6 January 2021 by Justin Hilliard
While we don’t exactly need to point out the increasing popularity of SUVs, it is important to note they’re simultaneously growing and shrinking in size to accommodate all areas of the market. Enter Toyota’s smallest one yet, the aptly named Yaris Cross . Yep, the Yaris Cross is Toyota’s first...Read more
5 January 2021 by Peter Anderson
There is nothing quite like a car company occasionally building a car that could be considered a risk. And there are all kinds of risks in the car business - the market isn't ready for that car, people don't identify your brand with this or that type of vehicle, the list goes on. And it's long. It'...Read more
2 January 2021 by Matt Campbell
You’ve probably ended up here by searching “best dash cam 2021” or “dash camera Australia”, and there’s a good chance you’ve done that because you’ve been on YouTube watching dash cam Australia videos. This affordable add-on technology is becoming more and more relevant to road users in Australia...Read more
30 December 2020 by Byron Mathioudakis
Spot quiz: What’s the world’s best-selling small SUV? If the answer – Honda’s HR-V – wasn’t what you were thinking, then please consider this. Smart design, peerless packaging, a strong engineering ethos and keen pricing have helped the Thai-built, Jazz supermini-based crossover stay popular, even...Read more
25 December 2020 by Tom White
We live in a tumultuous time for the internal combustion engine. Automakers around the world are struggling to keep up, with the pressure on in many markets to hybridise to keep up with not just regulations, but now, demand. Japanese automakers are at the thick of it. Toyota has spent 20 years...Read more
23 December 2020 by Andrew Chesterton
On paper, the Mazda CX-30 should be the perfect SUV for city life. Larger than the bite-sized CX-3 , yet not so hulking as the CX-5 , and a stylish and svelte looking vehicle to boot. But paper often lives a long way from reality, so our resident urbanite Chesto is putting the CX-30 to the long-...Read more
16 December 2020 by Peter Anderson
Twitter is full of people with bad opinions about everything and anything. Some people in the CarsGuide office say that this particular medium is perfect for me and laugh. I have no idea what that means. Some things are meant to stay a mystery, I suppose. Anyway, one of the bad opinions I see on...Read more
9 December 2020 by Tom White
The city-sized light car segment is becoming increasingly tightly contested in Australia – with fewer options and the pressure on to provide high spec levels and safety at a reasonable price. Once strong nameplates simply haven’t been able to keep up, with popular contenders in the form of the...Read more
7 December 2020 by Peter Anderson
The Honda Civic's 10th generation is drawing to an end. Well, I say that, but there's still a pretty solid chance that the 11th generation won't quite be here this time next year. I make the point because we've already seen a "prototype" for series 11 of the Honda Civic Story , but also because we...Read more
7 December 2020 by Byron Mathioudakis
The Swift is a silent assassin. Since its launch in 2017, the fifth Suzuki supermini to boast the badge in Australia has been left standing tall, while several storied nameplates – including Holden Barina (which was once a Swift twin), Hyundai Accent , Ford Fiesta , Renault Clio , Peugeot 208 and...Read more
4 December 2020 by Peter Anderson
You can almost trace Toyota's renaissance back to a single day – the day the C-HR was revealed to the world as a production car. The company could have gotten away with jacking up a Yaris and calling it a compact SUV, but instead they went all out with a bolt-from-the-blue looker with some really...Read more
1 December 2020 by Byron Mathioudakis
Like famous 20th Century illusionist Harry Houdini, the all-new and appropriately named Escape isn't all that it seems. Made in Spain, the fourth-gen Escape is really a MK3 Kuga engineered in Germany - not an American, as the Blue Oval badge implies. Though appearing smaller than before, the length...Read more
25 November 2020 by Matt Campbell
This is the 2021 MG ZST - it’s different to the regular MG ZS. It’s really different, in fact. When our very own Tom White drove the new MG ZST 2021 model at the car’s local launch , he found it to be mostly pretty good. It’s easy to see why - it looks great, has heaps of features, and makes a very...Read more
19 November 2020 by Byron Mathioudakis
Few cars have improved as much over their immediate predecessors as Nissan’s Juke. Though a 1.5 million-selling global smash hit, the old F15 original bombed in Australia, languishing as a divisive, cramped, noisy, cheaply presented and yet expensive oddball alternative to the Mazda CX-3 and Honda...Read more
10 November 2020 by Byron Mathioudakis
Is the Volkswagen T-Roc a Golf in drag? That’s a compliment, given the charisma, nerve, uniqueness and talent that such a transformation implies. More importantly, does T-Roc deserve to carry the Golf -of-crossovers tiara? Sat below the related Tiguan but above the Polo-derived T-Cross, the...Read more
30 October 2020 by Tom White
It’s dark times in the world of small hatchbacks. Once a strong segment in Australia’s market, safety, emissions, and logistics challenges have driven the price up on stalwart favourites (like the Toyota Yaris ) and pushed many nameplates (like the Honda Jazz ) out of Australia altogether. So in...Read more
27 October 2020 by Richard Berry
Is the Mercedes-Benz GLA 250 4Matic a good urban car? Seems like it should be. After all, besides being a small SUV from a luxury brand, the German five-seater crossover is also the latest incarnation of the GLA – the second-generation version that only arrived in 2020. Well, my little family and I...Read more
23 October 2020 by Richard Berry
The Citroen C3 is a little hatchback like the Kia Rio, Mazda 2 or the Suzuki Swift but it’s different to them, which is why you’re here, I think. The C3 is different , not in a technological or engineering sense, but in the style stakes. It’s a premium and quirky French take on the tiny-car-thing...Read more
22 October 2020 by Tom White
The Toyota Yaris is one of those cars which, alongside many other Toyotas, has gradually become an icon of Australia’s motoring landscape. Toyota says it has sold more than 250,000 of them Down Under. But in an era where profitably selling small cars in Australia is an increasingly difficult...Read more
8 October 2020 by Richard Berry
Don’t let people talk you into buying a tiny car just because you live in the city. That’s what I’ve learnt from being a car reviewer and living about eight kilometres from the CBD. Yes, car spaces are small, or almost non existent, but the people that live there are as full-sized as people...Read more