2025 Ute payload guide (Australian market)

With 430km claimed driving range, 700Nm of torque and 3.5T towing, is the MGU9 EV an electric AWD ute that can actually tow your boat on the weekend?

We've finally driven the all-new, fifth-generation Mitsubishi Pajero on Australian soil – literally! – in this first taste of what it's like off-road from behind the wheel of a range-topping GSR.

Ferrari has finally brought back the iconic gated manual gearbox. Except it hasn’t – not quite. The 12Cilindri Manuale is the first three-pedal Ferrari in The gated shifter and clutch pedal are back at Ferrari – but the conventional manual hasn’t made a full return. The distinction matters, but not as much as you’d think

Leapmotor has struggled to make its mark in a market swamped by affordable Chinese electric vehicles. At a time when rivals are experiencing explosive With lots of tech and a pricepoint to turn heads, is the new BO5 hatchback the car to firmly put China's Leapmotor on the map in a crowded EV market?

Swedish-branded, Chinese-built hyper GT is huge on style, manic in pace and reasonably priced. But can it seduce with enough charisma to find Aussie buyers?

Kia’s petrol-powered K4 hatch appears to be fighting a losing battle against the wave of sharply priced small Chinese EVs. But for the purists, there’s still plenty to like

Volvo puts itself in the key midsize electric luxury SUV buyers’ conversation with first electric equivalent of its best-seller

On the July morning that our newest long termer, the 2026 RAV4 GXL AWD, landed in the Chasing Cars garage, Toyota’s medium SUV was about to celebrate its Australia’s most popular SUV, in desirable yet affordable GXL trim, has rolled into the Chasing Cars garage for a proper long-term test. Can it live up to the hype?

Sharing its impressive all-new 800-volt architecture with the third-generation CLA, the new five-plus-two-seat GLB champions space efficiency, driving comfort, refinement and EV tech

Not quite the full-on, game-changing, low-cost EV we were promised, cut-back Model 3 RWD still delivers superb value

The Nissan X-Trail has never been a bundle of laughs … unless the original model’s dogged understeer and wobbly body shimmy over corrugations fuelled your With front-drive versions of hybrid medium SUVs making up more than half of sales, Nissan Australia has doubled its X-Trail e-Power line-up with three new FWD variants, lowering prices and fuel use.

In a twist for Mazda Australia, executives believe the brand’s new made-in-China CX-6e electric SUV could become its best-seller, displacing the Latest China-sourced Mazda shows potential, if falling short in execution — particularly the touchscreen

Polite indifference? Cautiously optimistic? We were somewhat kinder on Mercedes-AMG’s initial turbo-four-pot forays of the current-gen X254 GLC SUV (and Key mid-life update sees Affalterbach’s go-fast medium SUV backpedal to older-school turbo-six power: a rawer change, both good and bad

The phenomenon of a front-wheel-drive car switching to rear-wheel drive has been a rare occurrence over the past 60 years – starting with the FWD Triumph You wouldn’t know from looking at it but this Atto 3’s mildly updated appearance hides a dramatic uplift in electric architecture, chassis capability, performance, range and value

Despite its conservative styling and its image as yet another cookie-cutter Chinese EV, the BYD Atto 2 has so far impressed us in review with its painless BYD continues its quest to become the Chinese Toyota by launching Australia’s cheapest plug-in hybrid – the Atto 2 DM-i, offering 90km of electric-only range for under $30K.

Remember the diminutive, fuel-sipping Japanese ‘Kei’ cars that used to populate Aussie roads during decades past? They never sold in huge numbers but they Unlike everyone else, Honda’s new small EV happens to be a tiny Kei-car on steroids – an engineering-led marvel that prioritises urban agility, space utilisation and driving fun

GWM’s four-strong hybrid and PHEV all-wheel-drive line-up brings boxy styling, all-terrain promise and sub-five-second 0-100km/h performance

Mercedes-Benz Australia has confirmed pricing and specifications of its 2027 CLA Shooting Brake small wagon, launching in a sole ‘200’ grade, albeit with

Chery will launch yet another new brand in Australia in the middle of 2027, and this time it says it is targeting the likes of Zeekr and Denza. Exlantix –

Mercedes-Benz Australia has revealed the pricing of its introductory C-Class Electric variant, the 360kW C400 4Matic sedan, priced from $105,700 before

After selling just 250 examples of its pioneering (but expensive) i-MiEV micro electric car back in 2010-13 – beating the Nissan Leaf EV to market –

The Mercedes-Benz performance arm AMG has revealed its first dedicated electric SUV, setting up a battle of the super-rapid super-SUVs with Porsche’s

Porsche has confirmed plans to build a dedicated mid-engined supercar based on its Mission S concept to sit above the 911 in its high-performance range. With money troubles on the mind, Porsche is looking to win back hearts with a stunning and potentially flat-eight-powered mid-engined supercar

Tesla has unveiled its latest version of the Roadster, featuring spectacular rocket-powered abilities that CEO Elon Musk has promised will “crush every The new Roadster has been re-unveiled to the world, featuring Cybertruck-like styling radically different from the first version we saw back in 2017

Hyundai has revealed a second-generation Bayon, though the European-built compact SUV is again expected to be excluded from the Australian market. Bayon Second-generation Bayon adopts bolder, more SUV-like design

Leapmotor’s Australian head Andy Hoang believes there will be casualties in the fight for the hearts of local car buyers. “This is my personal belief. I

Mercedes-Benz Australia has released pricing and specification for its first-ever PHEV versions of its large GLE SUV, on sale today from $156,900 list for Mid-five-second performance and 3.5-tonne towing offered for Benz’s first-ever plug-in large family hauler, priced from $156,900

Nissan Australia has confirmed its first batch of Y63 Patrols have rolled off the assembly line in Japan and will soon head here, where the 4x4 is due to More than a year after it was available in other parts of the world, the new-generation Patrol is finally on its way Down Under

The Smart #2 brings back the world's most famous two-seater city car as an EV to make everyday parking virtually guaranteed while also promising a range

Nissan has confirmed the Terrano large SUV is under consideration for Australia. The Terrano sits on the same platform as the incoming Navara Pro PHEV set

Peugeot has unveiled a modern-day successor to the RCZ at the Paris Motor Show, which transforms the front-driven coupe into a 1000-volt monster with Solid-state battery technology, 10-minute charging times and holographic displays are among some of the reasons the RCZ Vision is turning heads in Paris

Italian brand Alfa Romeo has had its fair share of new chapters and the latest comes in the vision of a striking 2+2 fastback called the Cuorerosso. Alfa