NSW PREMIER Nathan Rees confirmed this week that the fourth instalment in the Mad Max franchise, Fury Road, will be filmed in NSW in 2010.

The legendary first film in the series brought Australian cars into the international spotlight, including the heavily modified XB Falcon Coupe-based ‘Pursuit Special’, the XB sedan ‘Interceptor’ pursuit car and [...]

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TOP GEAR UK is back on the air - in England, at least - and it hasn’t taken long for the boys to stir up a dash of controversy and intrigue.

The first episode of series 13 of the world’s most popular car show (by any decent reckoning) saw Michael Schumacher “revealed” as the head [...]

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THIS ISN’T STRICTLY car news, but who among the Gen Xers can forget Matthew Broderick cruising around in a beautiful 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California, before an attempt to wind back the odometer saw it crash through the garage wall and into the gully below?

Of course, I’m talking about the 80s classic, Ferris Bueller’s Day [...]

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What better way to welcome the last day of the week than with a few minutes spent watching videos? You know you weren’t going to really start working until just before lunch time anyway… Michael Bay, director of the upcoming Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen has shared a trio of [...]

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While we wait for the next instalment of Pixar’s and Disney’s animated Cars franchise, the nuts at Pixar have put together a short film telling the tale of Tow Mater’s adventures in Japan.

The film follows Mater - the rusted out tow truck in the original Cars movie - as he tells a customer that no [...]

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Certain thieves in the US city of Los Angeles might think they’ve won big, but they couldn’t be further from the truth.

One of the Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R replicas driven by Paul Walker in the most recent instalment of the Fast & Furious franchise has been stolen from a warehouse in California, the thieves also [...]

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The movie Angels & Demons opens nationally today, and the more motor-minded among you might have noticed the automotive star of the film and wondered what it is.

Well, it’s a 2009 Lancia Delta 1.8 Di Turbo Jet that Tom Hanks, as Professor Langdon, fangs around European streets like a man possessed. Maybe he is?

The direct-injection [...]

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I have a friend who refuses to watch film trailers on anything except the big screen. Even then, she’ll only ever watch them because they’re difficult to avoid when you’re sitting in front of it and there’s no ‘skip’ or ‘X’ button.

She tells me it ruins the experience for her, to see any of the [...]

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Thanks to the ridiculous success of Fast And Furious, the fourth installment in what’s swiftly becoming the Rocky series for the 21st century young male, The Fast And The Furious franchise will be returning for a fifth go-round.

In a recent interview with a US radio station, blessed B-grade actor Paul Walker confirmed that he, and [...]

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Mike and I will be honest with you: the Fast and the Furious films are most definitely one of our guiltier pleasures.

The sheer ludicrousness of the plot, the factual innaccuracies of the cars and Paul Walker’s ’stellar’ acting should, in theory, make these films something that we as car enthusiasts abhor, but for some crazy [...]

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Tales detailing the demise of Vin Diesel’s and Paul Walker’s respective careers appear to have been exaggerated, after Fast and Furious generated $US72.5 million over the weekend.

According to CNN, preliminary estimates indicate that the film, which opened to mostly negative reviews, broke box office records for the biggest April opening in history and the best [...]

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General Motors may have been forced to slash its advertising budget, dropping support for the upcoming film Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen in the process, but that doesn’t mean Trans-fans are going to have to miss out entirely.

In fact, this news will probably put smiles on more than a few dials.

If the whispers around [...]

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Aussie actor (and one of our ambassadors to Hollywood) Eric Bana has scored some pretty impressive starring roles in the past, and proven each time that he’s got the chops for the job.

This time around, though, he has chosen to share the spotlight with his own 1973 XB Falcon GT hardtop.

Bana’s new film Love The [...]

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After being spied numerous time on set, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen star ‘Sideswipe’ makes his official debut at the Chigago Auto Show as the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Concept.

The Corvette Stingray Concept is heavily influenced by the original Corvette Stingray race car of 1959 as well as borrowing inspiration from other Corvette models over [...]

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Anyone paying attention to the news seeping from the set of the upcoming Transformers sequel will already know that Chevrolet’s Volt plug-in hybrid has scored a role in the film.

Until now, we’ve only had poor quality spy shots and eye-witness accounts to go on, but GM has thrown all of that out the window with [...]

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If your taste in films runs to inspiring pathetic dialogue, award-worthy eye-burning computer effects, and stunts and jumps made of the stuff of legends the warmed up corpses of every B-grade movie ever made (mine does!), the fourth instalment in the hoonerific Fast & Furious franchise will be right up your alley.

But wait.  Is it [...]

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First it was the automakers themselves, then automotive parts manufacturers, then the auto financing industry. Now even the automotive entertainment industry is taking a financial hit, with the BBC announcing budget cuts to the eternally-popular Top Gear series.

Does this mean that we won’t be seeing as many supercar vs man/plane/boat/train/blimp races in 2009? Will Clarkson, [...]

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Well chaps, yet another hour and a half of Jason Statham’s grimaces and steely-eyed stares have been visited upon us, this time in the form of Paul W.S. Anderson’s (Event Horizon, AVP) Death Race, the remake of 1976’s Death Race 2000.  I wonder; could they not have called it Death Race 2012?  Anyway, let’s move [...]

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When we post news of upcoming car movies, well, it’s usually just another throwaway action flick.  This one’s a bit different.

Flash of Genius tells the story of Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent window wiper, and his battle with Ford for recognition after they stole it from him. A struggling but happy family man [...]

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For those of you who were, like me, disappointed with the lack of attention the Aston Martin DBS received in Casino Royale, you’ll be pleased to see in the trailer for the Quantum of Solace that it looks like we’re up for a much stronger dose this time around.

The 22nd Bond instalment, titled James Bond: [...]

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I think we all know that, like a school kid’s lunch money and the comic book shelf at the newsagents down the road from school, I’m bound to break that promise.  But let’s move on.

I’ve just crawled home from a function at a warehouse here in Melbourne’s outer suburbs loaded with racing simulators—replete with the [...]

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Universal Pictures have released 17 snarling, rabid photos from their cage on the back lot of the studios, revealing that Paul W.S. Anderson’s upcoming film Death Race is set to take everything we know and love about classic post-apocalyptic car movies—including the original Death Race 2000 film upon which it’s loosely based—and drop a warm [...]

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