We received an email on Wednesday confirming the media day for the 2012 Australian International Motor Show, to be held in Sydney this year, will go for a full day. That’ll be on Thursday 18 October and gives the manufacturers more time to impress hacks like us. More importantly, the motor show won’t open to [...]

If you reckon the Polo GTI needs a little more spice Seat is here to help. They’ve just taken the covers off their Ibiza Cupra Concept in Beijing and it looks pretty much ready to roll off the production line to us. We have already discovered the Pogo is a damn good package. The Polo [...]

This we like. A lot. It’s the Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupé, remember we had an unauthorised preview last week. Now the sleek four door “coupé” is strutting its stuff on the show floor in Beijing. Gorden Wagener, Head of Design at Mercedes-Benz, says the Concept Style Coupé perfectly represents their new design direction. “Its breathtaking [...]

The Auto China 2012 motor show is currently under way in Beijing, and while it doesn’t yet have the cachet of a Geneva, Paris or Frankfurt it may well only be a matter of time. But what is the scene really like in China? Are they still making shameless knock-offs of well known models? Or [...]

Here’s the second and final part of our 2012 Geneva Motor Show photo gallery, featuring manufacturers from L–Z (well V actually). Highlights include the Aventador J pictured above along with a reappearance of the stylish Mazda Takeri concept. The awesome Pagani Huayra is also on show, check the raw carbon fibre model, it looks sublime. [...]

After a couple of days for press previews the doors to the 2012 Geneva Motor Show are about to be opened to the public. Figuring you probably can’t make it we’re bringing you our biggest photo gallery ever. That’s right, there’ll be over 200 images from the floor of Geneva for you to enjoy. We’ve [...]

Back in January Porsche revealed the first official photos and information on its all-new Boxster. However, Porsche had always planned to wait until the Geneva Motor Show for the roadster to make its public debut. There’s no new press material, so we’ve repeated the text from January for you after the break. There are a [...]

Given our coverage of the Geneva Motor Show so far you could be forgiven for thinking it’s little more than a hot hatch playground. But we’re here to show you how the other half live. Actually, it’s probably more like half of the other half. If that; you get the point. Which brings us to [...]

Vauxhall has just announced details of its aggressive new Astra VXR. In coupé form they have stated clearly they want the VXR to tackle the Volkswagen Scirocco R and Renault Megane RS 250 head on. Making a good start in that battle is the VXR’s 2.0 litre turbocharged engine which produces 280PS (206kW) and 400Nm. [...]

Have you ever thought you couldn’t buy a Volkswagen Amarok because it didn’t suit your freestyle kayaking lifestyle? If you said yes, then you’re in luck, because VW has come up with a concept model just for you. Dr Wolfgang Schreiber, Head of Development at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, explains, “We are using this extreme concept [...]

Here at AUSmotive we’ve never really understood why manufacturers indulge their customers by releasing chop-top versions of performance models. With the Golf GTI Cabriolet at least there is some old skool heritage there from on the Mk1 GTI Cabriolet. The same questions apply to the numerous iterations of BMW M3 convertible and, equally, the B7 [...]

Phwoar, that’s pretty sexy, don’t you think. It’s the Inifiniti Emerg-E concept and it’s been made to help put the fancy-Nissan product on the map as it extends into new markets. Well, a 300kW sports car with seductive flowing lines and a 0-60mph time of 4.0 seconds is a pretty good place to start. True, [...]

Here is the “new” Volkswagen Cross Coupé. If you think you’ve seen something like this before, well, you have, last December. Back then the Cross Coupé on display in Tokyo was a petrol-electric hybrid. But now, VW has ripped out the TSI engine and plonked in a TDI, coupled it to the electric motors and, [...]

Geneva looks like being the place to be for hot hatch lovers this year and this new “production-ready” Ford Fiesta ST is another one to add to the list. It’s not due until 2013 so Ford are being a bit coy with concrete information. We can tell you the Fiesta ST is powered by a [...]

Just when you thought a German hatchback was a bit radical Lamborghini stands up and slaps you in the face with a 700hp dose of reality. This is the Aventador J, “a force of nature on wheels” Lamborghini claim. Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Lamborghini says, “With the Lamborghini Aventador J, we have molded [...]