Above: the original Ariel Atom.

WE FIRST HEARD about the Ariel Atom 500 back in March last year, and now the bonker Brits at Ariel have released details on its most powerful road-legal (in the UK, at least) weapon yet.

Powered by a supercharged V8 engine developing 373kW (500hp, hence its name) and weighing about 500kg, the [...]

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Episode III: Revenge of the Atom.

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If you’re a fan of Top Gear you may remember the episode where Clarkson drives the Ariel Atom, with his mouth open, cheeks billowing in the slip-stream as he guns it around the Top Gear test track? Well, he might think twice before trying that trick with Ariel’s latest version of the Atom, dubbed the [...]

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Alfa Romeo has started deliveries of its painfully beautiful 8C Competizione and it must be like Christmas for those few lucky enough to be on the waiting list. Just 500 coupes are being built and although there are Australian and New Zealand names on the exclusive owner’s list, left hand drive only means that local [...]

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Holden has unveiled its much-anticipated VE Ute range today, hoping to jag the interest of more than just the average tradesman. Rather than just a ‘rough and tumble’ workhorse, the new Ute is being pushed as a lifestyle vehicle and this has seen design triumph over more practical considerations such as load-carrying capacity.

Holden has spent [...]

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