A new image has emerged showing the front of the new Lexus LF-Ch concept hybrid. This is the car Lexus hopes to eat into the premium hatch market. Think Audi A3 and BMW 1 Series. Hmm, I know it’s hard to judge concept cars sometimes, but that face, well, it’s a bit fussy. It’s not [...]

New images of the Mazda MX-5 Superlight have emerged on the evo website. The Superlight will make its debut at the Frankfurt IAA along with pretty much anything else with wheels. Expect the Mazda PR department to hit the ground running with these in the next day or so. In the meantime check out the [...]

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond spoke with The Times recently and shared his thoughts on the show, discussing, among other things, how the series might end. “We’ve talked about it and said there are a couple of ways to end this,” says Hammond. “One way would be by saying, ‘That’s the end of the show, [...]

News has emerged that Valentino Rossi was in discussions with Ferrari that could have seen him make his Formula One debut at Monza next weekend. According to Rossi himself it was only a combination of bad timing and concerns about a lack of physical preparation that scuppered this dream opportunity. In the build up to [...]

Repco Rally Australia began in earnest yesterday. That’s good news for the people of the Northern Rivers region of NSW right? A World Rally Championship event on your doorstep, doesn’t get any better than that, surely! Not according to the “No Rally” group who forced the cancellation of Special Stage 6 this morning, with reports [...]

Now that we have whet your appetite for Audi R8 production, fancy an electric powered supercar? Well, the rumour doing the rounds is that Audi will be releasing a “e-version” of the R8 at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show. This rumour was given new legs with the recent launch of Audi’s electricity untamed microsite. At [...]

If you’re a bit of a car nerd like me you love any opportunity you can get to see the inner workings of car factories. Here at AUSmotive we given you an inside look at Golf VI and A4 production. Now, it’s the turn of the Audi R8. A short behind the scenes video can [...]

It now seems an eternity ago that Felipe Massa paraded the F60 Ferrari F1 car with such optimism. But, with the injured Massa now ruled out for the rest of 2009, it only seems a few moments ago that Force India boss Dr Vijay Mallya denied F1′s worst kept secret. That is, Giancarlo Fisichella will [...]

Gordon Murray, designer of the legendary McLaren F1, is up to his old tricks again with his new T.25 city car. As shown above, the seating plan for his T.25very closely mimics that of the F1 supercar. Although, early sketch plans of the T.25 show this wasn’t always the case. Now, though, the “iCentre” layout [...]

Electric powered cars—the green and sustainable future of motoring right? Well, that all depends on where the power is sourced to recharge the battery. GoAuto have an interesting article that scrapes the surface of this sometimes heated and controversial subject. In the Australian market can an electric car genuinely claim to be a zero emissions [...]

It might not look like it, but that pic above shows a face full of win. Dopey, startled and goofy it may look, you would want to be doing what he was doing when that image was captured. So, just what was Autocar journo Steve Sutcliffe doing at the time? He was at the wheel [...]

Word on the street is that private buyers are starting to buy more cars. Sales data from VFACTS reports 73,287 vehicles drove out the door in August, a drop of 5.2% (4,036 vehicles) from the same month last year. August sales are also down 2,046 vehicles on July 2009. Despite the comparative fall, sales in [...]

Mikey might have a sore neck, but he still found the time to jump in the solarium to prepare for his little chat about the Ferrari 458 Italia.

Here’s a brief promo clip of the Porsche 911 Sport Classic. Sounds nice, too, in a Porschey kind of way.

It’s not very often that the hero photo shows the rear of a car, but for this model, the Porsche 911 Sport Classic, it is the view that best informs what this car is about. The Porsche PR department was a bit light on with pics of beancounters smoking a post-coital cigarette, even though that [...]