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The Beach Boys wanted one, Prince sang about a little red one and Luke Skywalker… sorry, Mark Hamill, made Corvette Summer, a movie about one (56 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, by the way).Chevrolet’s Corvette, like the pop culture it’s so firmly embedded in, has been exported from America to the world for decades.But the current, eighth-generation ‘Vette is the first to officially come to Australia and it’s gone seriously supercar with a mid-engine layout superseding the two seater’s traditional front-engine, rear-drive arrangement. [read-more-default-title]New SUV will dwarf the Toyota LandCruiser and Nissan Patrol: 2025 GMC Yukon is a huge petrol V8 family SUV and it's coming to Australia next year as a luxury large 4WD to challenge Lexus LX and Range Rover"I didn't realise it runs like our assembly plants": Global Chevy boss surprised by the depth of Australian Chevrolet Silverado remanufacturing processPetrol power isn't dead yet: The 2025 Cadillac Lyriq is launching in Australia to take on the Mercedes-Benz EQE and Audi Q8 e-tron but one of its global executives has walked back plans to go electric car-only by 2030 - reportIt's been a while since we’ve been behind the wheel, so we jumped at GMSV’s invitation to steer the current line-up - the iconic Stingray, just-released hybrid E-Ray as well as the monstrously rapid Z06. So, stay with us to see if ‘America’s Sports Car’ is your kind of high-performance super muscle machine.

Lotus - it’s one of the most iconic names in the history of automobiles and was once Great Britain’s answer to Ferrari - on the road and the Formula One circuit. But that was a long time ago, in the 1960s and ‘70s. Since then Lotus has been on a rollercoaster ride through various owners who put in various levels of investment, resulting in various degrees of success.But through it all, Lotus has stayed true to the ethos of company founder, Colin Chapman - ‘simplify, then add lightness.’ It’s obviously a playful saying, but it spoke to the core elements of Lotus cars, agility and driving purity.Read more about LotusBeing Chinese owned gives us an electric car advantage said Lotus as it gears up to battle BMW and PorscheOld brand reinvents itself to tackle BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche: How Lotus intends to shake-up the premium electric and performance car marketsTwo-and-a-half-tonne sports cars? 2025 Lotus Emeya 'hyper GT' Australian pricing confirmed, available to order now with first deliveries this year for 675kW electric carLotus rarely worried about big, powerful engines and instead focused on creating the best-handling cars.That was the past, though, because Lotus Cars is now owned by Geely, the Chinese automotive giant that also counts Volvo, Polestar, Zeekr and more under its control.Geely’s vision for Lotus is very different to what has come before, with a future focused on building electric SUVs and sedans; such as the already released Eletre and Emeya.All of which is a very long way to get us to the car we’re actually testing - the MY24 Lotus Emira.This is the last petrol-powered sports car from Lotus, and while it has been available already with a V6 engine, it has recently arrived with a Mercedes-AMG four-cylinder turbo.Given its place in the grand scheme of things, the Emira not only needs to live up to the legacy of the iconic models that came before it, but also needs to lay the foundations for the brand’s electric future. Which is a lot of pressure for one car to carry…

The Ferrari 12Cilindri should not exist. Everything about it shouts of excess to the point of illegality. Surely, one would assume, emissions regulations have made a vehicle with a naturally aspirated V12 engine as socially, and indeed legally acceptable as asbestos sandwich wrapping. The work it must have taken to somehow squeeze this thing through the regulatory net is clearly more than any other company could be bothered with - the 12Cilindri is the only new atmo V12 a lot of money can buy. Ferrari made the effort because this car, with this layout, is an integral part of the brand’s heritage, dating back to 1947, the rock on which it is built. Old Enzo Ferrari himself said the V12 is the Ferrari engine “everything else is a derivation of the original”.[read-more-default-title]A 16-year warranty! Plug-in hybrid models from Ferrari like the SF90 and 296 score generous scheduled battery replacements'If I was to sit here and say everyone in the world can't wait for an electric Ferrari, that wouldn't be accurate': Ferrari Australia boss said V12 power found in the new 12Cilindri to continue as long as people want itReckon the Purosangue's blasphemous? The gorgeous 2024 Ferrari 12Cilindri keeps unelectrified V12 magic alive in a front-engined Lamborghini Revuelto and Aston Martin DB12 rivalAnd, of course, they made it because there are plenty of purists out there who will pay big, big dollars to have one. We flew to an unfortunately soggy launch for the car in Luxembourg to see what a V12 that can now rev to 9500rpm would feel, and sound like.