SPOILER: Following the news that Top Gear have been filming in Romania recently comes a selection of videos from YouTube. If you’d prefer to wait until Series 14 goes to air later this year, then read no further. If you would like a sneak peak at James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson going topless [...]

Volkswagen Australia will be launching the Golf Variant next year. Expected to arrive by March 2010 the car will be marketed here as the Golf Wagon, dropping the usual Variant label used in overseas markets. The front end is, pretty much, all regular Golf. The back end, is all new, of course, and while the [...]

Check this out, this is the coolest! If you think you’ve read that line on AUSmotive before, you have. Audi is now following BMW with a new—and very, very cool—touch screen car configurator. It is BMW Product Navigator meets iPhone, and it looks like it makes buying a new car even more fun! Watch the [...]

Back in July news emerged that BMW Australia would be raising eyebrows with range topping M versions of the X5 and X6. Now, we can tell you that you will need to pony up $172,900 and $179,900 respectively to be all the rage at your local polo field. Personally, I can understand the X5 M, [...]

Anke Koeckler, the new Volkswagen Australia Managing Director, has revealed some of her plans as she settles in to her new role. As well as a raft of new models Koeckler aims to keep Australia’s Volkswagen dealers on their toes. In her previous role Anke Koeckler was responsible for 150 Volkswagen dealerships in northern Germany. [...]

The Top Gear lads have recently been in Romania filming a segment for the upcoming Series 14, due on UK screens later this year. Why Romania? Well, the above picture of the Transfagarasan road probably gives you some idea. It is the highest road in Romania and runs north- south along the Carpathian Mountains. Reportedly, [...]

Here is a delightful old skool television commercial for the Porsche 944 Turbo. No chance of ever seeing an ad like this on our TV screens! For more old skool loving, check out Jalopnik via the link below. [Source: Jalopnik]

The Top Gear lads are at it again trekking across the globe with their live show. Looks like this year you’ll be getting 33% more than last time around with all three presenters (plus The Stig) joining the crew. (Note: Sydney shows are listed as having Jeremy, James and a third presenter yet to be [...]

The big hits keep on coming for the ING Renault F1 team. Yes, that’s right, ING have pulled their sponsorship from the Renault F1 team with immediate effect. The Dutch banking icon was due to end its current sponsorship deal at the end of this season anyway, but in response to the “Crashgate” saga they [...]

In light of the “Crashgate” decision which took Flavio Briatore’s memory of F1 away from him, among other things, Mark Webber says if I can’t have Flav, I don’t want nobody baby. Okay, he didn’t really say that, but in relation to Briatore being stripped of any rights to manage F1 drivers Webber did say [...]

Do you promise not to tell? I’ve heard from a couple of off-the-record sources now that Australia is in line to secure a very limited number of MINI John Cooper Works World Championship 50 models. If the speculation is valid we should see, at a minimum, 5 examples in Australia. Originally the worldwide production run [...]

You may remember news from last month about the Radical SR8LM giving Nissan and all the other wannabes a two finger salute when it set a new lap record for a “road car” at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Now, video of that blistering 6 minute 48 second lap is available for your viewing pleasure. Check out [...]

Documents released by the FIA reveal that a fourth Renault team member knew about “Crashgate” while the plans were being hatched. Previously, it was understood that only team boss Flavio Briatore, Executive Director Pat Symonds and Nelson Piquet Jr knew of the plan to fix the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. The witness testimony from this [...]

Now that the Top Gear is over rumour has been put to bed, there is further good news for fans of the world’s best car show. Series 14 of Top Gear will be broadcast in full HD. That’s 1080 pixel high definition goodness to look forward to. The AUSmotive tip is for a return to [...]

First there was MINI, then Mazda. Now, Porsche is the latest manufacturer to get in on the current Speedster fad, as the above image shows. It is believed the Boxster Speedster will be released in 2010, and you can guess how the “power domes” might look underneath that black camouflage. Follow the link below for [...]