Porsche has announced it’s ready to take orders for its hyper car with a green tinge, the stunning 918 Spyder hybrid—shown above in this new sketch. The asking price, in Europe, is a cool €645,000, plus taxes. First deliveries are due in late 2013. Limited to 918 examples, all expected to be southpaws, it’s unlikely [...]

UPDATE 4 May: The premiere has been pushed back until 11 August. Advance screenings are planned for Melbourne and Sydney. Today is Ayrton Senna’s 51st birthday. It seems fitting, then, that Manish Pandey brings word on the Australian cinema release of Senna, which is scheduled for 21 July. The film will be distributed by Universal [...]

If you can’t wait for this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix then you can help pass the time by downloading the official iPhone/iPad app. Well, assuming you have succumbed to the clutches of the Apple corporate beast. After downloading the app last night and giving it a good test run it looks like it should be [...]

Mercedes-Benz completes its hotted up C-Class range with the C63 AMG coupé. Here at AUSmotive we’d still take the C63 AMG estate on pure cool factor, but, having never really been fans of the C-Class coupé, this new AMG version is starting to influence our position. The detail is much the same as the saloon [...]

Red Bull Racing, and most other F1 teams, do public promotion events all over the globe. The idea is simple, take a Formula One car out of its natural habitat, the racetrack, and bring F1 to the people. It’s about promotion mostly, but it’s also about breaking away from the shackles of everyday life. Most [...]

First filed 20 February. A couple of weeks ago the FIA released an updated calendar for the 2011 Formula One season incorporating starting times for each race. You can check out the full list after the break. Obviously, doubts remain over the running of the Bahrain Grand Prix; could Melbourne see the opening race of [...]

Yesterday’s “Red Bull Run” across Melbourne’s Bolte Bridge came and went without much fanfare. Victoria’s over officious authorities ensured Mark Webber was unable to exceed the signposted speed limits for his short journey, despite closing all six lanes of traffic. Webber only had to think of Lewis Hamilton’s troubles in Melbourne last year to know [...]

BMW Motorsport has followed up the launch of the 1 Series M Coupé MotoGP Safety Car with a new press release and 40 studio images. The engine and drivetrain from the 1M production car remain unchanged for the MotoGP Safety Car spec. However, a specially designed CFRP bonnet with large air vents, polycarbonate windows and [...]

Audi Australia has just launched the A7 Sportback down under. There’s two models on offer, both using V6 engines. The 180kW 3.0 TDI quattro is priced from $142,750, while the 220kW 3.0 TFSI quattro starts at $147,800. Despite the size of the A7 Sportback—4969mm long and 1911mm wide—it’s strictly a four-seater. Although, looking at the [...]

The TeamVodafone V8 Supercar website has confirmed the planned promo event at Mount Panorama, Bathurst is all set to go ahead next Tuesday, 22 March. The event will start at 11am and features five time Bathurst winner Craig Lowndes and 2009 Formula One World Champion Jenson Button. Both men will drive their own car around [...]

After the break you can watch a new-ish spy video of the next-gen Porsche 911. The footage runs for 8 minutes, but you can probably get by just watching the first half. Firstly, it’s not terribly exciting, but mostly because the material is repeated. Perhaps the greatest thrills from the footage, which seem to be [...]

Is this love that I’m feeling Is this the love that I’ve been searching for… No, it’s not that sort of soft metal. However, a number of Audi workers do find themselves feeling the love for soft metal in this latest ad for the company’s new A6. It’s all done to promote the car’s “Aluminium [...]

Ross Brawn, Mercedes GP boss and one of the men behind the revolutionary blown double diffusers, says the forward exit exhaust found on the Lotus Renault GP R31 is a “clever idea”. Blown Double diffusers have now been banned, but their concept was relatively simple; direct the flow of the exhaust gasses inside the rear [...]

A while back there was a minor scare that the F10-based BMW M5 would be made with an auto transmission only. Recent info suggests that won’t be the case and a 7-speed dual clutch transmission will be used instead. A theory supported by these latest spy shots. That won’t appease slaves to self-shifters completely, but [...]

Last month BMW officially launched its “i” brand and since then development prototypes of the electric powered i3 and i8 have been seen around the place. After the break you can see the first vdeo of the little i3 in action. The footage was filmed in Sweden and shows the car pirouetting around the place [...]