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The Drive Five: The week’s most interesting stories

Catch up on the best content you might have missed from the Drive homepage.


As you might be aware, 2021 marks the year CarAdvice and Drive become one – bringing together both sites' top-shelf automotive content under the one banner.

For you, dear reader, not much will change. We're still the same team, with the same familiar faces and high standards for our new-car content and love of all things automotive.

The only difference is you'll eventually be able to meet all your new-car needs in one place, Drive. 

Until then, however, we want to make sure that while you're glued to CarAdvice, you don't miss out on the original content we're producing on Drive.

To keep you informed, we'll be rounding up our five favourite Drive stories of the week each week. Behold, the 'Drive Five'...

Late Fast and Furious star Paul Walker had a love of cars both on and off the silver screen.

His collection included a 1989 Nissan R32 Skyline and five rare BMW E36 M3 Lightweights, but one of his lesser-known acquisitions was a 1965 Shelby 427 Cobra FAM.

That car, which has a fascinating backstory, is now up for auction – you can read the full story here.

Under a new deal, utes across Australia's resources sector will soon be transformed into electric cars.

The $330 million deal was inked with Australian auto-electric company GB Auto and will see 2000 utes converted over four years.

To learn more, click here.

"Bullet-proof and capable of a zero to 60mph (96km/h) sprint in 2.8 seconds."

Need a mobile safe room for a future apocalypse? An American specialist armouring company has you covered with its latest creation – an armour-plated Ferrari 458 Speciale.

To see photos and get more details, click here.

Now that humans have to wear face masks whenever we step out, it perhaps makes sense that our cars should too.

At least, that's the thinking behind Honda's latest creation – a new air filter which claims to capture more than 99.8 per cent of airborne virus droplets.

To see photos and read more, click here.

Since its arrival in 1975, there have been seven generations of the Porsche 911 Turbo.

The long-running debate as to which generation is best has finally been put to rest, with Porsche holding its own ultimate drag race between the different cars.

To read the full story and see the video, click here.

Susannah Guthrie

Susannah Guthrie has been a journalist for over a decade, covering everything from world news to fashion, entertainment, health and now cars. Having previously worked across titles like The New Daily, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, People Magazine and Cosmopolitan, Susannah now relishes testing family cars with the help of her husband and two-year-old son.

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