Elon’s Twitter acquisition has shone the spotlight on the kind of guy he is and not everyone is keen. Electric cars are starting to gain a foothold in the Australian automotive market. I regularly appear on ABC Radio Sydney and the talk just ends up being about EVs, which
bmw
BMW’s fun-loving M2 scores more power, more stuff and some added rarity for its final bow as the M2 CS. Four and a half years ago I drove the BMW M2 for the first time. I was dead-set hooked. There is stuff we shot for that video that we
bentley
The big British bruiser has landed with a tightened front end and vastly improved rear, new tech inside and service plans. Still a twin-turbo V8, still big, still fast. The Bentley Bentayga, if I’m being honest with you (as I am always) is not my favourite fast SUV. Partly
You know what I always say – don’t track your own car. Instead, you can track, like, twenty of someone else’s, all in one day. Mercedes fan or not, this is a fun day out. BMW, Audi, Jaguar all do really fun track days, in various forms and for
mazda
Mazda’s evergreen, ever brilliant roadster scores some chassis tweaks for the old fogeys like me who once owned a 1989 NA Clubman. Oh, probably other people too. Mazda’s fourth-generation MX-5, the ND, is such a great car. It brings together all of the good things of every generation,
HS
Putting together this classic British badge and mighty Chinese automotive company SAIC, the MG HS gives the sense that big things are coming. This is the story of a car that is not the best in class. Like its smaller stablemate, the ZS, there is plenty of room for improvement.
SUV
One half of the T-Cross and T-Roc pair, the T-Cross is the German giant’s latest – and late to the party – SUV offering. If you could show Karl Benz what his creation would become, I reckon the small SUV segment must be one of the most surprising things to him.
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A new BMW sports car is always a good thing and when it’s based on the excellent 3 Series and the styling makes people mad, it’s an event. I mean, really, the unhinging over the new nose has been more than a little silly. I mean, that’s
The Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR is the swansong for the Mark 7.5 (and, really, the Mark 7). With Golf R power and a few tweaks. Blimey. I say “hot hatch” and I reckon one person out of three will name the Renaultsport Megane or Ford Focus ST or, more
The 2020 BMW M3 and M4 have landed (after the usual, suspicious leak) with plenty of photos in lairy colours. And stacks of gear and power. Yep, it’s got that nose. And in what is sure to be a staggeringly unpopular opinion, I don’t actually mind it now
We’ve driven the manual and loved it – what does an seven-speed automatic do to Ford’s fabled Focus ST? Watch the Focus ST manual review and read more here. One of my favourite YouTube comments on the Focus ST review was where I spent thirty seconds talking about the
Hyundai’s giant-slaying hot hatch has had a facelift and had some surgery, adding a new optional eight-speed gearbox and more grunt. We’re very, very fond of the i30 N here at The Redline. So fond that we think that it bests the Volkswagen Golf GTI as a driver’
BMW’s flagship sports coupe is an absolute rip-snorter, with a proper sports car lurking underneath the long-legged GT body. The 8 Series is supposed to be the replacement for the 6-Series, but it’s more than that. I reckon it’s more of a reset because both generations of
https://youtu.be/5q3m7_ao3SY You’ve read the on-road review, now find out about what the 2020 Land Rover Defender is like out in the rough, slippery, loose and muddy stuff. I’ll put it out there that I am not a hard-core off-roader. Give me some clear tarmac
Peter Anderson takes the new Land Rover Defender, fresh off the boat, for its first run on Australian roads (and muddy tracks). https://youtu.be/5q3m7_ao3SY You know the old joke. The second album is always the hardest. Land Rover knew that so put off the second Defender for
The new burping hyper hatch from Mercedes, the AMG A45S, is everything the old car was with one extra feature – fun. Now, before you kick off, the old car was fun, but not in the way I like. It was a bit like a mini Nissan GTR. Not the Nismo
Hyundai’s Kona electric SUV lapped the Lausitzring for a sleep-inducing thirty-five hours to cover over 1000km on a single charge. Hyundai doesn’t do things by halves these days. Two pure EVs and a whole new electric brand from having neither of those things two years ago. What’s
You might have caught me scolding BMW for not doing a fast wagon and it seems I’m a powerful man in this town (along with a zillion other people). The next M3 is surely going to be an absolute belter of a machine with the twin-turbo straight-six already seen
The Kia Stinger GT Carbon Edition is, as you might have guessed, a special version of the Korean company’s giant-killing sport sedan. The Stinger is, as you already know, an awesome car. It is also criminally under-bought despite its critical acclaim and general buzz. You can safely ignore those