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THE ALL-NEW 2010 Kia Sorento, to be launched in Australia this week, is set to take on the 3000km trek from Darwin to Adelaide in this year’s Global Green Car Challenge.
The two Sorento SUVs destined for Darwin will be powered by the new 2.2 litre R-series turbo diesel engine developing 145kW and 422Nm of [...]
INSPIRED BY the Honda Cub 50cc motorcycle developed in 1958 and still in production today, the all-electric Cub is Honda’s vision for future urban mobility.
While driving through both front and rear wheels via a pair of small electric hub-motors, Honda is keeping quiet about power figures and the finer technical details.
Honda isn’t the [...]
MAZDA IS CONSIDERING bringing its RX-7 sportscar back to life, according to Britain’s Autocar, with design boss Ikuo Maeda pushing to make it happen.
Rumours of a reborn RX-7 have circulated for years and Mazda has recently been experimenting with dedicated sports concepts (such as the Furai, above). This news however marks the first [...]
THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED Lexus LFA has been unveiled, although some hours sooner than the Japanese luxury carmaker (and now supercarmaker) will have liked.
Due to be revealed early tomorrow at the Tokyo Motor Show, official information for the final production version of Lexus’ first supercar - including promotional photos and a short list of technical details [...]
AUSTRALIAN CRICKETER Shane Warne is reportedly gearing up to host six episodes of Top Gear Australia.
Reports this morning suggest that Channel Nine is in discussions with BBC Worldwide to snatch Top Gear Australia from current rights holder SBS, and Warne has been confirmed as Nine’s top choice to host the show.
Representatives for the Nine [...]
MERCEDES-BENZ HAS TODAY announced the updated 2009 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, available in Australia from October.
Priced from $214,900 (before on-road costs) and offering the same six choices of petrol and diesel engines as the pre-update range, the 2009 S-Class achieves fuel savings of up to seven percent over the former models.
Fuel economy gains have come [...]
TAKING A LEAF out of successful scrappage schemes overseas, BMW is offering buyers an ‘EfficientDynamics Credit’ worth $4000 on every new BMW ordered and delivered before November 30.
Describing its fleet as the most environmentally-friendly of any premium carmaker, BMW says the $4000 credit will be used to reduce the manufacturer’s list price of any [...]
FIRST REVEALED back in April as the Kia VG/KND-5 concept, Kia has this week revealed the production version of the 2010 Kia Cadenza luxury sedan.
To be sold internationally as the Cadenza and in Korea as the K7, Kia Australia’s Jonathan Fletcher told TMR that the left-hand-drive-only layout of Kia’s new large sedan means it [...]
POWERED BY the Korean carmaker’s new R series turbo-diesel engine, two new 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe SUVs will form the thrust of Hyundai’s attack on the 2009 Global Green Car Challenge.
Offering 32 percent more power and a 10 percent reduction in emissions over the previous model, the Santa Fe SUVs will go up against [...]
REPORTS CIRCULATING this morning suggest that popular UK automotive variety show Fifth Gear has been cancelled, however no official announcement has been made.
Launched after the short-lived cancellation of Top Gear in 2001, Fifth Gear grew to become a popular alternative to the reborn Top Gear series - although perennially in ’second place’ to [...]
THE FIRST COMMERCIAL vehicle to offer six airbags as standard across the range, the 2010 Holden VE Commodore Ute has been awarded a 5-Star ANCAP safety rating.
Already fitted with front and front-side airbags, the addition of curtain airbags means that Holden’s entire locally manufactured vehicle range now carries the top ANCAP score.
Holden Vehicle Structure [...]
SPY PHOTOS obtained in the past week revealed the updated 2011 Volkswagen Tiguan in testing. These showed that the small SUV’s frontal treatment will reflect the brand’s newer styling direction.
As shown on our speculative rendering (above), the updated Tiguan will likely bear similar headlight styling to the Scirocco, Golf VI, [...]
TOYOTA HAS REVEALED a styling update for the 2010 Auris, sold locally as the iconic Toyota Corolla.
Toyota Australia’s Roxane Persehais, although tight-lipped on exactly what the update would entail, confirmed to TMR that a facelifted Corolla will launch locally in December.
With styling revisions borrowing cues from the recent Auris HSD hybrid concept, [...]
EARLIER THIS MONTH, Nissan released a pair of stylised renderings that offered a glimpse at its upcoming global compact car mooted to succeed the Micra as the Japanese carmaker’s entry-level offering.
Today, leaked images have surfaced, likely to be part of Nissan’s patent and trademark application for the unnamed model, revealing the hatch’s production styling.
Official information [...]
FORD HAS TODAY announced its diesel-powered 2010 Ford Fiesta ECOnetic, Australia’s most fuel efficient car.
With an official fuel economy rating of 3.7 l/100km, the Fiesta ECOnetic has the most miserly thirst of any production car available in Australia, pipping the third-generation Toyota Prius and the MINI Cooper D by a mere 0.2 l/100km.
While the [...]
FOLLOWING CONCERNS raised by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Coles has cancelled a new 40 cent discount petrol offer it had planned to launch today.
Similar to campaigns run by Coles and Woolworths/Safeway in July, the discounts on offer would have varied from 10 cents for a $100 spend at Coles supermarkets, up to [...]
EARLY IN SEPTEMBER, BMW Australia announced revised pricing for its six-cylinder 323i sedan. It was a pleasant surprise, as the basic price dropped from $63,200 to $58,300.
The price adjustment saw the six-cylinder equipped 323i undercut the entry-level six-cylinder offerings of Mercedes-Benz and Audi by more than $30,000, and new car [...]
EARLIER THIS YEAR, the Swedish Government announced plans to have the country free of its oil dependency by 2030.
It is an undertaking that affects more than just the car industry. Volvo Trucks has this week responded with the announcement of field tests that will have 14 of its trucks running on Bio-DME, an [...]
NSW POLICE FIGURES released this week show that window and dash-mounted GPS devices are popular targets for thieves, with over 5000 stolen from NSW cars in the past 12 months - about 15 each day.
Police Minister for NSW, Michael Daley said that even though theft from vehicles has dropped 21 percent in the past [...]
NEW SPY PHOTOS this week reveal that BMW is testing an enhanced version of the current generation M3.
Visually, little is different about this prototype to the regular M3. The oversized ‘GT’ style rear wing however suggests BMW is developing a special M3, one for privateer racing teams and track enthusiasts.
Earlier this year, BMW and [...]
The 2009 Buell Lightning
HARLEY-DAVIDSON RELEASED its third-quarter financial results this morning, bringing with it the shock announcement that the Buell motorcycle brand will be discontinued immediately.
With motorcycle sales down 21.3 percent and net income down 84.1 percent on the same period last year, the American motorcycle manufacturer announced it would also sell its recently acquired [...]
DEVELOPED SIDE-BY-SIDE with Toyota’s upcoming FT-86 coupe, Subaru’s entry-level two-door sportscar has been spied testing this week at the Nurburgring circuit.
With flared guards and a profile similar to the current generation WRX STI, Subaru fans in Australia and the US might be inclined to dub Subaru’s new coupe the spiritual successor to the famed [...]
THE JEEP PATRIOT has come in for an update ahead of the 2010 model year, getting an all-new interior and improved sound insulation in the cabin floor and engine bay.
Due for a complete overhaul in the next 18 months, the updated Patriot gets a monotone ‘Dark Slate Grey’ interior with an all-new dashboard design.
The [...]
JEEP HAS TODAY announced availability of the Off-Road Group pack for both its petrol and diesel Sports models in the 2009 Jeep Wrangler line-up.
Joining the Off-Road Group pack, the optional Uconnect Multimedia system now features a 30gb hard drive.
The Off-Road Group pack, which features an electronically controlled rear axle differential lock, 3.73 axle ratio (manual [...]
PORSCHE REVEALED its next-generation 2010 997 911 Turbo back in August, and this week the wunderkind has reportedly cut a full 10 seconds from its previous best time at the Nurburgring.
According to British mag Autocar, Porsche’s engineers have managed to reduce the turbo 911’s time to 7:39, 10 seconds better than the outgoing model’s 7:49 [...]
REVEALED AT THE Frankfurt Motor Show last month, the updated 2010 Lexus GS range will be available in Australia from November.
Safety is the headliner for the big Lexus, with the 2010 GS getting active front headrests and an Advanced Pre-Collision Safety System with pre-collision brake technology as standard across the range.
Designed to prepare the vehicle [...]
FIGURES RELEASED this week by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) shows that sales of motorcycles, scooters and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) to September dropped 14.4 percent compared to the same period in 2008.
With 96,455 motorcycles sold between January and September last year, 82,601 were sold in the same period this year - a drop [...]
ACCORDING TO THE National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council (NMVTRC), current vehicle identification labels are too easily forged by car thieves, the fake labels contributing to stolen cars being ‘re-birthed’ and registered for the road. Ray Carroll, Executive Director for the NMVTRC, said four-wheel-drives - Toyota models in particular - are the most [...]
ORIGINALLY REVEALED in 2001, the MV Agusta Brutale line started life with a 750cc engine, growing to 910cc and 989cc in the years since.
The growth spurt continues this week, with MV Agusta launching the 998cc 2010 Brutale 990R and 1078cc 1090RR at Italy’s Misano racing circuit.
Developing 103kW and 105Nm of torque, the 990R is down [...]
OVER TEN YEARS OLD and one of the earlier examples of retro-inspired styling in a new car, the ‘New’ Beetle badge is quickly reaching a crossroads: retirement, or rebirth (again).
Speaking with press at a Volkswagen event in Germany this week, Volkswagen Group of America CEO Stefan Jacoby confirmed that a new New Beetle will [...]
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