February
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
From jousting sticks to selling boats online, eyeballs still rule
Carsales.com.au’s owner made a big bet in the United States. Now it has a new executive whose job it is to make it work.
- Anthony Macdonald
4WDs to be phased out quicker than utes under clean car plan
Heavy diesel four-wheel drives face a quicker path to extinction than utes under the government’s new vehicle emissions standards.
- Phillip Coorey
- Exclusive
- Climate policy
Revealed: the challenge facing our top car brands
Almost half the nation’s 20 top-selling vehicle manufacturers will have to make “significant adjustments” if they are going to meet the new vehicle emission standards.
- Phillip Coorey
The concept cars top that auto designers dream about
From a hyper Mercedes to a humble Ford Focus, these concepts are inspiring tomorrow’s cars.
- Tony Davis
- Exclusive
- Motoring
Meet Oscar Piastri, the calmest driver in Formula 1
On the eve of his second F1 season driving for McLaren, the 22-year-old Melburnian talks about luck, fear and “being good at chilling out”.
- Tony Davis
From Mercedes-Benz to Lamborghini, six of the best new concept cars
Whether a fully driveable machine or a flight of fantasy, the concept’s main job is to grab attention. These recent efforts that have done just that.
- Tony Davis
How movies inspire this crypto investor’s rare car collection
For Jeff Yew, founder of a bitcoin-focused fund, Humvees and Skylines get his heart racing.
- Jessica Sier
Labor holds to US vehicle emissions goal despite Biden ‘doubts’
Labor’s pressing ahead with a plan to encourage EVs by penalising fossil fuel-burning vehicles, even through the US is watering down the model it’s based on.
- Jacob Greber
NSW takes lead in sharing secret road crash data
The state is set to take the lead in a national scheme to share secret crash accident data that supporters say will reduce road funding pork barrelling as deaths rise.
- Jacob Greber, Simon Evans and Gus McCubbing
How Tesla-killer BYD plans to double its Australian sales this year
The new boss of Australia’s sole distributor of BYD vehicles is confident that he can make anyone willing to take a test drive fall in love with the Chinese manufacturer’s vehicles.
- Gus McCubbing
How China built BYD, its Tesla killer
BYD’s sales have grown by about 1 million cars in each of the past two years. The last car maker to accomplish that was General Motors – and that was in 1946.
- Keith Bradsher
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Quicker new car sales help dealers fight back against private sellers
Carsales.com’s result had the sort of unexpected nugget of information that made an otherwise very steady result more interesting for investors.
- Anthony Macdonald
Tradies lament dearth of hybrids with grunt in ‘grim’ EV market
Queensland tradie Henry Ladd would love to stop paying $220 to fill up his ute, but there’s no electric vehicle on the market with the towing capacity he needs.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
Ford’s electric ute weighed down by range doubts
The problem with large electric vehicles like the F-150 Lightning is the range plummets when used for the kinds of things we buy utes for – to haul heavy stuff, tow trailers and drive in nasty weather.
- Neal E. Boudette
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Transurban walks tricky line between profit and customers
Transurban’s new CEO, Michelle Jablko, wants us to think about population growth and its impact on traffic, but it is clear she hasn’t thrown away the company’s M&A playbook.
- Anthony Macdonald
Uber launches phone hotline to book a ride
Uber has plans to launch a phone-booking ride service in what its top Australian executive acknowledges is “a bit of a back-to-the-future moment”.
- Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
For work and play, this family is sticking with the ute
Scott Bird and Alexandra Orme want to ride the EV wave but their jobs and love of the outdoors are getting in the way.
- Gus McCubbing
Why ute drivers worry about Labor’s emissions plan
Power blackouts in Kalgoorlie and surrounds in mid-January did little to advance the cause of electric vehicles in rural settings.
- Simon Evans and Phillip Coorey
Lewis Hamilton shocks F1 with jump to rivals Ferrari
The superstar British driver said he is moving from Mercedes to Ferrari in 2025, a shift that surprised many in the elite motoring sport.
- Updated
- Jerome Pugmire
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Fresh faces spring hopes of a market darling’s comeback
Bapcor has some terrific businesses, but the ASX-listed auto parts group as a whole hasn’t been firing for investors. Change is coming.
- Anthony Macdonald
