Motoring

One of the greatest obstacles to purchasing larger sedans or wagons used to be efficiency. Families get enough grief with monthly repayments without having to deal with ever-increasing weekly fuel...

No need to remember when, ’cause everything old is new again, Peter Allen’s lyrics went. ‘When’ was between 1998 and 2006 – the period when Mitsubishi sold the...

Land Rover has really made inroads with its Defender, this fourth-generation version proving to be a beauty. It might not look much different from the Discovery 3 but the 4 is a long stride ahead....

Toyota's LandCruiser Prado has been an Australian family favourite since it was first introduced here in the mid-1990s. That was actually the second generation of Prado, the first not being sold...

 Ladies and gentlemen, in this corner, weighing in at 2535 kilograms, with a twin turbo 3.0-litre diesel developing 180kW of power and an incredible 600Nm of torque – more muscle than...

 For more than a decade, the name Subaru was familiar to people all over rural Australia because of a little four-wheel-drive ute that’s still popular today in second-hand form – the...

  It’s been the farmers’ friend for more than a quarter of a century. A vehicle that will haul a load of fencing down to the bottom paddock and get you back again without fuss or...

Audi is the fastest-growing premium brand in Australia. In the first months of this year, the company experienced its best quarter ever, with sales up 5.2 percent in a market that declined by 19.2...

Way back in the 1970s when recreational four-wheel driving in Australia was in chronological nappies, the term “four-wheel-drive” was synonymous with one word: pain. Suspensions felt like...

Artworks elicit vastly different responses, even from art critics, and car body-shapes attract the same sort of controversy. The new Mitsubishi Fastback builds on the most distinctive of all ute...

The Leisure Seeker C2364 is a well-equipped, seven-metre motorhome that makes intelligent use of its reasonably compact dimensions. Fit and finish are great and, given adequate preparation and...

There are very few vehicles that get country blokes actually salivating, but the TRD Hilux is right up there. Not only is the Hilux the best-selling four-wheel-drive in the country, it also occupies...

Run for cover. The new Falcon ute is on the streets and the stoush with traditional rival Holden’s Commodore ute is on for young and old. In the new eight-model range, there’s a ute for...

The release of any new iteration of a successful vehicle is always eagerly anticipated by prospective buyers, but none more so than a brand-new LandCruiser. Toyotas have been cruising Australia for...

What's got more cred than arriving at a B&S with one of the McClymont sisters? Simple. Arriving at a B&S in a VE Commodore SS V ute.This is a car with more attitude than Anthony Mundine. Its...

For a baby boomer, road-testing a BMW X5 is like stepping into Doctor Who’s TARDIS to be warped into a world populated by people with names like Spock and Skywalker. It’s a very high-tech...

Way back in the Swing era of music, a singer named Ella Fitzgerald reigned supreme. She wouldn’t make it today, lacking a photographic model’s looks and body. Though she had a voice like...

Think conventional European luxury vehicles and images of them belting back home after a clearing sale or successfully negotiating country property ‘driveways’ in the wet don’t...

You don’t get a reputation for producing bulletproof, completely reliable vehicles and hold it for more than 30 years without there being some substance behind the legend. Think country cachet...