Cars

Five quiet years while BMW and Mercedes fought over the loud crowd. Then an RS5 Avant, a new Q7 and an SQ9 landed inside six months.

Five years ago I bought the fast wagon I had always wanted. Today I said goodbye and felt genuinely really flat to see it go.

The Denza Z9S looks like a luxury sedan, but the tri-motor version reportedly puts out up to 1,194 horsepower, numbers that belong to a supercar, not a family car.

Zeekr is inviting Australian customers to drive its upcoming EVs on ice in Queenstown before they reach local showrooms, wrapped in two nights at a five-star resort and a helicopter flight over the Southern Alps.

One engine defined the modern hypercar for more than two decades. It powered the Veyron, the Chiron and some of the fastest cars Bugatti ever built, and now it's officially retired.

Most global carmakers dream of cracking the American market. BYD believes it can become the world's biggest car company without it.

Erling Haaland was spotted in Monaco as a passenger in a Bugatti Chiron. That is only a small glimpse of what might be football's most outrageous garage.

BMW built its reputation on engineering. In China's fast-moving EV market, buyers are increasingly judging luxury cars by their software instead.

Polestar made headlines by removing the rear window. Three years later, it is bringing it back.

BYD's premium Denza brand has unveiled a 1,582-horsepower electric supercar aimed directly at Porsche, Ferrari and McLaren, and the pricing makes clear this is not a budget play.

Mat Armstrong paid $168,000 for a GT3 RS that Porsche itself had refused to repair, on the theory that a great car was still in there somewhere.

Luxury car brands built halo cars to make people dream. In China, those dreams are starting to wear different badges.

A Ferrari owner in China tried to keep the repair bill reasonable after children used his supercar as a playground, until the parents offered only $1,000.

Cupra has added a cheaper Tavascan to Australia, giving its electric SUV a lower entry price without making it look like the budget version.

MG's new MGU9 Black Edition lands in Australia first, tapping into the country's growing appetite for utes that look as good as they work.

Denza's Z9GT is arriving soon in Australia with supercar numbers, grand touring comfort and Daniel Craig helping give the brand a sharper luxury image.

Cadillac's OPTIQ squares up to the Chinese EV mob with real American engineering, a wagon-ish footprint, proper luxury, and a best-in-class sound system.

Range Rover's first EV is coming with more power, more silence and a huge price tag, but JLR is keeping the V8 alive for buyers who still want old-school luxury muscle.

A Texas startup says 5,500 people have reserved its cheap gas-powered truck, which says plenty about how badly buyers miss simple pickups.

Jess Bala ran Cadillac's global product strategy before bringing the brand home. We sat down to talk interiors, EV pricing, and why the VISTIQ keeps turning heads.

From a baby R34-style GT-R to junior Defenders and Mercedes-Maybach-style mini luxury cars, miniature dream machines are becoming serious collector toys.

A 1975 Porsche 911 has been rebuilt as a silent 500hp EV, turning an old air-cooled icon into something faster, cleaner and very different.

Mercedes is giving the G-Wagon a new mission, turning one of the world's favourite luxury SUVs into a mobile anti-drone defender.

FC Barcelona’s training-ground car park looks less like a supercar parade and more like a CUPRA showroom with a few luxury SUVs mixed in.

Ferrari's first EV has divided opinion, but some buyers may be ordering it for the car it could help them get next.

Zeekr's updated baby SUV does 0-100 in 3.7 seconds, wears the best green we've seen on any EV, and undercuts almost everything that makes sense. We ran it for a week.

Audi’s new A6 allroad brings back the rugged luxury wagon with a wider body, proper off-road hardware and a possible Australian return.

Porsche has ruled out a fully electric 911, choosing combustion and hybrid power for the sports car that still defines the brand.

GM has begun rolling Google Gemini into every Cadillac and Corvette with Google built-in across Australia and New Zealand, replacing Google Assistant with proper conversation.

BMW’s electric M3 preview shows a wild new future, but the petrol version is not being killed off just yet.

BYD's explosive growth in Australia has convinced the Chinese giant to develop a model tailored specifically for local buyers.

Ferrari has embraced electric power with the Luce, but Maranello insists one modern car trend still goes too far.

Audi has revived its supercar ambitions with the Nuvolari, a 987HP hybrid coupe carrying serious Lamborghini DNA.

The AKG engineer who built it and the Dolby man who fills it with sound explain how 23 speakers turned the Cadillac VISTIQ into the best stereo I've ever heard.

Three years of free scheduled servicing. If you've been circling the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 or the new GMC Yukon Denali, GM Specialty Vehicles just made it very easy to pull the trigger.

Toyota has stripped weight, removed the rear seats and kept the manual gearbox for the GRMN Corolla, turning its humble hatchback into a limited-run Nürburgring weapon.

Zeekr has reopened limited sales of its 912hp 001 Fifth Anniversary Edition, and the numbers make Europe’s expensive performance EVs look very uncomfortable.

Audi’s boss has not confirmed a new R8, but his praise for Lamborghini’s hybrid V8 makes the comeback feel a lot harder to ignore.

Ferrari’s first fully electric car is fast, expensive and Jony Ive-designed, but the real question is whether buyers still feel the magic when the engine noise is gone.

China’s Maextro S800 is not just a cheaper Rolls-Royce rival. It is proof that luxury in China is being rebuilt around technology, local pride and a very different idea of statu

A very special new arrival in Australia with a lot of upside for new car buyers.

The body style Australia abandoned and Europe nearly killed off is having a full-blown renaissance in the one market nobody saw coming, and James Bond is in on it.

Polestar has teamed up with Oxford researchers to study whether driving excitement can be measured through brain activity, biometrics and behaviour.

GM Specialty Vehicles is back at the Southern Hemisphere's biggest boat show, putting its V8 trucks and SUVs in front of exactly the people who buy them.

BYD’s new Ti7 looks like a Defender rival, but its real trick is giving families the rugged image with seven seats, plug-in hybrid range and serious performance.

Forget the SUV. A station wagon is, in our opinion, the most practical car body style an Australian can buy, and 2026 is the year the wagon stops apologising for itself.

BMW’s first Alpina concept previews a quieter, richer kind of performance, with V8 power, grand touring style, and none of the usual M car shouting.

China was once where Western carmakers went to build cheaper cars, but now it is where they are going to learn how to build better electric ones.