Holden has announced that its upcoming small car, the Korean-sourced Cruze, has passed the Australasian New Car Assesment Program’s rigorous tests with flying colours, earning itself a five-star rating in the process.

The 2009 Holden Cruze scored 35.04 points out of a possible 37 under ANCAP’s recently revised testing regime, with its high level of passive [...]

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The latest Australian-made car to score a maximum five star safety rating from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP), is GM Holden’s VE Omega Sportwagon.

Being packed with safety features no-doubt helped the Sportwagon achieve the five star rating.

Standard safety features found across the VE Sportwagon range including six airbags, rear park assist and Electronic [...]

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The Alfa Romeo MiTo, which hits Aussie showrooms mid-2009, has been awarded a five-star Euro NCAP rating – the highest possible score – making it one of the safest cars in its segment.

The sleek new Alfa hatch racked up 36 points out of a possible 37 in the Euro NCAP adult safety ratings, and a [...]

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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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Renault has announced that its all-new Koleos will soon be available from Australian showrooms, bringing along its own unique Gallic flavour to the SUV segment.

The Koleos is Renault’s first 4×4 crossover vehicle and was developed jointly between Renault, Nissan and Samsung Motors, making the mid-size SUV French in name only. Still, if you were never [...]

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While the FG Falcon may be facing an uncertain future - what with flagging sales, the axing of its evergreen 4-litre six and the prospect that it may become a front-driver - for now, at least, it’s still proving its worth as one of Australia’s best-built cars.

At the recent Automotive Engineering Excellence Awards conducted [...]

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Ford’s FG Falcon is officially the first Australian-built car to score a five-star Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) safety rating. The home-grown Falcon achieved the score in the latest round of ANCAP testing.

A five-star rating is as good as it gets and puts the Falcon ahead of its local rivals, including the VE Commodore [...]

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The new Mazda2 is proving to be a sales success for Mazda and why wouldn’t it. Sporting attractive and distinctive styling, a five-star Euro-NCAP safety rating and a plethora of Car of the Year awards across the globe it would be hard to go past if you were in the market for this type of [...]

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Currently only available in a few European markets Audi reports very impressive interest in their new A4 sedan, with 33,000 pre-orders already in hand. The new A4 has only just arrived in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, rolling onto dealer forecourts in these countries over the past few days.

Next month, [...]

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Mazda Motor Corporation have just announced that their new Mazda2 has been awarded the five-star maximum rating in the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) adult occupant protection safety test.

Mazda have managed to achieve the maximum score despite putting the “2” on a diet. In an effort to achieve improved fuel efficiency Mazda [...]

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With Ford Australia getting close to the release of the Mondeo in this country the results from the latest round of Euro NCAP safety testing will be music to Ford executive ears with their new Mondeo earning a 5-star rating for adult occupant protection.

The test result for Mondeo was one of the top 10 [...]

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It was in March of this year that Peugeot’s new 207 hatch became available in Australia and not a lot has been heard since…until now. Peugeot have surreptitiously slipped the GTi version of their 207 hatch into their dealer showrooms with little fanfare or warning.

The new GTi takes the 1.6-litre direct-injection long-stroke turbo-charged petrol engine [...]

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