Car News

2016 Audi R8 V10 revealed

Sean McKellar
While not dramatically different from the first-generation model, the 2016 Audi R8 is still immensely impressive thanks to a selection of new features, an uprated engine and a refreshed design. The range-topping R8 V10 Plus, shown here, features the same...

2016 Mazda BT-50 facelift

Sean McKellar
Mazda Australia has announced that production of the updated Mazda BT-50 dual-cab has commenced at the company’s manufacturing plant in Thailand. Mazda plans to introduce the facelifted model for the second half of 2015, starting with Thailand and Australia. The...

Future changes for BMW M cars

Sean McKellar
BMW is looking to the future and is close to finalising revolutionary changes to the way it does performance cars. The German car maker has told English publication Autocar that it may soon remove the manual transmission option from all...

Koenigsegg One:1 smashes record

Sean McKellar
A couple of weeks ago, we received word that Koenigsegg had broken the ‘0-300-0kph” record with their One:1 – with the 1340bhp hyper car accelerating from standstill to 300kph and braking back to zero in just 17.95 seconds. Sounds astonishing,...

Porsche 918 production ends

Sean McKellar
The term “hybrid hypercar” is all but engrained in car-speak today, but it would have seemed blasphemous not long ago. Fortunately, the world has come around. We now recognize the performance potential of hybrids alongside their economic benefits, and we...

New 257kW Focus RS

Sean McKellar
Well, it’s official – Ford have well and truly delivered on its promise that their new Focus RS will deliver “well in excess of 235kW”. 257kW to be exact, and 440Nm of torque. Even more remarkable is the fact that...

Toyota on track for record sales year

Sean McKellar
Toyota Australia’s reputation for manufacturing boring cars hasn’t stopped them being on-track to potentially post a record sales year for 2015. Australians bought an unprecedented 125,850 new motor vehicles in the last month of the financial year – 7,092 cars...

Volkswagen Transporter G6 Launched

Sean McKellar
Volkswagen have today launched the sixth generation of their successful Transporter van that is produced in Hannover, Germany. Key updated technical features offer better safety, improved comfort and convenience and greater driving dynamics in combination with improved fuel economy and...

Mazda rules out MX-5 Turbo

Sean McKellar
Mazda’s chief engineer Nobuhiro Yamamoto has gone on the record insisting that both he and Mazda have no plans to make a quicker, more powerful version of the new, fourth-generation ND MX-5. The announcement was made in multiple interviews at...

i30 tops new car sales in June

Sean McKellar
Australians bought more new cars in June 2015 than any other month in our automotive history, and it is also the month in which the Hyundai i30 overtook the reigning champions, the Toyota Corolla and Mazda3, to be the top...