Prestige & Luxury Cars

Mercedes-Benz has revealed the 2023 update for the current-generation CLA ‘four-door coupe’ and its Shooting Brake wagon variant, which brings with it new tech additions and some design changes to refresh the CLA’s looks.

The new-generation e2 is the latest in a long string of new BYD products announced for release in 2023.

Of course it was going to happen and now here it is: the first electrified Chevrolet Corvette - the E-Ray - has officially been revealed overnight in New York and CarsGuide can confirm it’s coming to Australia.

Anybody who reckons Lexus is just a brand for luxury-loving folks needs to take note of this year’s Tokyo Auto Salon aftermarket car show, where a LandCruiser-based LX600 stood proud, fresh from one of the hardest off-road races in the world.

Forget Maranello, Zuffenhausen or Woking, the latest supercar to break cover has been designed and engineered in Kabul, Afghanistan.The Hada 9 is the brainchild of 32-year old Muhammad Raza Ahmadi, CEO of Entop, which has been working over the last five years with the Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute (ATVI) to develop the car.Featuring a full tube-frame chassis, pushrod suspension and composite body, the dramatic mid-engine machine is currently powered by a 1.8-litre (2ZR-FE) Toyota petrol four-cylinder engine mounted transversely behind the cockpit.Producing a modest 103kW at 6000rpm and 173Nm at 4400rpm, the car's chassis is designed to leave room for the addition of electric hybrid support or a fully-electric powertrain in the future.And there’s an Australian connection! Mr Ahmadi affectionately refers to the car as the ‘Black Swan’ because he sees the Hada 9’s arrival as surprising as the first Europeans sighting black swans on what is now Perth’s Swan River in the late 1600s.“Swans were white, but when the continent of Australia was discovered (by Europeans), people witnessed the opposite,” he said.“This also applies to Afghanistan. Foreigners believe that all people in Afghanistan are poor and need humanitarian aid to survive.“In such a situation, the invention of this car can be seen as if a black swan has popped up from among the white swans.”There are no specific plans to market the car in Afghanistan or elsewhere. At this stage, the Hada 9 is supported by Afghanistan’s Taliban administration as a signifier of the country’s manufacturing capacity.“This car will be an ambassador and will drive across Afghanistan and convey the value of knowledge to the people,” Mr Ahmadi said.Critics have suggested the Afghan government should focus on social and cultural policy reform rather than support a car that will struggle to even run on the country’s notoriously punishing roads. 

Mercedes-Benz has undercut the starting price of its two main rivals with its new EQE electric sedan.The sleek saloon is on sale from today, and will sit under the recently launched S-Class-sized EQS in Benz's growing electric vehicle line-up.It will be i

The world's first hybrid-electric Chevrolet Corvette - the E-Ray- has been confirmed for Australia ahead of the supercar’s reveal this Tuesday, January 17.

BMW Australia is preparing for three new M Cars to land in the first quarter of the year, with the brand’s performance arm likely to increase its market presence in Australia in 2023.

The numbers have been tallied and the results are in at the conclusion of the 2022 new car sales race. And the biggest winner is… Toyota - who else?

The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, which keeps track of every new car sold in Australia, described 2022 as an “unusual year” - which is a spectacular understatement.