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Bentley wants to “create another segment” with its first fully electric vehicle – a luxury SUV due to launch in 2026. Details remain relatively scarce, but chief communications officer Wayne Bruce says the as-yet-unnamed EV will be properly unique and sit at the bottom end of the Bentley price spectrum. “With this first urban luxury […]

Mitsubishi Australia will have a new chief in 2026 as it looks to capitalise on a raft of new models in local showrooms, led by the new ASX small SUV and a more capable Outlander PHEV.  Shunichi Kihara has been confirmed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited (MMAL), effective January […]

BMW might expand its electrified drivetrain options beyond mild hybrids, plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and pure electric vehicles (EVs) to include petrol range-extenders. Sources have told Bloomberg BMW is considering adding a petrol range-extender option to some of its electric vehicles. At present the automaker is only thinking of adding the feature to its larger vehicles […]

In a world where performance brands are obsessed with Nürburgring lap times, Genesis is taking a different approach. It says it simply doesn’t care about the stopwatch. Speaking at the launch of the GV60 Magma, Genesis chief creative officer Luc Donckerwolke took a thinly veiled swipe at German rivals (and potentially even sibling brand Hyundai […]

Drive Against Depression (DAD), an Australian-registered mental health charity, will end its 2025 event calendar with the Brisbane Summer Drive Day on Sunday, December 7. The event will see attendees start at Sunshine Ford at Southport on the Gold Coast, and finish at the Wynnum Ambulance Museum on Brisbane’s southside. A member of the Queensland […]

The new seventh-generation Subaru Outback is coming to Australia in 2026, bringing more brutal styling, slight price rises, and new, more rugged Wilderness variants. Announced yesterday, the five-variant Outback range now starts at $48,990 before on-roads, up $4800 on the outgoing model. Launching Australia with the arrival of the new Outback is Subaru’s previously US-only Wilderness sub-brand, designed […]

The Chrysler brand sells effectively one model, and only in a handful of markets, but it’s poised for a product onslaught that will see a successor to the 300 sedan and a return of high-performance SRT vehicles. Mopar Insiders reports word from Chrysler brand boss Chris Feuell that the return of the Street and Racing […]

It seems like every month another Chinese brand is announced for Australia, offering some permutation of a mid-size SUV or a ute. Now, yet another Chinese brand is throwing its hat into the ring and it plans to tackle a slightly less cluttered part of our extremely cluttered market. The Firefly brand, owned by independent […]

Toyota says the addition of an electric version of its new-generation HiLux – and the announcement a hydrogen fuel-cell electric HiLux has been locked in for 2028 – isn’t simply a play to meet ever tightening emissions regulations.  Order books for the new-generation HiLux will open next month and, from the first quarter of 2026, […]

The Ford Ranger Super Duty has launched in Australia, with engineers from the company’s local arm designing and engineering the vehicle for a wide variety of industries and fleets. But while Ford specifically targeted industries such as mining, forestry, fire management, and agricultural industries, the Ranger Super Duty could find itself being called up for […]