2009 Nissan 370Z Manual Road Test Review
HSV Confirms E Series 2 Update
Aston Martin DB9 Road Test Review
2010 BMW X1 Announced, In Australia Early Next Year
Forza Motorsport 3: New Images
2009 Nissan Micra City Collection Road Test Review
2010 BMW X1 Official Gallery Leaked
2010 Jaguar Goodwood Special XKR To Debut At Festival Of Speed
2011 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe Previewed And Spied In Testing
2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Valentino Balboni Edition Revealed
2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Spied During Testing
Report: 2010 Audi Ur-Quattro Draws Nearer To Reality
DECLINING SALES brought about by the economic downturn may force German supercar manufacturer Porsche to slow production of its 911 range for seven non-consecutive days at its Zuffenhausen factory.
Porsche previously cut production back in late 2008 over the Christmas break. Continuing soft sales may again see Porsche take action to avoid an inventory surplus.
A Porsche [...]
INDIAN AUTO MAKER Tata Motors’ newest acquisitions, Jaguar and Land Rover, appear to be doing more harm than good for the company right now.
Despite strong sales of Tata products in India, the two British marques have been hit hard by the economic downturn and are spreading red ink over Tata’s books.
Tata’s end of financial year results, [...]
RISING CONCERNS ABOUT the risks near-silent hybrid vehicles pose to pedestrians, in particular the vision-impaired, has prompted Japan’s Transport Ministry to seek views on how to best remedy the problem.
With hybrid vehicles now the top sellers in Japan, the Ministry has called on consumers, police, vision-impaired groups, and automakers to discuss adding a mandatory sound-generating [...]
HYBRID TECH is increasingly the flavour of the month; now, even the most un-green marques such as Ferrari are contemplating their own petrol-electric high-performance models.
Not wanting to be left out of the game, it appears McLaren is looking to establish a hybrid vehicle program of its own.
The British supercar maker has advertised a job vacancy [...]
THE GOODWOOD Festival of Speed (UK) is but a few days away from opening to the public, and it’s shaping up to be a hell of a show.
The Infiniti Essence and GTbyCitroen concepts are already set to make an appearance at the show, and now Audi has announced that it will be celebrating its centenary [...]
MERCEDES-BENZ is expected to issue some light cosmetic refinements to its volume-selling C-Class sometime next year, with the most visible changes limited to bumper, wheel and lamp-cluster designs.
Interior trim changes will likely feature in the MY 2011 update as well, while the C-Class’s mechanical package will also undergo some subtle refinements.
Mercedes has already started to [...]
VFACTS SALES FIGURES for June 2009 contain a few surprises, not the least the strength of the recovery in the light commercial market.
This segment, it would seem, is being fuelled strongly by the Federal Government’s 50 percent tax rebate on equipment purchases to eligible small businesses. And while it’s hard to say it is propping [...]
ALTHOUGH BMW WON’T be bringing the admirably powerful diesel-powered 740d Australia’s way, the German automaker’s local arm will still be rolling out a number of new diesel models in the near future.
Chief among these is the new 330d sedan, which shares its 3.0 litre twin-turbo diesel powerplant with the just-launched 730d.
Generating a healthy 180kW and [...]
The Z car is back, or so Nissan says. But is the new 370Z a genuine improvement over the 350Z and, more importantly, is it a worthy successor to the legendary 240Z?
WHILE CARS LIKE the Porsche 911 might enjoy a longer, more storied history, Nissan’s Z has its own unique pedigree.
It might not be as [...]
HSV HAS CONFIRMED it will be bringing in a raft of new changes to its E Series lineup, which comprises the Clubsport R8, GTS, Maloo, W427 and the Statesman-based Grange and Senator.
The major upgrade will be a multi-million dollar exercise for the Clayton-based manufacturer and will constitute a comprehensive revamp of its range of performance [...]
SET TO REPLACE the Mercedes-Benz SLR - co-developed with F1 partner McLaren - the SLS ‘gullwing’ will be the first fully ‘in-house developed’ model for AMG.
Unlike the F1-inspired SLR, AMG has decided to incorporate influences from Mercedes’ iconic 300 SL gullwing coupe, including (naturally) the roof-hinged gullwing doors.
These new spy photos, while revealing little new [...]
The Audi Sportback concept revealed at the Detroit Auto Show this year.
REPORTS OUT OF EUROPE suggest that the Audi A7 four-door coupe, first unveiled in concept form at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year, will make its European market debut late next year, as a 2011 model.
This news, from German magazine Auto Motor und [...]
AUSTRALIA’S FIRST mid-engine sports car, the Joss Supercar, is a little over two months away from making its debut, with potential buyers and investors alike lining up at Joss’s door.
Ten solid orders have been locked in thus far, and Joss has been reorganised into an unlisted private company to fully exploit growing interest from investors.
The [...]
WHEN ROAD-TESTING the Ford GT supercar back in December, the first thing that came to mind with its bullish behaviour was how far from a car like an Aston Martin it was. My thoughts then were, “… power, beauty and soul, this is not.”
Let me tell you, the Aston Martin DB9 is the ‘real [...]
WITH THE NEXT GENERATION of Mercedes-Benz A and B-Class small cars in the planning stages, there is mounting speculation that the next generation of small cars to wear the three-pointed star may be spawned from an unlikely alliance.
German publication Auto Motor und Sport, believes that Daimler could make use of a Toyota platform for the [...]
WITH THE FIRST official images sneaking out yesterday, BMW has been quick to follow up with the first official technical information about its all-new new X1 CUV.
Although Australian specifications are still to be finalised, the car is due to launch here in the first quarter of 2010. In the meantime, BMW has revealed details for [...]
THE HOLDEN COMMODORE SS may be alive and well in Australia, but its American twin, the Pontiac G8, is on its last legs now that the Pontiac badge has been retired and GM CEO Fritz Henderson has ruled out shifting the car to another brand.
As a nod to the early passing of a potential hero [...]
The Mazda MX-2 is expected to draw styling inspiration from the popular Furai concept.
THE MAZDA MX-5 may soon have a new baby brother, according to the team at Auto Express.
Mazda is reportedly working on an entry-level two-seater roadster, dubbed the MX-2, which is said to take styling cues from the eye-catching Mazda Furai concept.
The consensus [...]
CARVER EUROPE, the Dutch company responsible for the extraordinarily dramatic Carver One three-wheeler, has declared bankruptcy and closed up shop.
While not exactly possessing the broadest consumer appeal, the Carver One - which put in an appearance at the Melbourne Motor Show - boasted a unique and innovative automatic tilting mechanism that improved manoeuvrability while looking [...]
NOT TOO LONG AGO hydrogen was the flavour du jour of the alternative energy movement, with most of the world’s major carmakers scrambling to establish their own experimental hydrogen car programs.
Now the tables have turned, and the humble electric motor - which ironically was more popular than the internal combustion engine before the widespread discovery [...]
EITHER THE DEVELOPERS of Gran Turismo, Polyphony Digital, are perfectionists to a fault, or they’re outright lazy. Because in the gap between Gran Turismo 4 and the upcoming Gran Turismo 5, Forza Motorsport 2 and 3 will both have seen the light of an XBOX 360 disc drive.
Arriving on shelves in October with over 400 [...]
“With no manual gearbox to worry about, excellent outward visibility and compact proportions, the Micra is a cinch to drive.”
FOR MANY PEOPLE, a car is little more than a means to get from one place to another. Basic transport, but a lot more convenient than public transit.
For this type of motorist, there’s a veritable smorgasbord [...]
BMW HAS TAKEN great pains to keep anticipation for the upcoming 2010 BMW X1 high, putting the hordes of Bimmer fans on a drip of close-up teaser photos and shots of camouflaged X1s tearing around town.
As all good things are wont to do however, a collection of official photos has made its way out of [...]
JAGUAR WILL BE giving its latest performance car, the “Goodwood Special” XKR, its first public appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this month.
The British automaker is remaining tight-lipped about what sort of mechanical revisions will be made to the regular XKR’s supercharged 5.0 litre V8, but it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect a modest [...]
COUPE ENTHUSIASTS with a little more to spend and a taste for something even more high-end than the stylish C-Class And E-Class Coupes, will be closely watching the progress of the upcoming 2011 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe. This model will replace the CL moniker in the company’s model name shake-up.
The rendering (above), along with new [...]
LAMBORGHINI HAS REVEALED that the striped, orange Gallardo we first saw a couple of days ago is indeed the eagerly awaited LP550-2, and, aside from being the first RWD Lamborghini in almost ten years, it’s also named after the most famous test driver on the planet.
Valentino Balboni has been Lamborghini’s principal test driver since 1973, [...]
LESS THAN A DAY after we first saw leaked pictures of what many are saying is the highly-anticipated RWD Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2, a mysterious Gallardo prototype has been spotted undergoing trials at the Nurburgring.
Sporting the front bumper and rear-end styling of the old Gallardo instead of the LP560-based nose we saw in the leaked photos, [...]
BMW HAS UNVEILED its most powerful diesel to date, with the twin-turbo 740d belting out a class-leading 225kW and a huge 600Nm of torque from its three-litre swept capacity.
Going on sale in Europe later this year, the direct-injected twin sequential turbo inline six is an entirely new engine, and although the most powerful oil-burner to [...]
WORD ON THE STREET is that Holden Special Vehicles will be bringing in a number of cosmetic and mechanical changes for its E-Series range of performance sedans in the near future.
A key component of these changes consists of mechanical refinements to the 6.2 litre LS3 V8 used by the E-series range, which should see power [...]
PEUGEOT HAS taken the wraps off its freshly-facelifted 207 range in Europe, introducing a number of mild cosmetic and specification changes.
The front bumper is different, with new foglight recesses and a reshaped grille giving the French hatchback a sleeker, sportier look. There’s also more chrome and LED tail-lights along with redesigned rear bumpers for both [...]
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