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.

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MINI’s first entrant into the increasingly popular eco-car segment has yet to make its first official outing at the upcoming LA Auto Show, but to give us a small taste of things to come, BMW has released the first batch of info and pics of its new plug-in electric city car.

The MINI E will make [...]

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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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While the regular hard-top Mini received its first major under-the-skin update back in 2007, the convertible version still slogs it out on the old Mk I Mini chassis. A Mk II replacement is still some months away from its debut at the Detroit Auto Show in January, however thanks to the folk at MotoringFile, [...]

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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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NSW: ah yes kiddos, things are in a right old mess up here in the ‘rum, buggery and the lash’ state. Politically speaking that is. We’ve got the on-going mess we loosely call City Rail, the desalination cock-up, a budget with more bits hanging out of it than an octogenarian’s underpants… and that’s just the [...]

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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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As coincidence would have it, I was cut off in peak hour traffic and copped a number of choice obscenities just as the earliest scent of this month’s column was forming in my mind.

Don’t get me wrong; some clown yelling out at me doesn’t normally faze me. Until, that is, I hear the words “you [...]

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Wish you had something akin to the GT-R’s multifunction display in your hand-me-down Corolla? Well, if you’ve got an Apple iPhone, you could transform that slab of plastic and metal into a bona-fide performance meter/datalogger.

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As you may have noticed, most of the TMR team are big fans of the new Nissan GT-R. Every tidbit of information is lovingly posted, and plenty of discussion occurs afterwards.

Of course, in the automotive journalism world its arguable that no car is truly reviewed until Top Gear gets their hands on one, and puts [...]

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Stefani Jelić is The Motor Report’s female conscience.  Unfortunately, she’s as much a car enthusiast as the rest of us, so she’s rubbish as an inner voice.

Living a life where a love affair with a $400 pair of Jimmy Choos can equal the love of a well-tuned engine on the side, what’s a [...]

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MINI debuted their John Cooper Works not quite identical twins at Geneva this year. Available in both Cooper S and Clubman body styles the JCW prepped cars feature improved performance and looks, in fact the JCW MINI is the basis for the MINI Challenge race cars.

Both new JCW steeds feature a 1.6-litre twin-scroll turbocharged engine [...]

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