Curt Dupriez

2 days ago | chasingcars.com.au | Tom Baker |Curt Dupriez

Wheels on Aussie terra firma since 1999 has given the S3, the all-rounder of Audi’s small ‘3’ model line-up, a long enough innings to cultivate a bona-fide cult following all its own. Audi Australia has delivered over 12,000 S3 hatches through four generations and sedan versions through gens three and four. So there’s been much to like about the arguably classier, premium-grade Volkswagen Golf R alternative for quite some time now.

1 week ago | chasingcars.com.au | Curt Dupriez

Aussies love to look fast even if they mightn’t have the means — or even the want — to go fast. That, according to Audi Australia, is precisely why the newly face-lifted A3 looks almost precisely like its pricier and hotter S3 model mate. Much like rivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz, Audi has seen more and more buyers ‘sportify’ humbler options off the showroom floor to a point — beginning some time ago — that athletic vibes, in spec and styling, has become standard issue fitment.

1 week ago | chasingcars.com.au | Curt Dupriez

The new seventh-generation Subaru Outback has debuted at the 2025 New York Auto Show with a boxy new exterior styling that firmly plants the popular 4×4 wagon in SUV design territory. After three decades, the Outback looks to firmly shake its Liberty-Wagon-on-stilts aesthetic with a taller, edgier exterior design that’s now certifiably SUV in form and proportions.

3 weeks ago | chasingcars.com.au | Curt Dupriez

Apologies for repetition, but the EV3 is Kia’s fourth ‘EV’-branded EV behind EV6, EV9 and EV5. And as the most petite model of the quartet, the small SUV lands into a crucial slot in the Kia’s line-up as its most affordable electric, with a $47,600 kick-off in base Air guise.

1 month ago | chasingcars.com.au | Curt Dupriez

“If it had a diesel I’d have bought one.” That, according to GWM Australia, has been a recurring feedback from potential Aussie Tank 300 buyers the importer has thus far failed to convert into owners. And it’s remained the elephant in the garage ever since the upper-mid-sized 4×4 wagon first arrived in 2023 as a turbo petrol and, 12 months later, a petrol-based hybrid.