Michael Pickering

5 days ago | whichcar.com.au | Michael Pickering

BYD has further expanded its Sealion family with the overseas launch of the Sealion 07 DM-i, a mid-to-large-size hybrid SUV. 10 May 2025 10:54 AM BYD has officially launched the Sealion 07 DM-i, a mid-to-large-size hybrid SUV, in China, the fourth addition to the automaker’s popular Sealion family and a hybrid sibling to the all-electric Sealion 07 EV introduced earlier in May 2024.

5 days ago | whichcar.com.au | Michael Pickering

It’s a fun game, predicting which cars are likely to become future classics. Of course, if anything becomes old enough and rare enough, it gains a certain curiosity value, but once in a while a car is launched and it becomes instantly and unambiguously apparent that it’s a nailed-on cert for classic status. And not even future classic status – it’s a fixture from launch. The BMW Z3 M Coupe is just such a car.

6 days ago | whichcar.com.au | Michael Pickering

When Damien Meredith first told his South Korean masters he could sell an extra 20,000 Kia cars in Australia, they did not believe him. But the CEO of Kia Australia persisted with a plan that was hoped to push the company past 100,000 annual deliveries and make it the number two seller in Australia behind Toyota. Now Kia is less than a month from playing the trump card for its $1 billion gamble on Australia’s love affair with one-tonne utes.

6 days ago | whichcar.com.au | Michael Pickering

Tasmania is an EV-friendly place to begin our stretch with the Mercedes-AMG EQE 53 4MATIC+ SUV09 May 2025 3:42 PM Price as tested: $191,900 plus on-road costsDistance travelled: 375kmPower usage: 23.7kWh/100kmHaving lived in Sydney and Melbourne my whole life I now call Tasmania home – at least that’s where I try to spend most of my time. It’s worth noting that Tassie is a relativity small place.

6 days ago | whichcar.com.au | Michael Pickering

Buttons in cars. Some people love them, some hate them. BMW led the original push to eject buttons from its cars with the first version of the iDrive system, in its 7 Series flagship way back in 2001. It promised to cut the button count by around half at a time when the luxury carmaker had more than 100 switches of various sorts sprayed around the cabin and back-seat lounging space.