Category: Opinion / Lifestyle

Recycled materials now go past ocean plastic mats. Carmakers trace and reuse plastic, aluminium, steel and battery metals, and the EU is making it law.

Sea Stacks Bicheno was home for the night when Polestar launched its 5 Performance, with stone baths, Zappi chargers and a view across Waubs Bay.

Volkswagen Caravelle replaces Multivan in the UK while Germany keeps the old badge, on a van that did 38,700 deliveries and never needed a rename.

The FCAI cut public VFACTS detail to 3 pages in the same months petrol and diesel lost 124,130 sales. Its members are the companies losing them.

The BMW roundel was registered in 1917. The spinning propeller story came from a 1929 advertisement, more than a decade after the badge already existed.

Mocked as a hairdresser's car for 40 years, the Honda Prelude is back as a 147 kW hybrid coupe with no direct rival. Was it ever really that car?

The Fiat 500e and Abarth 500e are gone from Australia, and it is the predictable end of a Stellantis strategy built on heritage and overpricing.

The FCAI fought NVES for years, then claimed the credit once EVs and hybrids hit 46% of new car sales. The great auto lobby backflip, now laid bare.

June 2026 shows Toyota holding the top brand spot over BYD by 243 deliveries. Tesla Model Y top car. Toyota is in trouble

Car subscription services are turning paid-for hardware into recurring fees, and buyers are pushing back against software-locked ownership models.

Australia's right to repair reforms are moving from cars to farm machinery, with software access now the fight behind servicing choice and fair repair.

European emissions laws have pushed fragile CVTs, dry DCTs, stop-start systems, and tiny turbos into cars built for lab scores, not durable life.