Hyundai has added a new 3-door i30 to the local line-up. The ‘Special Edition’ i30 is powered by the brand’s 1.6-litre GDI petrol engine also seeing duty in the Hyundai Veloster. It delivers 98kW @ 6,300rpm and 163Nm @ 4,850rpm and is paired with a six-speed manual or six-speed automatic …

As the Alfa Romeo 4C inches closer to launch, the Italian brand has released a new promotional video of the sports car tackling the Balocco test track. The clip shows the 4C performing some fancy manoeuvres, including going sideways and smoking its tyres. Under its elongated bonnet is a 1.75-litre …

Holden’s VF SS V Redline Ute has become the fastest ute to take a lap around the gruelling Nürburgring in Germany. With Holden’s Dynamics Engineer, Rob Trubiani, behind the wheel, the V8 powered Australian icon took 8 minutes and 19.47 seconds to blaze around the track, faster than many exotic …

Volvo seems determined to shed it boring image. Following the recent launch of the company’s BMW M3 and Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG contender, the S60 Polestar, a new proposal has now emerged in the form of a Heico Sportiv’s tuned V40 T5 HPC (High Performance Concept) with 257kW of power. Heico …

Lexus driver Kenshiro “Ken” Gushi is targeting victory in the Exhibition Class of the world famous Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this Sunday. The celebrated drift champion and racing driver will pilot the Lexus IS F CCS-R contender that he drove to second in class and 32nd overall last year …

The all-new Range Rover Sport has launched in Australia, priced from $102,800 for the entry-level 3.0-litre turbo-diesel V6 SE model. The Range Rover Sport is built on an all-new platform and designed to capture the distinnctive DNA of its predecessor, while boasting better aerodynamics. The brand says it is lighter …

We won’t blame you, if like us, you have never heard of Montecarlo Automobile. It was established in 1983 by racing driver and engineer, Fulvio Maria Ballabio and is Monaco’s first automaker. Since then, it has been joined by the more established Venturi. 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of Montecarlo …

Sometimes as car testers, we seemed to forget that not everyone is as critical as we are when it comes to cars, just like food critics forget that not everyone gets annoyed if the skin on the roast potatoes isn’t the right shade of brown, or the spring onions are …

Volkswagen has released full details of the Golf 7-based Volkswagen Golf Wagon which will go on sale in Europe soon. Like the rest of the new Golf range, the Golf wagon is built on Volkswagen’s latest modular transverse matrix platform (MQB). It is up to 105kg lighter than the outgoing …

Entries ‘Powered by Nissan’ have dominated the LM P2 class at the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours as the Circuit de la Sarthe in France over the weekend. Nissan-powered entries finished in the top five positions of the ultra-competitive LM P2 class, with the first four of those entries also …

While most people choose to wrap their supercars in various shades of matte hue, as long as they are black, gold or grey, a bright pink supercar is rare as Justin Bieber in a ballet dress. But that’s exactly what we have got for you. A pink Audi R8 V10! …

For the second time in succession, Audi has won the Le Mans 24 Hours with a hybrid race car and e-tron quattro drive, thus continuing its unique success story at the world’s most important endurance race. Victory was clinched by Loïc Duval (F), Tom Kristensen (DK) and Allan McNish (GB). …

It isn’t very often that car manufacturers actually hand the media with spy shots of their own test cars, but that’s exactly what Mercedes-Benz has done. The spy photos you see on this page were first sent to certain publications in the UK before our friends at CarScoops got hold …

Nissan-powered cars took the first three positions in the LM P2 class during qualifying for the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours tonight. Nissan’s LM P2 customer engine programme has gone from strength-to-strength over the last three years. In 2013 a staggering 15 out of 22 LM P2 cars will be …