This feature allowed me to turn a couple of 50-plus male passengers into hooting school boys as it hurled us from a standing start to 100km/h in a hilarious 3.7 seconds. But don’t get me started on the impenetrable operating system.
I knew my friend was in a terrible way – three days before he died I told my wife I was worried he was going to kill himself. But I didn’t tell him that.
I’m going to be a very busy boy. There’s AUKUS – all those nuclear-powered subs to negotiate. Not to mention US bases, Pine Gap and other means of sacrificing our sovereignty in the cause of better US relations.
How many consultants and pollsters did a billion dollars buy Kamala Harris? Did any of these advisers (boldly, bravely) suggest that the thinking of middle America had shifted? I reckon the answer is not one.
As the kids get older The Chap and I are increasingly living separate lives, publicly. All marriages evolve. The key is to evolve with them
Yes, Ford did have to design and build an all-new electric vehicle from the ground up, because the market demands it. But putting a Mustang badge on it is like slapping the Apple logo on two tin cans connected with a length of string.
Having failed to complete my secondary education – I walked out the gates of Eltham High at the age of 15 – I’ll confess I know very little about anything. Or everything.
Young men in greater numbers are cleaving to conservatism and all the traditional comforts this offers them, while young women are veering off into something else.
Sadly, buying an RS3 is a too-expensive proposition, but why not try this experience instead?
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Our underground movement is fighting back against the march of the black roofs on the hems of our cities and our denuded, sun-slapped carparks and pitifully neglected nature strips. And there’s an art to avoiding being caught.
By 1972, ‘guy’ replaced ‘bloke’ in Australian vernacular. Buddy never did, and hopefully never will, replace mate.
I’ve owned every imaginable brand from a Goggomobil to a Rolls-Royce. Dozens, scores, enough to create my own traffic jam. Now, at 85, I’m down to one car that will see me out.
Our local cinema has been shuttered for decades. Our long-term bank closed its doors – and its ATM – ages ago. But there are signs of life.
In so many ways we have created a better, fairer, healthier, more inclusive society than that which existed 60 years ago. And rightly so. But there are bits of the past worth preserving.
The S/T has been described as Porsche’s 60th birthday gift to itself, but frankly, on paper, it feels like it was built for me. But here comes the Roald Dahl twist …
Tim Walz’s very public journey over these past few months has been intriguing in terms of a fresh brand of masculinity in the public arena.
Starter jobs, student jobs, teenager jobs, call them what you will, they all have something to offer that is even more valuable than money.
I’m going tell the story of the most traumatic event of my primary education – something that accelerated my exit from formal education at the ripe young age of 15.
The mad rush towards an EV world has left the venerable German brand in dire trouble. And if they go, the brilliant new Golf GTI will go with them.
I was not only confident that I would dislike this car, I was certain I would find it offensive, and was looking forward to giving it the kind of review that burns off eyelids in a PR department. I was in for a surprise.
So next time you’re in LA, add this to your agenda – as well as Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills and the stars in the pavement. It’s as big a star as any in Hollywood.
What is the longest non-sleeping time interval in any day during which you are not engaged with your phone?
I support an Australian republic, yet retain affection for Charles the man. Because his mother lived so long and refused to cede power to her son, we now have an elderly, ailing monarch who has only touched his kingly legacy lightly.
This vehicle is fitted with every single mud-plugging option you could wish for – but it’s missing an engine.
I’ve always found it to be the best in breed, fun, well priced and quite good-looking in a girl-next-door sort of way. But times have changed.
Guesstimates about the most intelligent humans – the likes of Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Einstein, Faraday, Shakespeare and Newton – abound. But IQ doesn’t really matter these days.
Along with the Pill and the motor car, this design idea has been an agent of great social and cultural change.
Like the nicotine scourge that’s crept so stealthily back into our lives, we now have a generation not nearly as sun-mindful as they should be.
If you’re willing to reverse the McLaren Artura Spider into your garage so you don’t see its one fault, then I think you should definitely spend $525,010 buying one.
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