PORSCHE HAS made a big thing out of its four-door Panamera, and now news has come through that the German supercar manufacturer will offer V6 and hybrid versions of the currently V8-only super saloon in 2010.

Porsche is working to bring a hybrid version of the Cayenne SUV to market, using an Audi-sourced 3.0 litre V6, [...]

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Seat has pulled the wraps on the hottest Ibiza in existence at the Auto Salon Barcelona. Better still, the production version you see here is largely unchanged from the concept version we brought you last month.

Sure, the ‘Motor Show specific’ alloys and headlights are MIA but it’s not like the overall look of the car [...]

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Government incentives may have helped Volkswagen AG eclipse Toyota as the world’s best selling carmaker in the first quarter of 2009.

Demand for VW products in the major markets of Germany, China and Brazil (which, combined, account for half of all VW groups sales) has been fuelled by government incentives encouraging people to buy new cars.

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Seat will be taking the covers off its angry-faced Ibiza Bocanegra at the Barcelona Motor Show next month, giving us a tantalising look at a hot hatch that we most definitely won’t be seeing on Australian roads.

Styled after the Bocanegra concept (pictured) that graced the halls at last year’s Geneva Motor Show, the Ibiza Bocanegra [...]

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The upcoming Geneva Motor Show has been selected as venue for the debut of SEAT’s updated Leon and Altea but, as is all too common these days, Seat just couldn’t wait.

Thanks to these preliminary images, we can see that both models get a minor visual facelift including revised grilles, head lights, and a new tailgate [...]

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Spanish automaker SEAT has announced the release of the sporty Linea R variant of its popular Leon hatchback. The VW Golf-based Linea R gets an updated range of diesel and petrol motors, a bold new design and a smattering of other cosmetic enhancements to take it into 2009.

For starters there’s a new front bumper that [...]

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Working in collaboration with Germany’s Fachhochschule Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences, RMIT University researchers have unveiled Australia’s first hydrogen-powered race car.

The car will be bidding for the title of world’s fastest hydrogen-powered racer when it attempts to break the Guinness World Records mark for speed by a vehicle of its class in early 2009.

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Some things are just plain wrong. Like pineapple on pizza. Like bicycle pants. And like putting “BMW” and “bargain” in the same sentence. That’s gotta be wrong. So what’s going on with the BMW 125i Coupe? Who ever heard of a BMW-badged two-door coupe, a growling three-litre straight six in the snout (like we’re talking [...]

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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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  Aside from the strong-selling XC90, Volvo has been struggling to trouble the scorer in Australia these days. But that does not mean that the Ford-owned Swedish brand does not have some worthy cars in its model line-up. Any and all of its T-designated models, ‘T’ signifying ‘turbo’, are satisfying and swift drives; [...]

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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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Could Toyota be working on a two-seater drop-top sports car based on its upcoming iQ minicar? The blokes at Auto Motor und Sport certainly think such a project is in the works, and have published a rendering of what they say is a brand-new retro-styled mini-roadster from the Big T.

Those familiar with classic Japanese iron [...]

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