Curt Dupriez

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Articles

Mercedes-Benz GLC200 4Matic 2025 review

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

When the second generation (X254) of Mercedes-Benz’s all-important mid-size SUV, the GLC, arrived in mid-2023, Chasing Cars wasn’t complimentary about the choice on offer. Or lack thereof. Major consolidation left no hybrid — in its proper sense — or plug-in extrapolation, and no diesel option. Just one GLC300 trim was offered, the ‘popular’ variant, with the more attainable GLC200 price-buster heading the way of the dodo with gen-one’s discontinuation.
Volkswagen Tiguan 2025: first Australian review

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

The confidence Volkswagen Australia has in the new third-generation Tiguan is perhaps best demonstrated in the breadth of the line-up at launch: it wants to take on everyone, from China at the bottom end of its revamped mid-size SUV range, to premium-badge German contemporaries at the top. New Tiguan lobs with just five variants – Hyundai’s Tucson numbers 17 at last count – and all with turbo-petrol power.
2026 Kia Sportage expands hybrid choice to challenge Toyota RAV4 harder

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

Kia Australia has released pricing and specifications for its facelifted Sportage range for model year 2026. Key updates include revised styling inside and out, added tech and safety features, a choice of all-wheel drive for hybrid variants and revisions to the turbo petrol powertrain. Sportage maintains its four-tier variant hierarchy – S, SX, SX+ and GT-Line – and continues the choice of diesel, petrol and self-charging petrol-electric hybrid powertrains.
Chery C5 2025 pricing and features: former ‘Omoda 5’ updated, MG ZS rival starts from under $30K driveaway

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

Chery’s erstwhile Omoda 5 small SUV has been revamped and rebooted as the ‘C5’ for 2025 and “simplified” into a two-variant model line-up. Why the rebranding? That’s because Chery plans to launch Omoda as its own standalone brand, in line with other markets, in the second half of this year. Competing at the more affordable end of the market, the updated C5 will seek to snatch the attention of buyers looking towards the MG ZS, Hyundai Venue and the run-out Mitsubishi ASX.
Electric new-generation Golf GTI and R confirmed

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

Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schafer has confirmed that a much-rumoured new-generation Golf GTI will be all electric and, as is tradition, it will be twinned by a flagship all-wheel-driven electric R flagship. Speaking with UK outlet Autoexpress, Shafer revealed that the current internal combustion Golf lineage will carry through until the of this decade, after which a purely electric era will spawn go-fast GTI and go-faster R twins.
BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe 2025 review

1 month 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.
Luxury Car Tax on the chopping board as Federal Government eyes trade negotiations with Europe

1 month 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”.
Audi S3 2025 review

2 months 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.
Audi A3 2025 review

2 months 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.
Seventh-gen 2026 Subaru Outback revealed

2 months 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.