Cobey Bartels

3 days ago | trucksales.com.au | Cobey Bartels

The 2025 Brisbane Truck Show blitzed previous attendance records, with well over 50,000 people visiting to see the biggest display of trucks, trailers and accessories in the Southern Hemisphere. While so many come to see the trucks, just as many visitors attend to check out the latest and greatest trailers, from next-generation fridge units to heavy-haulage low-loaders and, of course, the latest performance-based standards (PBS) combinations.

4 days ago | trucksales.com.au | Cobey Bartels

The 2025 Brisbane Truck Show was the biggest yet, with show organiser HVIA announcing nearly 55,000 people visited the event across its four days. It wasn’t just the crowds that set a new standard either, with an incredible array of exhibitors across the 35,000sqm exhibition, from truck makers to trailer manufacturers, parts pioneers and technology titans. Taking centre stage, however, are the trucks.

6 days ago | goauto.com.au | Cobey Bartels

CHINESE smartphone-come-car manufacturer Xiaomi has revealed its latest electric creation, and it’s a Ferrari Purosangue look-alike that’ll outpace its Italian doppelganger without using a single hydrocarbon. Yes, the same Xiaomi that builds the SU7 supercar, which Ford chief executive Jim Farley recently admitted to daily driving and not wanting to give back. “I don’t like talking about the competition so much, but I drive the Xiaomi,” Mr Farley said on the Electric Everythingpodcast.

6 days ago | goauto.com.au | Cobey Bartels

BMW has given its second-generation M2 Coupe the hardcore CS treatment, putting the already-rapid model on a serious diet, while beefing up its engine to match the outputs of upstream M-car siblings. That’s right, the track-focused M2 CS will now feature the same 390kW (up 37kW) and 650Nm (up 50Nm) as the M3 and M4 Competition models, courtesy of M-division fettling which includes an upgraded cooling system and map-controlled oil pump.

6 days ago | goauto.com.au | Cobey Bartels

BMW unveiled yet another heady design study at this year’s Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, held at Lake Como in Italy earlier this month, this time premiering a limited-run M8-based Shooting Brake called the Speedtop, which uses the “most powerful V8 engine currently offered”.