Prestige & Luxury Cars

When it comes to electrified vehicles, Australians all seem to have the same concern: our country is genuinely massive, and the all-electric range offered by EVs typically isn’t. This tends to ignore the logical point that most of us don’t drive from Brisbane to Broome very often, but who said humans are logical?

BMW Australia will let loose its facelifted X7 on local soil in the fourth quarter of 2022, but buyers will have to pay extra for the 2023 model compared with the outgoing ultra-lux large SUV.And that's because the existing xDrive30d and M50i grades have

Mercedes-Benz is back as a Top 10 selling brand in the Australian new vehicle market, the three-pointed star finishing eighth in the June sales race, and now threatening the likes of Subaru and Nissan on the year-to-date (YTD) leader board.

When a driver gets behind the wheel of an electric vehicle (EV) for the very first time, there are a few things that mark it as a decidedly different driving experience, compared to an internal-combustion engine (ICE): the instant torque, the silence and the absence of fuel fumes. 

Mercedes-Benz says it will launch the EQE sedan in Australia leading with the top-spec EQE53 AMG.

If there are two things Porsche is good at, it's making sports cars, then figuring out a way to make more.The German brand has turned filling out its range into an art form, introducing new model variants at precisely the right time to keep interest - and orders - up.That’s true of all of its models, from the Macan to the 911, and now that treatment is expanding to the Taycan electric car range.Having added the ‘entry-level’ Taycan RWD earlier in 2022, Porsche is now adding the Taycan GTS. This latest addition fits neatly into the line-up between the Taycan 4S and the Turbo S - offering what Porsche calls “a real sweet spot” in the range.GTS stands for Gran Turismo Sport and is meant to signify that this model has the right balance between performance and comfort to make the driver happy when they find an engaging piece of road or if they drive their Taycan every day.

Genesis' first standalone all-electric model, the GV60, will be available in two grades priced from $103,700 before on-road costs when it launches in the third quarter of the year.That entry-level price will be for the Lux grade, which scores a 234kW/605N

The fastest-charging electric car using AC (alternating current) charging is currently a tie between the Porsche Taycan, Audi e-Tron and Audi e-Tron GT. The fastest-charging EV using DC (direct current) charging is a tie between the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6. 

While brands like Haval, Great Wall Motors, Chery and BYD wear their Chinese-ness on their sleeves, there are plenty of other Chinese-made cars on sale in Australia that most would never pick as being from the Middle Kingdom.

The butterfly effect is a chaos theory positing that a small change in initial circumstances can ultimately lead to a large-scale altering of a much larger situation. The name comes from the idea that something as small as a butterfly flapping its wings can eventually create a hurricane.