Mitsubishi Motors Australia has announced that the shapely 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback is now on sale throughout the country, expanding the Lancer range and giving Mitsubishi a direct competitor to the Lancer’s long time rival, the Subaru Impreza.

The Australian Sportback line-up consists of the base model ES, the mid-range VR and sporty-ish VRX. The ES [...]

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Mitsubishi has announced the addition of the new Lancer Aspire, which takes over from the VRX as the new flagship of the FWD Lancer range.

Engine size has been upped from the base model’s 2-litres to 2.4-litres, which brings 125kW and 226Nm of torque to the shark-nosed small sedan. The only gearbox available is a Continuously [...]

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Toyota Prius, Honda FCX Clarity, BMW Hydrogen 7. If there’s something wrong with today’s alternative fuel vehicles, it’s that they are all missing a crucial amount of glamour. You won’t find any teenage boys rushing to put posters of the Prius or the FCX up on their bedroom walls and even if you did, [...]

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Toyota has just announced the official arrival of its new Aurion TRD. The much anticipated “hot” Aurion gives Australian Toyota fans a performance car to drool and fawn over that actually looks good. The most powerful Toyota ever sold in Australia, Toyota believes that the Aurion TRD will inject some much needed excitement into its [...]

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There has been much recent speculation concerning the upcoming Hyundai RWD Coupe/Tiburon. We don’t know what it will be called but we do know that it is RWD (Hyundai have confirmed this) and that it will borrow the Genesis sedans RWD platform.

The image you see above is believed to be an “official” rendering of the [...]

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