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1 day ago | 
carexpert.com.au | Paul Maric |Alborz Fallah |Anthony Crawford |JAMES WONG
Audi Australia has confirmed pricing and specifications for the updated RS3 Sportback and Sedan, both of which have seen markups of nearly $10,000. Due to arrive in showrooms from mid-2025, Audi’s smallest RS model cracks the $100,000 barrier for the first time in Australia. The RS3 Sportback is priced from $104,800 before on-road costs and the RS3 Sedan is priced from $107,800 before on-roads. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now.
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2 days ago | 
carexpert.com.au | Paul Maric |Alborz Fallah |Anthony Crawford |William Stopford
MG is launching its largest SUV yet in Australia, and its first model to offer three rows of seats Down Under. The MG QS will be the Chinese brand’s first direct rival for the popular Toyota Kluger, Hyundai Santa Fe and Kia Sorento, and will undercut all of them on price. Orders have now opened for the QS, ahead of a local launch during winter (June-August) of this year. The entry-level front-wheel drive Excite starts at $46,990 drive-away, though MG says this applies only until May 31, 2025.
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2 days ago | 
carexpert.com.au | Paul Maric |Alborz Fallah |Anthony Crawford |Max BakerNatasha Davies
The BYD Shark 6 holds the distinction of being Australia’s first plug-in hybrid (PHEV) ute, and it has proved to be a popular vehicle. Orders for the Shark 6 opened in October 2024, when pricing was also announced at $57,900 before on-roads for the sole Premium grade. First customer deliveries began a few months after orders opened. BYD hasn’t announced any changes to the Shark 6 since then. It beat the Ford Ranger PHEV and GWM Cannon Alpha PHEV to market, and is competitively priced against both.
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3 days ago | 
carexpert.com.au | Paul Maric |Alborz Fallah |Anthony Crawford |Josh Nevett
If you’re in the market for a back-to-basics worksite workhorse, the Nissan Navara is probably on your shopping list. Despite first launching more than a decade ago, the third-generation Navara remains a viable option in the Australian ute landscape, with 1524 sold over the first two months of this year. However, rivals are pulling ahead in the sales race.
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3 days ago | 
carexpert.com.au | Paul Maric |Alborz Fallah |Anthony Crawford |Marton Pettendy
The 2026 Fiat 500 Hybrid has been revealed – with a manual transmission – but the Italian brand’s first new-generation petrol-powered city car in 18 years is yet to be confirmed for release in Australia, where the old Fiat 500 was axed last year due to slow sales.
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3 days ago | 
canberratimes.com.au | Anthony Crawford
Mini has launched its most comprehensive JCW range to date, featuring everything from smoking-hot petrol-powered hatchbacks to stylish convertibles and, for the first time ever, all-electric variants. Subscribe now for unlimited access.
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3 days ago | 
carexpert.com.au | Paul Maric |Alborz Fallah |Anthony Crawford
A NSW Police Traffic and Highway Patrol operation last week not only swept up hundreds of drivers with drugs in their system, but also led to high-speed pursuits and the arrests of alleged drug dealers. Between 12:01am on Thursday, May 8 and 11:59pm on Saturday, May 10, police set up “hundreds” of stationary and mobile random breath and drug testing sites across the state.
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4 days ago | 
carexpert.com.au | Paul Maric |Alborz Fallah |Anthony Crawford |Derek Fung
The European Union is about to approve changes to its CO2 emissions compliance rules for car manufacturers, which could save them billions of euros in fines. At the end of last week, the European Parliament approved a change that permits manufacturers to meet their CO2 targets in 2025, 2026 and 2027 by averaging their emissions over those three years.
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4 days ago | 
carexpert.com.au | Paul Maric |Alborz Fallah |Anthony Crawford |Max BakerNatasha Davies
Not long after the fourth-generation 1 Series hatch arrived in Australia, the new 2 Series Gran Coupe sedan now completes BMW’s rejuvenated small car lineup. As has been the case historically, there’s little to separate the 1–2 pairing beyond body styles. You currently get two variants with two different engines, and a third middling variant is on the way. All three are well-equipped, and while they target different buyers, the same BMW fundamentals are still present underneath.
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4 days ago | 
carexpert.com.au | Paul Maric |Alborz Fallah |Anthony Crawford
SPONSOREDThe idea of a combined petrol-electric drivetrain is nothing new. Ferdinand Porsche created the Lohner-Porsche at the turn of the 20th century, but with 1800kg worth of batteries and almost 600kg of electric motors it wasn’t what you’d call… manoeuvrable. Almost 100 years later, Honda was an early adopter of modern hybrid technology, but the Insight couldn’t have been more different to Porsche’s early monster.
