It’s big, it’s bold, it’s fast, but most importantly, it’s Australian. The HSV R8 Clubsport is the last in a long line of V8 Australian made muscle cars. It’s a final hurrah for the go-quick Commodore and so it is with a slightly sad heart that we report on the latest HSV offering. Apart from some minor cosmetic changes, [...]
Thanks Brent: FORD’S latest generation Mustang is both a stayer and a sprinter, a solid workhorse when it comes to performance but a bona fide show pony whenever it is time to glam it up. LET ME SAY right from the start that I have never been a lover of automotive retro styling. The classic influencing the new kid [...]
Holden, Ford and Toyota will stop making cars here very soon. In a few years, auto manufacturing will be just a distant memory after the anti-manufacturing federal government killed off the subsidies last year. It was an odd move considering the tens of billions Australia spends subsidising the mining and fossil fuel industries, but clearly manufacturing wasn’t a priority. [...]
Scott Mclaughlin and the Volvo V8 Supercar A superb day at Homebush where the V8 Supercars series was being held. Many thought Sydney Olympic Park would be an expensive white elephant, but no not a bit of it. Apart from fistfuls of concerts, football games and miscellaneous community events, the magnificent V8 Supercars. Saturday’s event was washed out in [...]
Cop a look at this press release. Ugly and expensive. Buying the E Class for half the price is a better bet. “Perpetuating the success of the CLS 63 AMG, the new Mercedes-Benz CLS 63 AMG ‘S’ sets new standards in design, performance and efficiency. With it’s impressive athletic appearance and distinctive exterior and interior design, the CLS [...]
01. The F-TYPE is an all-new, two-seater, Jaguar sports car 02. Front-engined and rear-wheel drive, the F-TYPE is engineered to deliver pure dynamic driving reward and stunning performance 03. Visually, the F-TYPE’s exterior demonstrates a new sports car design language for Jaguar, with cleaner lines delivered through the discreet use of technology such as deployable spoiler [...]
UPDATE to our earlier drive of this very car late last year. Full pictures and review HERE:- I heard this car was being retired from the press fleet with almost 13,000 k’s on the clock. It would have been remiss of me not to take her around the block for one final victory lap. I should declare now that [...]
Queensland muscle car fans will get their first chance to see and hear Jim Richards’ new V8 AMC Javelin driven in anger when he uncorks it over the Shannons 2 Days of Thunder weekend at Queensland Raceway from June 23-24. Richards, who is Patron of the meeting, will be using the weekend to track-test the spectacular 360-ci 1972 [...]
I heard this car was being retired from the press fleet with almost 13,000 k’s on the clock. It would have been remiss of me not to take her around the block for one final victory lap. I should declare now that the SSV Redline is my personal favourite Australian car With this many k’s and this much time [...]
