The successor to the Volkswagen Passat CC (later called CC) four-door coupe has been depicted in a sketch released by the company today. The CC name is gone, replaced by ‘Arteon’, which is the production follow-up to the Sport Coupe Concept shown at last year’s Geneva Motor Show. The same […]
Day: 28 November 2016
Kia Australia could enter V8 Supercars racing series
Kia is believed to be in negotiations with at least one team to enter the future Virgin Australia Supercar Championship (to replace current V8 Supercars), with its entrant likely based on a rear-wheel drive ‘four-door coupe’ set to arrive in Australia next year. Based on the same platform as the […]
LEGO Land Rover Discovery 3 is perfect
If, like us, you’ve always thought the blocky Land Rover Discovery 3 has a distinctive bricky look about it like it’s been assembled from bricks like Duplo or LEGO, then you won’t be surprised to see someone has made their own on LEGO Ideas. PerformanceDrive is almost as enthusiastic about […]
HSV ‘GTS-R Maloo’ to send off ute, LS9 power – rumour
As part of its final run of GEN-F based vehicles which farewell the Australian-built range, Holden Special Vehicles is purportedly also planning an LS9-powered version of the Maloo ute, utilising the same circa-485kW/820Nm powertrain as the rumoured GTS-R and GTS-R W1 special editions. If true, this would make it the […]
Holden Commodore SV6 production ends for manual transmission
After the axe fell on the Cruze small car last month and the last HSV Grange rolled out of Clayton a few weeks ago, the latest casualty in the lead up to Holden’s local plant closure is believed to be the manual transmission SV6 Commodore and Ute. As local production […]