Tony Davis

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Motoring Writer and Editor at Australian Financial Review

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Get ready to geek out over the ‘coolest people-mover’ on the market

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Jun 9, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The luxury people mover isn’t particularly new as a concept. Lexus, for example has a seven-seater LM van, and a four-seater executive express version. But a people mover that fits into the luxury, performance and all-electric categories certainly is.
Could the updated Tesla Model Y break Musk’s sales slump?

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Jun 2, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Now that I’ve written a few hundred words about what I really think of Elon Musk, and promptly deleted them because this is supposed to be a car review, we can concentrate solely on Tesla’s refreshed Model Y. In other words, let’s consider the book, not the author. Loading...
The Mercedes-AMG CLE 53 is a classy but slightly impractical drive

1 month ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 29, 2025 – 10.45am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? What is it? The Mercedes-AMG CLE 53 4Matic+ Coupé, to use its slightly comical full name, is the first “hot-rodded” version of the attractive new CLE, a mid-size coupe that replaces the former C-Class and E-Class two-doors.
Audi’s long-awaited Q4 SUV is agile – and agreeable

1 month ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 26, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Like so many electric vehicles from the VW Group, Audi’s Q4 e-tron has been in an almost permanent state of Coming Soon. Now, four years since it was launched in Europe, the mid-sized SUV has at last arrived here with, by way of compensation, updates applied since it was first promised to us.
Aussie coffee has conquered LA - now here comes brunch

1 month ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 23, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The US speciality cafe scene is moving quickly – and the headwinds of change are blowing in from Down Under. This includes not only Melbourne-style espresso-based coffee but also good ol’ Aussie brunch. This is according to Bluestone Lane, the darling of exporting Australian coffee culture to America.
This extravagant Lexus is an A-Lister’s dream ride

1 month ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 19, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A trend among celebrities is to own a van that is anonymous on the outside, and extravagant as all get-out within. Some movie stars, rappers and famous-for-being-famous people have reputedly spent $US1 million-plus pimping them out.
Move over F1. This is the motorsport separating the men from the boys

1 month ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 16, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Toby Price might not be as well-known as Australia’s F1 stars, but he’s still among our most successful international motorsport exports. The 37-year-old has twice won the legendary Dakar Rally on motorcycles, and is the only person to have won this country’s Finke Desert Race on two wheels and four.
Did Jesus really visit the English coastal idyll of Cornwall?

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Tony Davis

Share Everything in Cornwall comes with a backstory. There’s Tintagel Castle, where King Arthur was supposedly conceived. And there’s Godrevy Lighthouse, an inspiration for Virginia Woolf. That grand old house was the model for Manderley in Rebecca (1938). Indeed, it’s exactly where Daphne du Maurier wrote her gothic classic. Penzance? Famous for its real pirates, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan’s. And that’s before we get to Jesus Christ.
Did Jesus really visit the English coastal idyll of Cornwall?

1 month ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 15, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Everything in Cornwall comes with a backstory. There’s Tintagel Castle, where King Arthur was supposedly conceived. And there’s Godrevy Lighthouse, an inspiration for Virginia Woolf. That grand old house was the model for Manderley in Rebecca (1938). Indeed, it’s exactly where Daphne du Maurier wrote her gothic classic.
How Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche and Lotus are pushing for top speed

1 month ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

May 13, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When it comes to sports cars, there’s only one firm rule: the new model must be faster than the old. The usual measure of speed is the all-important acceleration time to 100 or 200km/h. Some makers have broadened this definition to include lap times at, say, Germany’s daunting Nürburgring race circuit.