Car Reviews

Review: Audi S8

The people have spoken. Audi Australia has bowed to demand and given the S8 a ticket to Australia in the first quarter of 2014.

Driven! Holden's new VF Commodore

Does it matter how good the new VF Commodore is to drive?

Review: Holden Cruze

Difficult though it might be to believe, 2013 is not just about the VF Commodore for Holden.

Review: Kia Cerato

Kia’s naked ambition is there for the world – including Australia – to see.

Review: Ford EcoSport

I’m trying to remember the last time I was less surprised by a photo than this one of a Ford EcoSport on its roof.

Review: Volkswagen Golf 90TSI

Base model calls “fore!” as the opposition ducks for cover

Review: Audi S3

Rapid, responsive, rorty. But where’s the passion?

Customised Nissan Patrol GU

BJ Elliott’s introduction to four-wheel driving was in 2005 when a friend offered to take him and his partner Laura for a drive off-road.

Review: Mercedes-Benz GL350

What’s a nice drivetrain like you doing in a place like this?

Review: BMW 3 Series GT

Compared with the odious, ugly X6 or the awkward, ponderous 5 Series GT, the new 3 Series Gran Turismo is relatively inoffensive.

Review: Jaguar F-Type

Yes, it’s a Jaguar, folks, but almost certainly not as you know it.

Review: Subaru Outback

You can be certain of one thing when you show up at a Subaru launch. Japan’s most idiosyncratic car maker won’t be offering the same stuff as everybody else.

Review: Porsche 911 C4S

Is it a sign of the times that Porsche Australia reckons the typical 911 Carrera 4 buyer is motivated by its fatter stance and greater presence, not necessarily its extra grip?

Review: BMW 3 Series Touring

The station wagon is dead.

Review: Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG

Excess, as AMG well knows, equals success.

Review: Mercedes-Benz CLA

Thinking of the CLA-Class as a baby brother to the CLS is right and wrong.

Review: Audi R8

The R8 supercar is the best thing that has ever happened to Audi.

Review: Renault Zoe

The future really is another country, one from which I've just returned.

Review: Volkswagen Golf GTI

Can Volkswagen do no wrong?

Volvo S60 Polestar Limited Edition

Here, at last, is a truly fast Volvo that isn’t rubbish.

Review: 2013 Honda Civic DTi-S Diesel Hatch

Journalists, by nature, are cynics. So when Honda Australia declared its first ever diesel, fitted exclusively to the Civic hatch, is as refined and as quiet as its petrol offerings, I sniggered into my morning coffee.

Review: Mazda CX-5 2.5 AWD

Among 2012’s more eventful moments were Lance Armstrong’s performance-enhanced fall and the meteoric rise of Mazda’s CX-5.

Review: Ford Kuga

It's the most technologically advanced vehicle Ford has ever sold in Australia, utilising enough computer power to send a monkey to the moon, and back, and it's not a luxury sedan, or even a mega truck, it's just a medium SUV - the new Kuga.

2013 Toyota RAV4 Review

Do buyers of SUVs place much importance on razor-sharp handling, or are there more pressing priorities?