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Best pics yet of 2024 BYD ute!

By Andrew Chesterton · 15 Feb 2024

BYD's incoming dual-cab ute has been snapped testing in Sydney, giving us our best look yet at China's answer to the soon-to-launch Ford Ranger plug-in hybrid.

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How to build your ultimate 4WD

By Marcus Craft · 04 Feb 2024

Some off-road vehicles are capable of being driven straight out of the dealership and into the Simpson Desert … and some aren’t. Here’s our condensed list of some of the more important aftermarket mods and products you’ll need for safe and stress-free off-road adventures.

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The truth about Ranger, HiLux, D-Max

By Laura Berry · 04 Feb 2024

More people bought the Ford Ranger, Toyota HiLux and Isuzu D-Max than any other vehicle last year - of did they? CarsGuide asked the car companies to provide the data on who bought their big sellers.

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Toyota claps back at haters in Australia

By Andrew Chesterton · 03 Feb 2024

Toyota says it has been unfairly tagged as anti EV, insisting electric vehicles will play a role in its plan for reducing its carbon footprint with its "multi-pathway" strategy.

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Plug-in hybrid HiLux will change the ute game

By Andrew Chesterton · 31 Jan 2024

Toyota says work is underway on a new generation of plug-in hybrid vehicles for Australia that would transform the technology from the “ultimate inconvenience” to the “ultimate convenience”.

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Australia's most unpopular cars revealed

By Stephen Ottley · 29 Jan 2024

Ford celebrated the Ranger becoming the best-selling vehicle in Australia in 2023 and the Toyota HiLux raced up behind it - but what happened at the other end of the sales charts? What were our least-favourite models last year?

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Everyone should own a 4WD - here's why

By Marcus Craft · 27 Jan 2024

Out of all of the vehicles available on the market today, a 4WD simply makes the most sense as a great all-purpose vehicle because it can be big and tough and it has a drivetrain, mechanical and suspension set-up engineered to pretty much get you anywhere you want to go. Everyone should own a 4WD – and I’m about to explain why.

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Kia Tasman is the most Australian Kia ever

By Andrew Chesterton · 27 Jan 2024

Kia says its upcoming diesel dual-cab ute will be the most Australian vehicle it has ever produced, declaring that the amount of localisation work going into the Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger rival makes it "not even in the same sport" as its other models.

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Why Holden/Falcon utes are better than HiLux

By Byron Mathioudakis · 26 Jan 2024

If you have around $20,000 to spend on a used ute, it makes more sense to consider the Australian-made later-model Holden VE and VF utes made up to 2017, along with the Ford FG and FGX Super Cab and Cab Chassis utes through to 2016, rather than imported truck-based alternatives like a 2019 LDV T60, 2014 Ford Ranger or 2011 Toyota HiLux, and here's why.

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Bad news for the Tundra hopeful

By Andrew Chesterton · 20 Jan 2024

There's bad news for anyone hoping to get a hold of a Toyota Tundra sometime in 2024, with the brand vowing there will no early marks for the tough truck with the evacuation program to run its full course.That means the 280 customers who have joined the T

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