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Let’s not beat bushy things. The landmark electric Abarth, the 500e, is tremendously charming, a fun-filled backroad stormer and a very handy urban runabout. And yet the Italian newcomer is compromised in practicality and modest in power, performance and range credentials by contemporary EV measures.
The updated-for-2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD feels about as politically correct as Barnaby Joyce lying drunk on the Canberra pavement.
The third-generation Nissan Qashqai small SUV first landed in Australia last year and did so with a promise that a fuel-sipping hybrid system would follow soon after.
Asked to identify the point of difference between the new BZ4X and the increasingly substantial field of electric SUVs entering the market, Toyota Australia vice president of sales and marketing Sean Hanley puts it best: “it’s a Toyota”.
The long-awaited first-ever fully-electric model from Subaru has finally landed in Australia, pitching itself as less of an electric vehicle, and more of a ‘Subaru’.
The outgoing fifth-generation Mitsubishi Triton, which first made its debut in 2015, was characterised by its reliability, affordability and being as tenacious as a one-eyed mountain goat when you took it off road.
Try and think for a moment of an affordable all-wheel-drive hatchback that you can currently buy right here in Australia. The available options for those with tighter budgets are surprisingly small.
Hyundai Australia is preparing to fire a huge hybrid salvo at Toyota’s broadside with an onslaught of frugal petrol-electric models – marking the first time a rival manufacturer has seriously challenged Toyota’s two-decade dominance of partially electrified powertrains in this country.