Car news, 10th March ’25: Cadillac Optiq and Vistiq locked in for Australia, shock Tesla Cybertruck update, Nissan GT-R reborn for Adelaide Motorsport Festival

What is the last-of-the-line R35 Nissan GT-R T-Spec really like to drive on road and track? Find out with our expert GT-R review.

Expert review of the 2019 Nissan GT-R 50th Anniversary edition, including twin-turbo V6 engine, cabin changes, handling, price and specs.

There’s plenty of evidence that, in the current era, Japan is opting to continue along a consciously traditional and measured car-making lane, rather than The cheapest Nissan medium SUV mightn’t offer everything you want, but brings almost everything a traditionalist buyer needs for around $43K on road.

Underpinning a large part of the Nissan’s brand rejuvenation and volume plans for 2030 is its Chinese joint-venture with Dongfeng – the combined brains

Tuning a dual-cab Ute for Australia presents an enormous challenge for suspension engineers, given just how broad the talent spectrum needs to be to make The first all-new Navara in over a decade becomes a joint-venture vehicle with the Mitsubishi Triton, defined by its classy styling makeover and much-needed suspension improvements

The Tesla Model 3 is easily Australia’s most popular premium sedan. Last year, the Chinese-made, American-badged four-door outsold the BMW 3 Series/4 The Tesla Model 3 is the best-selling EV sedan in Australia. Over the next three months and 5000km, we’re going to see if the king deserves its crown.

The drawn-out and well-documented five-year gestation of Nissan Australia’s all-important Ariya model might’ve dampened this EV crossover's impact on the Long-awaited Nissan electric’s big-battery, front-driver appears to be the pick of its range. But can it keep up with the rest of the EV pack?

The original Tesla Model Y Performance was like the polarising deep-cut third album from your favourite band — the one that followed the sweet, well-liked Credible improvements in the Model Y Performance’s ride quality and body control lift engagement, making us cry out for a similar upgrade to this Tesla’s steering.

Intimate model-sharing among workhorse utes has been an intrinsic part of the commercial-vehicle landscape for at least 50 years now – far more so than All-new Navara morphs into a model-share with Mitsubishi, delivering unique styling details, an overhauled suspension tune and a Warrior flagship.

Nissan will always go down in history as the OG OEM for mainstream EVs – even though it wasn’t the first. Its original-generation Leaf (2010-17) was the Almost four years since it began production, the Nissan Ariya has finally reached Australia, filling an important EV niche in Nissan’s expanding enviro-friendly line-up

There are no two ways about it, Tesla’s sales are sliding in Australia. There’s an explanation, of course, with a stop-delivery creating pent-up demand Model 3 swings back into the garage but this time with Full Self Driving (Supervised) for the first time in right-hand drive.

The new-generation Y63 Nissan Patrol won’t arrive in Australia until 2026 — but Chasing Cars has completed an early test of the new-gen four-wheel drive The next Patrol impresses with a torquey twin-turbo V6, sweeter handling, and a well-built interior — but real-world fuel savings over the old V8 are slim

When pre-orders opened for the updated Tesla Model Y earlier in 2025, most early-adopter Australians gravitated toward the Rear-Wheel Drive (RWD) variant. Deeply impressive real-world efficiency, and resulting usable range, makes the much-improved Tesla Model Y base model a solid SUV choice.

The new-look Nissan Qashqai arrived in Australia in February with the Japanese carmaker answering the public’s calls for more hybrid trims. Hallelujah! Qashqai hybrid is a great, efficient drive but there’s absolutely no reason to spend mid-size SUV money on top-spec N-Design.

It might surprise you to discover that Cadillac – the 123-year-old American luxury marque that has been the pinnacle of the General Motors stable since The first Cadillac to officially go on sale in Australia in decades also happens to be the first-ever electric Cadillac. But has the striking Lyriq been worth the wait?

Chasing Cars doesn’t do political commentary. We publish road tests we hope Australian car buyers find valuable. So we’ll deal with the elephant in the Tesla has given its crucial Model Y a superb mid-life upgrade that fixes or improves many of the SUV’s previous faults—making its connection to fraught politics frustrating

The final production example of Nissan’s iconic Skyline ‘R35’ GT-R, finished in Midnight Purple, has rolled out of Japan’s Tochigi manufacturing facility The final Nissan R35 Skyline GT-R rolls off the assembly line with no successor in place

Australians bought more electric vehicles (EVs) in 2024 than ever before, with 91,292 sales eclipsing the 2023 total (87,217) by 4.7 percent, in an The best-selling electric vehicles in Australia, from the chart-topping Tesla Model Y to the least popular EVs on the market

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Cadillac has sent a shot across the bow at established European luxury brands as it asks Australian buyers to “give the brand a look” before judging it. An emboldened Cadillac believes Australians are ready to try something new and that it has a genuine point of difference to offer

It has been nearly 20 years since the ‘V35’ Nissan Skyline debuted in Japan, which itself marked the split of GT-R into a separate model name for the First look at next-gen Skyline reveals an angular, four-door body with iconic circular tail-lights, retro-inspired badging, and a new era for Nissan

Nissan's NISMO performance sub-brand will remain in Australia, with executives saying the now three-strong NISMO range demonstrate its commitment.

Nearly three years after Tesla ceased accepting Cybertruck deposits in Australia, the US-based manufacturer is undertaking extensive internal preparations Two more Cybertruck demonstrators have landed as Tesla Australia head tells Chasing Cars of the brand’s ambition to beat electrified ute rivals

MG Motor Australia has upgraded the flagship Essence 62 version of its MGS5 EV SUV with more power, performance and range as rolling MY26 updates in

It’s not just the global political landscape that is rapidly evolving – the Australian new-car market is undergoing a metamorphosis. Electric vehicles Even Toyota takes a big hit in response to huge volume gains made by BYD, Chery, Jaecoo, Geely and modest increases by Hyundai and Kia

The all-new third-generation Mercedes-Benz CLA sedan – codenamed ‘C178’ (for ICE) and ‘C174’ (for BEV) – has been priced for its imminent Australian

Entry to the Nissan X-Trail hybrid could be cut by thousands of dollars after the Japanese car maker confirmed a new, front-wheel-drive variant for the Front-drive X-Trail e-Power coming and plug-in-hybrid Frontier ute targeted as Japanese brand aims to improve efficiency of its vehicles

In just two months of sales for 2026, the Australian new vehicle market has marked a major milestone, with Japan losing its title of lead vehicle importer For the first time in 28 years, there were more vehicles sold in Australia from China than Japan

A recent Tesla press release has confirmed the brand will not introduce cut-price variants of its Model 3 sedan and Model Y medium SUV to Australia, Tesla Australia will rename its existing range with a ‘Premium’ focus — but one subtle line confirms this isn’t in preparation for the launch of cheaper, ‘Standard’ models.

Australia’s new car sales reached record heights in 2025, pushing a slender 0.3 percent past 2024’s result with a total of 1,241,037 deliveries. The 100 best-selling vehicles in Australia in 2025, from the Ford Ranger ute to the Jaecoo J7 SUV

Nissan Australia and Victorian-based engineering firm Premcar will once again collaborate on a hard-core off-road Warrior version of the Navara, as Nissan’s Ranger Raptor and Hilux GR Sport nemesis primed for a reboot in next year’s D27 generation

Tesla has announced that it has finally begun first deliveries of its Cybertruck electric ute, close to four years after a concept was first revealed by Tesla is finally delivering its Cybertruck to some customers in the USA, but the model is yet to be confirmed for Aussie shores