The official figures are in, and the numbers show that 160,000 Aussies and friends turned out to the see this year’s Melbourne International Motor Show. Organisers were pleased with the numbers despite not being able to best record attendance figures of 248,000 from 2008.

The Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) and its new car division, [...]

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Last Friday, The Motor Report attended the press day of the 2009 Melbourne Motor Show to bring you the big news and unveillings as they happened. However, there was one big reveal that was noticeable by its absence: that of the Mazda3 MPS.

Thanks to Mazda’s desire to feature a simultaneous debut of its latest performance [...]

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A left-hand drive production version of Hyundai’s Genesis Coupe was one of the highlights unveiled today by the Korean manufacturer at Melbourne’s International Motor Show.

The Hyundai Genesis Coupe and Genesis sedan, and a model line-up growing in strength, are behind Hyundai’s growing market share in the US (Hyundai managed to sell more vehicles in January [...]

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Hyundai’s segment-stretching i30cw Wagon went on display at the Melbourne Motor Show today, with the competitively priced load-lugger set to go on sale later in March.

Built upon a stretched version of the i30 hatchback’s platform, the i30cw blends a relatively compact frame with generous (for its overall dimensions) boot space - making it, in Hyundai’s [...]

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Hyundai pulled back the covers on its i10 blue and i30 blue concept cars at the Melbourne International Motor Show today. Both concepts come under the new Blue Drive sub-brand of eco-conscious Hyundai vehicles.

The i10 blue and i30 blue feature Hyundai’s advanced eco-dynamic Blue Drive technology, which consists of revisions to the vehicle’s powertrain efficiency, [...]

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It may not be the newest kid on the block, but that doesn’t make it any less worthy of adoration. Audi’s RS6 has been available as a wagon on Australian shores since October 2008, but sitting on the Audi stand, like the supercar-rivalling threat it is, is the sedan.

Pictures of this sedate-looking sedan fail to convey just [...]

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There was an air of excitement surrounding the Lotus stand as the minutes counted down to the launch of the new Evora, the first truly all-new car from Lotus in over a decade.

As the smoke and lights display was deployed to full effect and the silk sheet was slipped back, revealed was the only Lotus Evora in [...]

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Pack up your cloth caps and smoking pipes as Bentley is at the Melbourne Motor Show 2009. And, as if you didn’t know, the modern Bentley line-up is all about curvalicious bodies, pampering luxury, brushed-aluminium and wood-grain, and spades of powerrrr.

No new unveilings from Bentley at the Motor Show today, but four stratospherically powerful and luxurious cars on show.

The Bentley Speed [...]

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What would a Motor Show be without some Italian stallions to drool over? There may have been a no-show from Ferrari and Maserati at this year’s Show, but Lamborghini has three of its most enticing thoroughbreds gracing the convention centre.

The talk of the Show from the supercar perspective was the first Australian appearance of the LP560-4 Spyder. The [...]

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Expected to go on sale in Australia in the third quarter of 2009, the new Lotus Evora has generated extensive interest - and orders - since its first showing at the British International Motor Show in July. And now it’s on show here. The list of celebrities who have their names in the Evora order [...]

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Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to remind yourself how lucky you are. This is just such an occasion. Despite a world of doom and gloom, BMW saw fit to bring its searing-orange M1 Homage concept to Melbourne.

Anything less than centre-stage for the mid-engined marvel would be criminal, but even if it were stuffed in a back [...]

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The all-new Škoda Superb made its Australian debut in Melbourne this morning. This latest addition to the Skoda range is a flagship model for the company that links Skoda’s “illustrious past with its ambitious future…” (Škoda’s words there).

The elegant new Superb offers style and interior cabin space plus a host of clever features, including ‘TwinDoor’, which turns the car from [...]

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