Car News

With 2017 now done and dusted, we turn our eyes to the new year. The first cab off the rank on the global motor show circuit is Detroit, and we'll be on the ground to bring you the latest news. Opened in 1899, Detroit's big show lays claim to being the second oldest event of its kind, with only the one year-older Paris motor show outdoing it. (The New York motor show followed in 1900.)

Ford has revealed the North American Ranger, which will begin production in Michigan late this year to capitalise on massive demand for so-called ‘midsize trucks’ — a segment up in that region by 83 per cent since 2014. The Americanised version of Australia’s second top-selling vehicle — a vehicle which was designed and developed in Victoria for the world — is said to have been put through the same torture testing as its F-150 big brother. We're sure the Melbourne team did similar years ago...

The BMW 8 Series Convertible has been spied this week during cold weather testing wearing less camouflage, giving us a closer look at the company's upcoming drop-top. Looking very much like its coupe twin - albeit with a different roof design - there aren't too many surprises in terms of the 8 Series Convertible's overall design.

The Hyundai Tucson facelift has been spied while undergoing testing in Germany. At the front, the strong chrome bars that grace the current car's grille have been replaced by a honeycomb pattern similar to the one used on both the i30 hatch and revised Sonata.

As if rotaries were not loud enough already, a mad scientist by the name of Patrick Huu decided he was going to make a hybrid electric RX-7 using a jet turbine instead of the previous rotary donk. We received a few pictures of the contraption from a friend who recently attended 'Radwood', an ’80s–’90s car show held in Anaheim, California. After we saw that, we just had to do some digging to find out details about this weirdly wonderful Mazda.