Looking much less toaster-like than the outgoing model, the 2009 Nissan Cube has been officially unveiled at the LA Auto Show alongside its far more streamlined 370Z brother.

Up until now the Cube has remained unique to the Japanese market. However from early next year, the quirky Cube will cease to be just another oddball compact [...]

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The Kia Soul, which we’ve looked at recently as a potentially great fallback if the Nissan Cube doesn’t make it to Australia, has been snapped in production (or something like production) at Kia’s factory. I’d always assumed it was more than a little difficult to get a camera into an automotive [...]

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What is this travesty? There is no mention on TMR of one of the greatest automotive designs of all time. I’m not talking about a red-headed Italian or a precision engineered German or even a voluptuous French coach. No, I speak of (drum roll, please) the Nissan Cube. Performance-wise, there’s nothing to write home about. [...]

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Just prior to Christmas we showed you the official images and provided some of the details concerning the facelifted 2008 Mercedes SLK range. At the time the only mention of the SLK55 AMG version was that the same supercharged 5.5-litre V8 used in the outgoing model was being carried over, unchanged – not that it [...]

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Fiat have just announced that their Punto Abarth is heading for Australia and should be on sale by mid 2008, which is great news for performance hatch enthusiasts. It’s been a long time between drinks for the revered Abarth badge.

Compared to a standard Punto, the Abarth versions track has been widened by 6 mm and [...]

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Overwhelming Force
With a 309kW E92 BMW M3 on the horizon and the 309kW Audi RS4 already with us it only seems fitting that AMG should warm over the next generation C-class to at least try and keep up.

Once again down at AMG it appears that they have been hanging around the paint shop inhaling [...]

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