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2. 2024 Toyota Prado likely to climb $10K! Japanese market start price points to circa-$70K pricing for base model of Ford Everest and Nissan Patrol rival

3. More details of the 2025 Toyota Prado revealed: Tough new 4WD prepares to battle Ford Everest and Isuzu MU-X

4. The Nissan Micra is making a comeback: Little hatchback to be reborn as electric car to rival the Volkswagen ID.2, MG4 and BYD Dolphin.

5. Carmakers turned bigger profits last year, but who was the winner? Most and least profitable car companies including GWM, Toyota and Ferrari revealed - report

6. The future of electric cars revealed: New Chinese car is the first to use "solid state batteries" to trump Toyota, BYD and Tesla

7. Price cut for premium electric car: Genesis slashes the cost of its GV60 electric car rival to Mercedes-Benz EQC and electric Porsche Macan

8. Honda slashes drive-away pricing of 2024 HR-V range while lopping a little off the top of lower level ZR-V and CR-V grades

9. Is this China's new Toyota RAV4 fighter? Haval's latest answer to the Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage prepares for battle

10. Attention Toyota LandCruiser and Nissan Patrol buyers: The latest on the missing GWM Tank 500 diesel, PHEV plug-in hybrid and twin-turbo V6 for Australia and NZ

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Kevin is the Motoring Editor for The Daily Telegraph, Sydney

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It was a singular talent at picking some of the most perverse, impractical and thoroughly loveable cars driven mostly by a lack of budget and an immediate need for wheels which set Kevin Hepworth on a path that would ultimately lead to a role in motoring journalism.

Learn on an EH station wagon, buy a 1962 Beetle, progress to an Austin 1800 and then fall madly in love with a 1968 MGB. Add a Triumph 2000 Mk I before a Mazda Capella, a Nissan Stanza (still ashamed of that one), another MGB (1972 this time) then a 404 Wagon, a Holden Sunbird (even more ashamed), EL Falcon and Pajero.

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Kevin Hepworth is a former CarsGuide contributor via News Limited. An automotive expert with decades of experience, Hepworth is now acting as a senior automotive PR operative.

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1. Toyota's $50k off-road bargain! New Toyota LandCruiser FJ to be half the price of an LC300 and way cheaper than a Prado: Reports

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3. More details of the 2025 Toyota Prado revealed: Tough new 4WD prepares to battle Ford Everest and Isuzu MU-X

4. The Nissan Micra is making a comeback: Little hatchback to be reborn as electric car to rival the Volkswagen ID.2, MG4 and BYD Dolphin.

5. Carmakers turned bigger profits last year, but who was the winner? Most and least profitable car companies including GWM, Toyota and Ferrari revealed - report

6. The future of electric cars revealed: New Chinese car is the first to use "solid state batteries" to trump Toyota, BYD and Tesla

7. Price cut for premium electric car: Genesis slashes the cost of its GV60 electric car rival to Mercedes-Benz EQC and electric Porsche Macan

8. Honda slashes drive-away pricing of 2024 HR-V range while lopping a little off the top of lower level ZR-V and CR-V grades

9. Is this China's new Toyota RAV4 fighter? Haval's latest answer to the Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage prepares for battle

10. Attention Toyota LandCruiser and Nissan Patrol buyers: The latest on the missing GWM Tank 500 diesel, PHEV plug-in hybrid and twin-turbo V6 for Australia and NZ

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