Car News

Renault Australia will start selling the Kangoo ZE all-electric van to private buyers, offering it alongside the Zoe city car at a handful of specially-trained dealers. Previously reserved for fleet buyers, the electric load-lugger will be priced from $52,527 drive-away. Power comes from a 33kWh lithium-ion battery pack hooked up to a synchronous electric motor making 44kW and and 226Nm of torque.

The updated Audi TT RS has been spied again, this time during hot weather testing ahead of an anticipated launch later this year. It appears this mid-life facelift will be a rather mild procedure, limited to some revisions to the grille and bumpers, though those details are currently concealed by swirly black-and-white camouflage.

Infiniti has put work on its small luxury car on hold, due to a rapidly changing market landscape and fears over new tariffs. According to the business newspaper Nikkan Kogyo, Nissan has pulled the plug on a small luxury car being developed with the help of Daimler. Two main reasons were cited for the abandonment of the project: a big shift in the US away from passenger cars towards trucks and crossovers, and uncertainty over the future of NAFTA, or the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The Renault Megane RS280 has only just been priced for Australia, but the RS range is already doing the rounds on European roads. That means any hotshot with a few cameras and access to an autobahn can test out the claimed top speed. That's exactly what AutoTopNL has done, taking advantage of a quiet stretch of derestricted motorway to put the new French hot hatch through its paces.

Porsche is known for its World Endurance Championship (WEC) exploits nowadays, but it has a rich history in rallying as well. As it's keen to point out, the legendary brand actually won the Monte Carly Rally numerous times. After first entering the event in 1965, the combination of a 911, Vic Elford and David Stone won the event for the first time in 1968. Keen mathematicians among you will note that's 50 years ago.