Luxury Reviews

Chevrolet Corvette 2025 review: E-Ray

By Byron Mathioudakis · 07 Jan 2025

When mainstream brands decide to build supercars, magic happens: Ford with the GT40 in the 1960s; Honda's NSX of the '90s and now the Chevrolet C8 Corvette of the 20s. But the E-Ray - the fastest production version in the series' 72 years – ups the ante with hybrid tech, adding extra pace, efficiency and civility to a great American sports car. Wild yet worldly, the C8 E-Ray is something special.

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BMW M135 xDrive 2025 review: snapshot

By Chris Thompson · 09 Dec 2024

The hot hatch in the pair of BMW’s entry-level model, the 1 Series, is the M135 xDrive, which starts at $82,500 before on-road costs.

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BMW 118 2025 review: snapshot

By Chris Thompson · 07 Dec 2024

BMW's entry-level model is the 1 Series, specifically the 118 as it’s now known, which starts from $56,500 before on-road costs.

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BMW 1 Series 2025 review: First Australian drive

By Chris Thompson · 05 Dec 2024

The fourth-generation BMW 1 Series is already here, promising a marked step up in features and fitout. We attended the Australian launch to find out if it delivers.

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Rolls-Royce Ghost 2025 review: International first drive

By Stephen Corby · 03 Dec 2024

Rolls-Royce does not launch its new cars in Birmingham or Leeds or anywhere English and drear, it launches them in places like Provence, where they make sense, and where their owners like to buy houses. Thus it was that the new Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II saw us flying all the way to the south of France to drive through lush beauty. Sigh.

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Bentley Flying Spur 2025 review: Speed - International first drive

By Stephen Corby · 25 Nov 2024

The Bentley Flying Spur Speed is the place where decadent luxury and performance meet. It is a very special and frankly quite unusual car, and a very expensive one, too. We flew to a private race track in Japan to find out what it's like.

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Genesis GV70 2025 review - Australian first drive

By Chris Thompson · 15 Nov 2024

Can a series of updates and a big interior refresh help the GV70 find more fans in a busy mid-size SUV market?

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Audi Q3 2025 review: Sportback S line 40 TFSI quattro

By Emily Agar · 27 Oct 2024

The 2025 Audi Q3 Sportback attempts to spice up the premium end of the small SUV market by offering a design-focused 'coupe' body style, but is it enough for it to go 'tyre to tyre' against its main rival, the new BMW X2?

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Audi SQ8 2025 review

By Emily Agar · 21 Oct 2024

The Audi SQ8 has had a mid-life refresh, but will its tweaks keep it a family favourite?

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Bentley Continental 2025 review: GT Speed - International first drive

By Stephen Corby · 16 Oct 2024

Bentley is waving goodbye to its preferred and powerful 12-cylinder engines forever, and the Continental GT Speed is its first change to show off the new, hybrid V8 set up that will power all its vehicles, in various levels of tune, from now on (aside from its first full BEV, which is coming). It's also given the Continental a very impressive, and extensive, facelift.

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