Plans for a Subaru Brumby-like compact VW pick-up – possibly inspired by this concept car – will be exclusive to developing markets such as South America, with less stringent safety standards.
2018 VW Tarok concept.
A new small, car-derived ute being developed by Volkswagen for emerging markets is not destined for Australian showrooms as a junior sibling to the heavy-duty Amarok.It is the latest compact ‘lifestyle’ pick-up available overseas to be ruled out for Australia,
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Volkswagen’s new small ute not coming to Australia
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2025 Volkswagen ID.4 Pro, ID.5 GTX priced: New electric cars complete line-up
via drive.com.auIn a staggered roll-out, VW has added sporty ID.4 GTX and more affordable ID.5 Pro models to its electric SUV line-up.Volkswagen Australia has filled the gaps in its electric SUV range with the addition of a new flagship ID.4 GTX and a less expensive ID.5 Pro model.The new additions to the Volkswagen electric-car range join the existing ID.4 Pro and ID.5 GTX models, which were first priced and detailed for Australia in February 2025.They fill the gaps in each respective range, with an entry-leve
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‘Chaos’: The toy cars that stole the show at the F1 Miami Grand Prix
via drive.com.auWhile Australia’s own Oscar Piastri took home the first-place trophy at the 2025 F1 Miami Grand Prix, it was Lego that stole the show.
Image: Mark Thompson/Getty images
While Melburnian Oscar Piastri comfortably won the 2025 F1 Grand Prix in Miami, Florida this weekend, it wasn’t the Aussie’s three first-place finishes in a row that took the news, but Lego.The toy car company took the spotlight’s centre stage after unveiling full-size Lego replicas of the 10 F1 teams and
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2025 Mazda CX-60 price and specs: Entry price down $10,500 with suspension, transmission tweaks
via drive.com.auThe Mazda CX-60 now starts from around $50,000 before on-road costs – $10,500 less than before – with a new base variant, and tweaks to its suspension and transmission amid customer criticism.2025 Mazda CX-60 pricing and specificationsAnother round of revisions for its suspension and transmission Pure and Touring grades added to CX-60 line-upPriced from $50,240 before on-road costsMazda has shaved up to $10,560 from its CX-60 luxury SUV with the introduction of a new entry-level vari
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Australian new-car sales in April 2025: Toyota HiLux back on top as PHEVs nosedive
via drive.com.auToyota HiLux deliveries were down the least of the Top Three best-selling new cars last month, helping it pip the Ford Ranger at the top of the charts in a declining market.The Toyota HiLux was Australia’s top-selling new car for the first time in almost two years last month, amid the eighth decline in monthly vehicle deliveries in the past year.And sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles fell by 62 per cent compared to the prior month – although they are still up 95 per cent year-on-y
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2025 Mazda CX-80 G40e Pure review
via drive.com.auMazda’s most affordable large SUV might actually present the most compelling all-round package of the lot.
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2025 Mazda CX-80 G40e PureMazda’s Large Architecture line-up is billed as “premium”, and what we’ve seen so far from the brand in terms of variants on the ground supports that. However, the cars h
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2025 GWM Tank 300: Base petrol variant out-of-stock as customers shift to diesel
via drive.com.auStock of the $46,000 GWM Tank 300 Lux turbo-petrol is currently limited, but the brand is confident the recent launch of the diesel will minimise any impact.The cheapest 2025 GWM Tank 300 in Australia – the $45,990 drive-away Lux petrol – has been removed from the brand’s website due to a stock shortage, with customers being directed towards the diesel model instead.A GWM Australia spokesperson told Drive the brand does not “currently have stock on Lux Petrol,” but
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2026 Leapmotor C10 under consideration for Australia with more-powerful electric motor, new tech
via drive.com.auStellantis-backed carmaker Leapmotor has launched a revised C10 SUV with a new electric motor and battery for the EV, and additional technology.An update for the Leapmotor C10 electric and range-extender plug-in hybrid SUV has debuted ahead of a potential Australian launch by the end of the year.
Revealed in China, the 2026 Leapmotor C10 has moved to an 800-volt electrical architecture – up from 400 volts – with a more-powerful 220kW electric motor for the EV variant, up from 170kW.I
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Nissan considering new Ford Everest SUV rival with plug-in hybrid power
via drive.com.auA new plug-in hybrid ute from Nissan – developed and built in China – could spawn an SUV sibling.The first plug-in hybrid (PHEV) with a Nissan badge could spawn a left-field SUV sibling aimed at the Ford Everest, Isuzu MU-X and other popular ute-derived 4WDs.It is an idea floated by an engineer working on the Nissan Frontier Pro, a new 320kW plug-in dual-cab developed in China, for China, but poised for export markets that may grow to include Australia.“Of course, you can see t
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Polestar 4 buyer’s guide
via drive.com.auThe Polestar 4 won the Best Luxury Car under $100K in this year’s Drive Car of the Year awards. Here’s everything you need to know about this refined electric car.The Polestar 4 was crowned the Best Luxury Car under $100K for its ultra modernist Scandinavian styling, which, paired with up to 400kW of electric propulsion, doesn’t so much put the Polestar 4 on the map as redefines what borders look like. The Polestar 4 is a new addition for the brand, wit
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I hated those big ‘Yank Tanks’ until I drove one
via drive.com.auI once fell victim to the movement against the full-sized American ute, and all it took was for me to drive a Ram 1500 to change my mind.Full-sized American utes, Yank Tanks, pick-up trucks, or whatever you want to call them, are a hot topic in Australia.Just like whenever anything new hits the market, people don’t like a change from how it’s been done for decades. When people showed concern for these giant pick-ups being sold in Australia, I sympathised with them.RELATED: Why we wil
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Nissan R36 GT-R and next-gen Honda NSX could share platforms
via drive.com.auMerger talks between Nissan and Honda have ceased, but that doesn’t mean the two companies aren’t collaborating. And the end products could be special.Honda’s plans for a merger with Nissan have been canned, but the two companies could still collaborate on their next-generation supercars.Although a formal tie-up between the two companies is no longer in the works, suggestions that Honda and Nissan could lean on one another for the development of the next-generation NSX and GT-R
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2025 Honda Civic Type R to gain blue colour in Australia, red deleted
via drive.com.auThe Honda Civic Type R hot hatch will become available to order in blue for the Australian market from next week, while its Rally Red option has been removed.Blue will return to the Honda Civic Type R hot hatch in Australia after a four-year absence, the brand has confirmed.For the first time since the previous-generation Honda Civic Type R departed local showrooms in 2021, the performance model will soon be available to order in the Racing Blue pearlescent finish, joining the existing white, gr
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Opinion: Performance cars have never been so unattainable
via drive.com.auAustralian new-car buyers are getting a raw deal on cheap performance cars as sporty models become increasingly expensive.If you were anything like me after first getting my driver’s licence, getting behind the wheel of something sporty, as quickly as possible, was the number-one goal.Undoubtedly, this self-imposed ideal would have had plenty to do with all the Gran Turismo I played growing up, but acquiring a performance car was of key importance right from the get-go.I ended up in a BMW
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‘Tell this girl no’: Jojo Siwa’s custom car collection shows you can take mods too far
via drive.com.auIf money isn’t an option and you want a way to separate your luxury car from others, just ask Jojo Siwa for advice on how to stand out.
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If you’ve been scrolling on social media the past couple of days, you might have heard the name Jojo Siwa coming from a range of content creators and media outlets.The former child star turned musician has been in the mainstream spotlight for over a decade, standing out in the hit reality US TV show Da
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XPeng to take on Tesla with its own charging network in Australia
via drive.com.auMore ultra-fast charging electric vehicle stations are coming to Australia, with XPeng to bring its own units Down Under later this year.Chinese marque XPeng will begin rolling out its brand of electric car chargers later this year in Australia, as well as other parts of the world, in a bid for greater market visibility.Exact locations and the number of chargers is still unknown, but according to slides presented to media at the XPeng Global Brand Night, the brand’s ultra-fast chargers wil
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Porsche announces collaboration with leading boutique coffee brand
via drive.com.auAutomotive cross-brand promotions don’t get any smoother, richer and caffeinated than this, as Porsche joins forces with St Ali coffee.Footware, jewellery, and even perfume brands have seen their fair share of automotive marketing crossovers, but now Porsche has aligned with Melbourne-based boutique coffee roasting brand, St Ali, to create perhaps the most obvious automotive blend – literal cars and coffee.The collaboration has produced a coffee bean product that combines three diffe
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How to get the most from selling your car
via drive.com.auThere’s a fine art to getting the most for your car on the used market, so here’s what you should keep in mind.The used car market is still alive and well in Australia. The latest used-car data from the Australian Automotive Dealer Association shows that there are 327,000 active used car listings in Australia, and half of those are for private vehicles.RELATED: Is it really better to buy a car with low kilometres?For dealers, listing a car and converting it into a sale is easy; it&rs
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2025 LDV Deliver 7 review
via drive.com.auThe electric LDV eDeliver 7 is already on sale in Australia, and roughly 12 months later, the diesel version joined the range on Australian streets. Trent Nikolic tests a commercial van that positions itself in a competitive segment but with a clear focus on value for money.Skip ahead:IntroductionRunning costsPrice and specificationEnergy useInterior space and comfortOn-road assessmentConnectivity and infotainmentSummarySafety Next steps
2025 LDV Deliver 7 SWBIt’s easy to forget that the v
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Should Australia introduce driver training in high schools?
via drive.com.auDriver training is a mandatory part of getting your licence in Australia, but is it time to introduce it to the high school curriculum?
When you’re a teenager, learning how to drive a car for the first time is a rite of passage that can seem intimidating, more so when you’re sharing the roads with drivers of all ages and experience.While it’s mandatory to accumulate at least 50 hours of supervised driving, depending on where you live, before going for your P-plate test, some le
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2025 MG 3 Vibe on sale now as Australia’s cheapest new automatic car, alongside safety upgrades
via drive.com.auA new base-model MG 3 has arrived from $21,990 drive-away, fitted with safety upgrades – including more airbags – that are, for now, not on any other variant in the range.The price of the cheapest 2025 MG 3 city hatch has dropped below $22,000 with a new entry-level Vibe model, arriving in showrooms now.And it coincides with the arrival of safety upgrades for the MG 3 – following a three-star ANCAP rating handed out last year – which, for now, only apply to the new base m
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Tesla denies claims it wants to replace CEO Elon Musk
via drive.com.auTesla chair Robyn Denholm says media reports the electric-car brand wants to find a new CEO to replace Elon Musk are “absolutely false”.Tesla has denied media reports its board of directors have begun searching for a new CEO to replace Elon Musk.On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported the Tesla board – headed by Australian executive Robyn Denholm – had contacted executive search firms to start looking for its next chief executive officer, a role held by Elon Musk si
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Chevrolet Silverado V8 engine recall expands to Australia and NZ, 10,000 pick-ups affected locally
via drive.com.auA global recall of 721,000 potentially defective General Motors 6.2-litre ‘L87’ petrol V8 engines is now confirmed to include about 10,000 Chevrolet pick-ups in Australia and New Zealand.About 10,000 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 pick-ups sold in Australia and New Zealand have been recalled due to manufacturing defects that could cause their 6.2-litre petrol V8 ‘L87’ engines to fail.It forms part of a global recall affecting 721,000 vehicles worldwide, across a broader range o
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2025 XPeng G6 Standard Range review
via drive.com.auAussies now have a broad array of choice in buying an affordable electric vehicle. But it seems like XPeng has jumped to the top of the consideration list with its first-ever model.Skip ahead:IntroductionRunning costsPrice and specificationEnergy useInterior space and comfortOn-road assessmentConnectivity and infotainmentSummarySafety Next steps
2025 XPeng G6 Standard RangeYou’re not alone in your confusion over the sheer volume of new electric vehicles arriving on the Australian market. I
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GWM is developing a supercar ‘better’ than Ferrari
via drive.com.auIf plans for a new V8 weren’t crazy enough, GWM has revealed it has been working on a supercar for the past five years – but don’t expect the two projects to unite.GWM has announced plans to develop a supercar it claims will be “better” than a million-dollar Ferrari SF90 – and unlike rival BYD’s efforts, it may not be electric.But it is unlikely to use the company’s new 4.0-litre twin-turbo hybrid V8, and could opt for a smaller engine – or s
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2026 Honda CR-V gains rugged TrailSport hybrid and Google infotainment tech, Australian plans unclear
via drive.com.auThe sixth-generation Honda CR-V has received its first update in the US – three years after its debut – with a TrailSport off-road hybrid grade and Google infotainment tech.An update for the 2026 Honda CR-V has been announced for the United States, but it’s yet to be confirmed for Australia.New for Honda’s family SUV – and best-selling model globally – is a TrailSport hybrid grade with off-road-ready enhancements, along with Google infotainment technology firs
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Omoda 3 SUV revealed with styling that makes a Lamborghini look tame
via drive.com.auA wildly-styled rival to the Kia EV4 and MG4 SUVs could be the first ‘Omoda’-branded SUV from Chery in Australian showrooms after its global on-sale in 2026.
Source: Motor1
The Chery Omoda 3 has been unveiled with a dramatically styled Kia EV4 and MG4 rival likely to spearhead Omoda’s unique identity as a stand-alone brand.Chery previously confirmed plans for Omoda to be spun-off as a unique brand and sold in showrooms – separate to Chery – alongside Jaecoo, which w
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MG to double down on sports cars, starting with Cyberster coupe
via drive.com.auSports cars are doomed? Not according to MG, which is plotting more models to follow the Cyberster roadster and an inbound coupe version.The Cyberster will not be the only sports car in MG showrooms, thanks to a new range of electric ‘Cyber’ models styled by the designer behind the Bugatti Veyron.First to launch is set to be a coupe version of the Cyberster drop-top – confirmed for next year – which will be closely related to the Cyber GTS concept shown at last year&rsquo
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The best OEM wheels of all time
via drive.com.auWheels are usually the first things you change when you modify your car, but you wouldn’t need to with these models. These are the best OEM wheels of all time.When it comes to vehicle modification, wheels are frequently at the top of any car enthusiast’s to-do list.RELATED: How to fix gutter rashWhether you want to be individual or just don’t like the OEM’s standard wheel design, changing them on your car is simple and easy. The saying “you can tell a lot about some
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Volkswagen Amarok undercuts Ford Ranger, Toyota HiLux in the lead-up to end of financial year
via drive.com.auVolkswagen has slashed the price on select variants in the Amarok ute range by up to $9000 as the company prepares to boost sales before the end of the financial year.Volkswagen Australia has announced discounted drive-away pricing deals on entry-grade and flagship models of the Amarok 4×4 ute range, in an end-of-financial-year offer set to run throughout May and June.Offered on the entry-level Amarok Core, and the two top models in the range, the Amarok Panamericana and Amarok Aventura, t
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