News1st Jun 20172 min readLotus Elise Cup 250: Featherweight sports car gets track tune, Australian pricing revealed…News1st Jun 20172 min readLotus Elise Cup 250: Featherweight sports car gets track tune, Australian pricing revealed…
News31st May 20171 min read2013-2017 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV recalled for engine fix…James WongThe pre-facelift Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV has been recalled this week, with 1654 units potentially affected by an engine fault which could shut off the petrol motor inadvertently. Mitsubishi reports that improper engine software, electric vehicle (EV) software and spark plug specification are the cause of the issue, which could turn off the plug-in hybrid system's petrol engine unexpectedly during use, limiting the vehicle to electric power only. …
News31st May 20172 min readNEVS 9-3, 9-3X concepts unveiled: Electric Saab revival to enter production 2018…Derek Fung
News31st May 20172 min readUber fires head of self-driving car development in midst of legal battle with Google…Derek FungUber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the engineer who formerly headed up the company's self-driving car development team. Overnight, Uber confirmed to The New York Times it had fired its star engineer. Levandowski is at the centre of a court case launched earlier this year by Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle arm, against Uber. …
News31st May 20172 min readAudi Q2, Q5, Mini Countryman, Skoda Kodiaq score five-star ANCAP rating…News31st May 20172 min readAudi Q2, Q5, Mini Countryman, Skoda Kodiaq score five-star ANCAP rating…
News31st May 20172 min readFord Focus RS Option Pack adds LSD, black highlights, on the cards for Australia…James WongThe Ford Focus RS Option Pack has been revealed this week, giving the Blue Oval's hyper hatch several mechanical and cosmetic upgrades. Compared to the already manic 'standard' Focus RS, the Option Pack adds a mechanical limited-slip front differential sourced from tuning company Quaife, along with a two-tone colour scheme inside and out. …
News31st May 20172 min read2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk confirmed for Australia, here in December…James Wong
News31st May 20172 min readRob Melville to lead McLaren design, Stephenson rumoured for Mini return…Mike Stevens
News31st May 20172 min readOpel/Vauxhall sale held up by disagreement over on-going development work - report…Derek Fung
News30th May 20172 min readMazda rotary turns 50…Mike CostelloMazda is celebrating the 50th anniversary of it first production rotary engine, the technology with which it remains synonymous despite it being on hiatus since the 2012 death of the RX-8. The back story, as the company tells it, goes a little like this. Mazda, then called Toyo Kogyo Corporation, needed to stand apart from other fast-rising Japanese car makers, and to stay independent. …
