SUV Reviews

At long last Volkswagen is set to enter the small SUV market in Australia with a dual-pronged assault.

Is Lamborghini's best car an SUV? The Berry family thinks so after the new Urus came to stay.

So many SUVs today are just hatchbacks that sit a bit higher off the ground. But there was a time, long, long ago, when SUVs were four-wheel drives designed to be able to tackle serious off-road terrain. The new-generation Suzuki Jimny can do exactly that. But most people won't, so we figured we'd see what it was like as an urban runaround. We even got the automatic version!

After rising to the top of the Porsche tree in its first 4.5 years, can the updated Macan still compete with numerous newer SUVs?

The Porsche Macan S sits above the base Macan in the German brans’s mid-size SUV line-up, with its $97,500 list price sitting $16,100 above the $81,400 Macan. The next Macan Turbo performance flagship isn’t due until 2020, with a new GTS to sit between it and the S set for a 2021 arrival.The key Macan S feature you get for your extra money over a base Macan is an extra two cylinders and a significant performance boost thanks to its 3.0-litre tubocharged V6 engine producing 260kW and 480Nm. This enables a claimed 0-100km/h sprint in 5.1 seconds.Aside from its stronger engine, mechanical Macan S upgrades include bigger front brakes with an extra two pistons to total six, Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) adaptive dampers, silver dual exhaust outlets on either side and one inch larger 20-inch ten spoke alloys.Seat heaters and active cruise control will still cost you more on either Macan, but one omission I find quite surprising is that they still don’t get much in the way of active safety gear as standard. Unlike pretty much every other premium SUV on the market, you’ve got to pay extra to get AEB with the active cruise control pack.

The LandCruiser Prado Kakadu is not what you'd call cheap, but nor is Toyota stingy with the spec. But is it the hardcore off-roader it needs to be given it's full of stuff?

The Pajero Sport's engine may make decent numbers, but can the relatively little 2.4-litre still manage decent performance and economy when pulling a decent load?

Is Volvo's XC40 Inscription T4 the perfect combination of form and function? We found out.

Can a family hauler be both posh and practical? Kia thinks so. So we borrowed the Sportage GT-Line for the weekend to put it to the test.

Australia has been waiting two whole decades for a new Jimny, but does the all-new model live up to the legend?