option for each model in the showroom by the end of the current decade.
I gave Tesla’s Cybertruck a 48-hour thrashing. It (mostly) survived
It’s the world’s most polarising vehicle. Here it is tested to the limit — and beyond — for two days to find out how hardy it is.
This EV is the first Renault I’ve driven in years
Renault no longer makes the kind of fizzing firecracker sporty turbocharged Meganes that I like, because it’s rushing towards being a fully EV company by 2030. Let’s take a look at the Megane E-Tech.
Red Bull reign in Bahrain stays mainly in the pain
It appears we’re in for more red bulldust from Ginger Spice’s husband after the F1 team supremo was cleared of inappropriate behaviour only for more damning evidence to be sent to journos.
I climbed aboard this Porsche and nearly had a heart attack
Why are modern cars always in a flap about something? I started up this Porsche Cayenne S and was instantly met with a barrage of bongs, beeps and flashing warning lights.
Motoring industry seeks fuel favours
Peak motoring bodies want rewards built into the government’s fuel efficiency standard to make the plan more realistic for car manufacturers.
The truth about plug-in hybrids
The government’s new emissions target will encourage car makers to adopt this technology, which promises to make cars more powerful and efficient. But there is a big catch.
Reasons why our road warriors are all the rage
A Monash University study backs up what we all see on a daily basis: Aggressive driving is a significant road safety problem and it’s getting worse.
Toyota attacked for lobbying against emissions law
The country’s biggest brand has been labelled “cynical” for employing “scare tactics” against the government’s proposed CO2 standards.
Polestar 4 breaks the rear window
The Polestar 4 has done away with the rear glass altogether, replacing it with a panel and making it look like a motor show concept car that has somehow snuck out onto public roads.
This car has everything — including a great left hook
I know I should be old enough to know better and admit I am fully aware that I have an unfeasibly large head – but I still blame the doors on the BMW X6.
The truth about driving an electric vehicle
After spending more than 3000km behind the wheel of a long-range electric vehicle, we discovered that Australia isn’t as prepared as it should be for the technology.
Dreaming of a wet tent in an otherwise dry desert
If you’re heading to Bahrain’s F1, and who wouldn’t be, just remember if you want a soothing bevy in the desert sands stands you’ll encounter a bit of a dry argument.
Beautiful boats, luxury cars, and the sapphire city
If you have ever seen an F50 hydrofoiling catamaran gliding across the water, you’ll know it’s almost balletic.
Is this the end of car racism as we know it?
I am marking in stone this car as the moment Chinese cars arrived as a force to be reckoned with. And this MG4 happens to be a Hyundai Excel-sized bargain.
Mazda fined $11.5m for misleading conduct over ‘lemons’
Mazda has been fined $11.5m by the Federal Court in a case brought by the ACCC against the carmaker for misleading owners about their consumer rights over their faulty cars.
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