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As one of Europe’s most iconic city cars, it’s only fitting that the Fiat Panda is coming to Australia to belatedly expand the Italian brand’s local line-up. And it’s another Fiat that demonstrates what the company does best, because...
The Ford Fiesta ST sees the end of a five-year sabbatical for a high-performance version of the Blue Oval company's city car. Ford hasn’t offered a hot Fiesta since the last generation XR4 went off sale in 2008.
The Peugeot 208 GTi has a lot to live up to. The French company has spent considerable effort promoting its latest hot hatch as a modern-day embodiment of the 205 GTi that, decades on, remains in the hall of fame for great driver's cars.
You could blame the 2010 launch of the Volkswagen Polo GTI for the ongoing shift away from manual-transmission-equipped hot hatches to dual-clutch automatics. There’s a case to argue that it’s all going the wrong way – that properly...
The Renault Zoe is a full electric-vehicle with no internal combustion engine. This means that at no time are there any fossil fuels going into a tank, because it doesn't have one, and emissions aren't expelled from an exhaust pipe ...
The all-new Renault Clio RS 200 EDC takes the light hot-hatch segment to an entirely new level. Whether it can still satisfy the Renault Sport purists is a different question, however.
At $22,990 the Honda Jazz Hybrid is Australia’s most affordable hybrid vehicle. But the second-generation Honda Jazz has been around since 2008, with a moderate update in 2011, so what makes this now nearly five-year old city car a candidate of a...
The Honda Jazz really is the only choice for light-car shoppers looking for clever utilisation of space within small dimensions. It's roomier and more practical than its rivals by a good margin, and it has been that way since the original car...
The Opel Corsa OPC is the most powerful hot hatch available for under $30,000, and as it turns out, one of the most fun. Priced from $28,990 (before on-road costs) the city-size Opel Corsa OPC – or ‘Opel Performance Centre’, the German...
The Mitsubishi Mirage sees the return of another popular nameplate in Australia. It replaces the Colt as the Japanese brand's city car competitor, though is priced from below the likes of the Mazda2 and Ford Fiesta and more closely aligned with...
When the all-new Holden Barina launched late last year, it was heavily criticised for its recalcitrant auto, patchy ride quality, inconsistent steering and breathless engine. Holden, understandably, was disappointed.
It was hard not to adapt an immortal song lyric after punting the Ford Fiesta Metal through a bendy section of national park. Although it didn’t really need to be confirmed, for a true car enthusiast, all you need is … a light body, manual...
The Citroen DS3 was the first of the French brand’s new breed of premium cars paying homage to the famously innovative ‘Diesse’ sold from 1955 to 1975. But there’s no longer much of a ‘premium’ price tag attached to this city car.
The headlines say Australians are deserting large cars like the Commodore, but they’ve also forgotten ultra-cheap hatchbacks like the Holden Barina Spark. Despite a $12,490 entry sticker a full $3500 less than the Barina proper, the larger...
The Fiat 500, the modern-day incarnation of the 1960s ‘Bambino’, for now remains the only passenger car from the Italian brand on offer in Australia. The likes of the Punto and Bravo are likely to return sometime in the near future now...
Signing on the dotted line for an Audi A1 Sportback is the cheapest way to get yourself behind the wheel of a new car branded with the famous four-ring badge. With a starting price of $26,500 before on-road costs, the A1 makes the prestige...