Beauty comes in the shape of many things. One such example is the Audi A7 Sportback. It’s the latest four-door “coupé” to hit local shores and helps to keep Audi at the vanguard of this current automotive trend. Inside and out the A7 is all class. Audi has done well to keep the production car [...]

Tony Quinn leads Targa Tasmania after Day 1 of the island rally. Negotiating his Nissan GT-R successfully through the opening day the 2009 Targa Tasmania winner holds a narrow three second lead in the modern outright category. In second place is yesterday’s Prologue winner Jason White. Sitting nicely in third, 27 seconds behind the leader, [...]

Jason White signalled his intent for the 2011 Targa Tasmania event by setting the quickest time at today’s Prologue in George Town. The Jason and John White team are the defending champions and also won the rally back in 2005. Their Lamborghini Gallardo was literally and figuratively on fire as the Whites were almost five [...]

Dual world rally champ Walter Röhrl is in Australia for the 2011 Targa Tasmania rally. It’s part of Porsche Cars Australia’s 60th anniversary celebrations. Röhrl is driving the 911 SC he drove in the 1981 San Remo rally, where he almost beat the all-conquering Audi Quattros. It is considered one of the best ever drives [...]

Proceedings for the 20th Targa Tasmania rally began today with the “Day 0″ Prologue event at George Town. Below are a few handy links to help you follow the event: 2011 Results 2011 Course map and leg maps General news AUSmotive is at the rally working as service crew for car #923 Robinson/Neagle (2009 MINI [...]

When details of a new car are leaked to the net you can be sure official material is soon to follow. And BMW has played to the script accordingly by publishing 19 images and a short video of its Concept M5. It might be labelled a “concept” but this is the real deal. Some very [...]

The racing version of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG kicked off its first full season of competition at the Nürburgring last weekend. The SLS AMG GT3 finished third and fourth in the opening round of the 2011 VLN series. Before any car can race, though, it needs to meet strict safety regulations. Prior to the VLN [...]

The E92 M3 ute revealed on April Fool’s Day wasn’t the first M3 ute built by BMW. That honour belongs to the E30 M3 you see in the photo above. That car and many more have been photographed deep inside BMW’s secret M garage by Bimmerporst. The secret stash is like a backup of M [...]

BMW has just given the new F10 M5 an invitation-only preview to a select group of motoring hacks. Of course, BMW imposed an embargo on any info and images from that preview. It goes without saying, then, that images of the concept model have now been leaked. The origin of the images appears to be [...]

Red Bull Racing got in on the act for April Fool’s Day by releasing plans for a new “Red Bull Ring” racing circuit. Shaped like the company’s famous logo, turns one through four are understood to be known as Horner’s Corners. To be fair, Red Bull does own the former A1-Ring in Austria, and it [...]

Andy Wilman, Top Gear’s Executive Producer, has taken the unusual step of publicly responding to Tesla’s legal challenge with an entry on the Top Gear Transmission blog. Importantly, he addresses the allegation that Top Gear had prepared its verdict on the car before filming for their review began. Last week Tesla issued a writ against [...]

Congratulations to Richard Rolfe and the team at Audi Centre Canberra for winning their fourth consecutive trophy at the Audi Mark of Excellence Awards for 2010. The Canberra dealership claimed the Metropolitan Dealer of the Year award for the second time in a row, following wins in the Provincial category in 2007 and 2008. Full [...]

More news from the recent BMW press event held in Munich. This time Autocar brings word of a new M3 CSL that will sit between the regular M3 and the more extreme M3 GTS. It has not been confirmed that the model will be called a CSL, rather outgoing BMW M boss, Dr Kay Segler, [...]

AUSmotive will be returning to Targa Tasmania in 2011. We’ll be forming part of the service crew to support car #923 driven by Andrew Robinson and Dennis Neagle. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Targa Tasmania rally and it’s going to be huge. You can see a full entry list HERE. For an [...]

Following on from our earlier post about the BMW M3 ute here is the full complement of 26 images released by BMW’s marketing department. Each can be viewed as wallpaper-friendly 2000px super images by clicking on the photos below. Yes, it’s an elaborate April Fool’s Day stunt. But the car is real, BMW will register [...]