Curt Dupriez

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

BMW’s new second-generation 2 Series Gran Coupe, the ‘F74’, has launched in Australia, clinging to a particular ‘entry premium’ formula favoured by Munich and its Audi and Mercedes-Benz contemporaries as gateway drugs of sorts to brand ownership. Now, front-drive-biased small hatches – and, eventually, four-door coupes – have been ground floor entry for Germany’s Big Three dating back a quarter century now, but BMW’s 2 Series GC, debuting in 2019, is the latecomer.

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

Australia’s controversial Luxury Car Tax (LCT) could be abolished as part of the newly reelected Albanese government’s attempts to negotiate favourable trade conditions with Europe in the face of volatile US trade tariffs and global economic uncertainty. A report published in The Australian claims that “a source close to the Prime Minister” has revealed that the Federal Government is “prepared to dump the [LCT] tax” in trade for “better access for Australia’s agricultural exports”.

3 weeks 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 month 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 month 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.