The Australian new‑vehicle market reached a record 1,241,037 deliveries in 2025, but the headline number only tells a small part of the story. Across the last 11 years, total market growth has been modest – up 85,629 units or 7.4 per cent compared with 2015. The real change has happened inside the total, as demand has shifted away from traditional passenger…

As the rest of the automotive industry has been phasing out eight-cylinder engines, China’s GWM has been doing the opposite. Now, it is considering utilising its unusual horizontally opposed eight-cylinder engine in its cars. GWM originally unveiled a 2.0-litre flat-eight engine at the 2024 Beijing motor show in 2024, and followed it up with a…

A total of 380,350 cars, SUVs and light commercial vehicles were recalled in Australia in 2025, with customers forced to visit the service department to fix myriad mechanical and software faults. The 136 nationwide product safety recall notices issued last year ran the gamut from the tame (incorrect compliance labels in the Ford Mustang…

Bentley is a brand known for producing truly special cars, and this – the Flying Spur sedan – is the most exclusive of them all. Starting from just under $500,000, the Flying Spur is the most expensive Bentley you can buy right now, at least in base specification. It’s also the rarest on Australian roads…

Ford says it will be “deomcratising autonomy” when it launches an eyes-off-the-road autonomous driving system in 2028 in one of its most affordable vehicles, a new electric ute tipped to be christened Ranchero. Doug Field, Ford’s Chief EV, Digital and Design Officer, made the announcement at this CES in Las Vegas. He said Ford’s Level…

Hybrid vehicle sales in Australia increased by 15.3 per cent year-on-year in 2025, with a total of 199,133 reaching customers. That was slightly higher growth than posted by electric vehicles (up 13.1 per cent to 103,269 units) but not as steep as the growth of plug-in hybrid sales (up 130.9 per cent to 53,484 units).…

The Volkswagen Touareg R plug-in hybrid (PHEV) performance SUV is being recalled as a battery defect poses the risk of a fire. “Due to a manufacturing issue, the cell modules installed in the high voltage battery may be defective and overheat during charging. If this occurs, it could lead to a vehicle fire,” the company…

Australia’s most popular SUV in 2025 was also the country’s best-selling rental car, while an oft-overlooked small hatchback was among the models with the highest percentage of rental sales. Rental fleets purchased 71,105 new vehicles in Australia during 2025, according to the VFACTS annual sales report published by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), including heavy…

Chinese brand Omoda Jaecoo will branch out into the seven-seat SUV market this year by introducing a three-row, plug-in hybrid (PHEV) version of the recently launched Jaecoo J8. Up until now, Omoda Jaecoo has only sold SUVs with two rows of seating – the Jaecoo J7 and J8 and Omoda 9 – but that will…

The Toyota GR Yaris Morizo RR has been shown at the Tokyo Auto Salon, with the special edition featuring several performance and visual upgrades. Toyota says the GR Yaris Morizo RR was created using lessons learned from the 2025 Nürburgring 24 Hours race in Germany, with an “exclusive suspension setting” created for the hot hatch.…