There’s nothing quite like the smell of an afternoon shower on a stinking hot day. But be warned: the smell of steam coming off the bitumen is a heady reminder to stay off the roads, because there’s craziness afoot.

Scientists have worked out what it is in the spring air that causes hayfever. Now I think [...]

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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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This Sunday just gone (UK time) saw the return of the one true Top Gear to British television sets, and to computer screens of net-savvy fans around the world this morning.  Let me tell you: they’ve still got it.

Clarkson pits the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 against the Porsche 911 GT2 – describing the latter as “terrifying”.  [...]

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Well chaps, yet another hour and a half of Jason Statham’s grimaces and steely-eyed stares have been visited upon us, this time in the form of Paul W.S. Anderson’s (Event Horizon, AVP) Death Race, the remake of 1976’s Death Race 2000.  I wonder; could they not have called it Death Race 2012?  Anyway, let’s move [...]

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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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I get asked questions daily about cars and their components, and one question that seems to follow me around is the question of brakes: “What do I do to improve braking performance?” The only way to deal with it is by putting pen to paper, so here goes.

An acquaintance of mine loves cars, much like [...]

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It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for… and the moment “grey” importers have been dreading. That’s right, from October 9 onwards, Aussie motorists will finally be able to pre-order themselves their very own officially imported R35 Nissan GT-R.

Just over a year after the order books opened in its native Japan, Nissan’s budget supercar is [...]

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Renault’s director of design Patrick Le Quement says the Ondelios Concept crossover is “inspired by motion rather than speed”. However, judging from that full-width chrome grille, it looks like that someone on Renault’s design team drew much of their influence from the 1967 Mercury Cougar.

Thankfully that’s where the similarities end. The Ondelios is Renault’s [...]

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Are hybrids not green enough for you? Do you prefer your eco-friendly ride to come with a touch of European panache as standard? Volkswagen may have just the vehicle for you…

Except they don’t. Not yet anyway. Their super-frugal, low-emissions Golf BlueMotion will launch sometime in mid-2009, but for now the concept version of the [...]

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Hyundai has revealed its newest i-series compact car, the i20, which will make its global debut next month at the Paris Motor Show and go on sale in the European market either later this year, or early next year.

Designed to compete with Toyota’s Yaris, the Honda Fit and the Ford Fiesta, the i20 will [...]

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Here it is folks, the ultimate weekend warrior. Audi has just announced that beginning late next year, well-heeled customers will be able to purchase a GT3 version of its mighty R8 supercar. That’s right: if you’ve got enough of the folding stuff, you can buy one of these babies and throw yourself right into [...]

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Ford fans across the nation must surely be giving each another some rather panicked looks right now. At a recent press conference to discuss the future of Ford Australia’s large car industry, Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally raised the prospect that the Falcon of the future could potentially switch from a rear-wheel-drive to [...]

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