It might be made by a company with a sketchy past, but there’s no doubt the DeLorean Motor Company DMC-12 is one of the most iconic cars of our time – made more famous by the Back to the Future films. Here, we’re lucky enough to sample a mint example […]
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Editorial: Australia needs Ford Transit EcoBoost V6 ambulance
When it comes to emergency response, valuable seconds can literally be the difference between life and death. From the time you call 000 to the time of arrival, there is a battle against time, against traffic and against the odds for paramedics to get to the scene as quickly as […]
Top 10 cars still available overseas with a manual transmission
It’s a well-established fact that for some time now, Australians have been opting for automatic-equipped cars, favouring them over manual versions. So much so that manuals typically account for around 5-10 per cent of sales. It is now at the stage where automakers are deleting the choice altogether for Australians. […]
Top 10 fast Aussie sixes – Part One
The V8-powered muscle cars from Ford, Holden and Chrysler will always be regarded as the outright Aussie-made kings of the road in Australia, but there were a number of six-cylinder performance models produced over the decades. Here we take a look at 10 such cars, and a few more which […]
10 often overlooked American muscle cars
There’s many classic American muscle cars which are well known and highly collectable, commanding big dollars in any condition. These are the high-performance versions of cars such as the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac Firebird, Plymouth ‘Cuda, Dodge Challenger, Pontiac GTO, Dodge Charger and more. These cars were purpose-designed two-door […]
Top 10 boxy US police cars of the 1980s
Have you ever wondered what all those boxy American police sedans were from the 1980s in American movies and television shows? Here we take a closer look at those conservatively-styled box-shaped sedans, which were designed to Serve and Protect, to see exactly what police car fleets consisted of back in […]
Opinion: Should Need for Speed go back to its roots?
The trailer for the newest game in the Need For Speed franchise, Payback, dropped today and it looks pretty epic. This got us thinking about older titles and how there was a time when NFS was the favourite, since it didn’t have Forza and Gran Turismo to compete with. The […]
Top 10 medium cars coming to Australia by 2020
The inexorable march of the SUV appears to be coming at the expense of conventional cars, swallowing up their sales numbers and splintering into ever more fragmented pieces. Large sedans are on the way out, which means medium cars have to sharpen their act or become tractor food. Luckily for […]