THE IDEA of a performance wagon is not a new one. The practice of combining performance and family practicality has been a concept that European manufacturers have turned into an art form.

Take the BMW 335i Estate that we recently tested. It was hard to fault: close to perfect, even. But then, for $112,000, it would [...]

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IN A COUNTRY OBSESSED with V8 performance cars, you might think that a car like the F6, with its blown six, would have a hard time establishing its credentials.

Sure, FPV still sells a lot more V8s than they do sixes and HSV doesn’t even bother to go there. But being a volume seller in the [...]

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Auto shifter into sport mode, ease off the brake, right Blundstone to the floor and… WOOOOOF!

Yes, HSV’s fourth-gen LS3 has the grunt to turn even the most stubborn of non-believers into cubic inch converts. It’s one hell of a mill.

And if you get a chance to stretch it out behind the wheel of the Clubsport [...]

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Targa king Jim Richards has retired from the Targa Tasmania for the first time in his 16 years of contesting the event after hitting an embankment yesterday, damaging his suspension and holing the radiator.

With Richards out of the picture, the battle at the pointy end of the Modern class is now a three-way duel between [...]

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After setting the fastest time in the prologue, Kiwi Jim Richards has emerged as the leading contender in the Modern category of this year’s Targa Tasmania.

Richards, driving a Porsche 911 GT2, was nearly a second-and-a-half faster than his nearest rival, Victorian Matt Close, around the 4.5 kilometre course in Georgetown on Tasmania’s North Coast.  Holding [...]

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