Love your Land Rover Defenders? Can’t get enough of them and just want to absorb every piece of information about them? Well, you might be interested to hear Land Rover is announcing the bible of Land Rover books, called Icon: The Official Story of the Series Land Rover and Defender. […]
Year: 2017
Range Rover Velar V8 ‘SVR’ spotted belting around Nurburgring (video)
Here we have it, folks. Visual and audible confirmation that there will be a V8 version of the attractive new Range Rover Velar at some stage. This spy video shows a prototype gunning around the Nurburgring in Germany, belting out an unmistakable V8 soundtrack. It’s expected to be the sounds […]
Mitsubishi celebrates 100 years, gives first Model A a PHEV conversion
Mitsubishi Motors is celebrating its centenary, with its first series production car of Japan, the Model A, turning 100. To mark the occasion, the Japanese company has teamed up with a very unlikely partner; West Coast Customs. As a lot of you would remember, WCC sprung into the public consciousness […]
Ford developing next-gen C-segment global platform, underpin 2020 Focus
According to Automobile Mag, Ford is readying its next generation platform for future C-segment vehicles, including the next Focus, Escape and C-Max equivalents. Ford of Europe’s vice president of quality, Gunnar Hermann, assures that this upcoming platform will be the last conventional components set and will start becoming available on […]
Next Isuzu D-Max & Mazda BT-50 share powertrains, different bodies
Details of the utes that will succeed the Mazda BT-50 and Isuzu D-Max in around two years have emerged at an Isuzu launch event this week. Many engineers and senior Isuzu staff were on hand to field questions at the Australian launch of the MY17 MU-X, and PerformanceDrive managed to […]
2017 Isuzu MU-X review – Australian launch
Isuzu has been going from strength to strength in Australia in terms of sales, since the 2008 introduction of the D-Max ute and 2013 debut of the MU-X SUV. Since then, the company has enjoyed year on year growth and over 100,000 sales. Volume is slightly down compared with 2016 […]
Top 10 Australian utes you probably didn’t know about
The coupe-utility was invented in Australia in the 1930s and often replicated the world over. With our Aussie-made utes on the chopping block this year, it’s hard to imagine we once had such a rich, diverse and colourful array of car manufacturers building cars here. With the influx of British, […]
Boxing champ Anthony Joshua gets Range Rover SVAutobiography
The world’s newest MMA boxing world champion, Anthony Joshua, of England, has taken ownership of a very special Range Rover with unique SVO enhancements. Fresh from his victory against Wladimir Klitschko on April 29, Joshua is kicking back in his Range Rover SVAutobiography Dynamic with World Champion Graphite paint, diamond-quilted […]