Hold onto your hats convertible fans: around 10am AEST tomorrow (7:00PM EDT for the US), Nissan will be unveiling the 2009 370Z Roadster at an event to be broadcast live on the interwebs.

As revealed earlier in the year, the 370Z’s topless sibling will feature a soft-top roof to keep weight down and storage relatively unaffected, [...]

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Talk about quick off the mark. Nissan’s all-new Z34 370Z may have only been on sale in Japan for just two days, but a range of aftermarket options has already appeared on the scene. Nissan’s in-house tuning company Nismo has rolled out its S-Tune package for the 370Z, bringing even wilder styling, sharper handling and a [...]

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Nissan’s all-new 370Z is still well over a week from its global debut at the LA Auto Show, but that hasn’t stopped the automaker’s in-house tuning company Nismo from prepping its own tuned version of the boldly-designed sportscar.

It’s not entirely clear whether Nismo will be offering the 370Z S-Tune as a complete car or will [...]

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Volvo has extended the R-Design styling pack to include its XC90 and V70 ranges, a move it says will “increase their dynamic appeal for Australian customers”.

The  R-Design styling pack has been available on the C30, S40 and V50 T5 models for some time now. The latest additions to the R-Design rank include the XC90 3.2, [...]

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Barely a week has passed since images of the upcoming 370Z flooded the internet, and here we’ve got a single solitary image of what looks pretty likely to be the successor to Nismo’s stunning, albeit somewhat over the top, 350Z S-Tune GT.

Is this some clever doctoring of an as-yet unrevealed photo of the standard 370Z, [...]

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At a recent press conference presided over by Arnold “Der Governator” Schwarzenegger, Tesla motor co. announced that it would be bringing to market an all-electric “multi-use sport sedan” in the near future. That brings the number of announced Tesla models to two, however unlike its stablemate the Roadster the Model S still has far to [...]

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As already reported Škoda are staging a return to Australia in the dying months of 2007 and they are starting the ball rolling by offering two models, the Roomster and the Octavia. The Octavia is Škoda’s top-selling and most popular vehicle and is best described as a European package at an accessible price point.

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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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