Tony Davis

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Motoring Writer and Editor at Australian Financial Review

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Car brands BYD, CATL,GWM, Chery, Geely display new batteries, off-roaders

14 hours ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Apr 24, 2025 – 1.40pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Shanghai | The most remarkable thing at Auto Shanghai, the world’s largest motor show, was not the halls of gleaming new electric vehicles, with brands and shapes almost too numerous to count.
This electric Benz is better than any petrol-powered off-roader

1 day ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Apr 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? What is it? The Mercedes-Benz G580 is a fully electric version of the G-Class off-roader. The company was using the Mercedes-EQ sub-brand for its electric models, now its uses “Mercedes-Benz with EQ Technology”. And what does 580 stand for, you ask (I certainly did)? It doesn’t relate to power, or anything else specific.
Lamborghini are going toe-to-toe with China’s growing range of EVs

3 days ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Apr 21, 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? Making a car that is merely fast is never enough, says Stephan Winkelmann, the global president and CEO of Lamborghini. The German-born, Italian-raised executive is responding, in a roundabout way, to whether the famed sports carmaker needs to be wary of China. Loading...
PHEV or faff: is the new BMW M5 hybrid worth its weight?

1 week ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Apr 14, 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 BMW M5, launched 40 years ago, built its legendary reputation as the family sedan that chewed up and spat out sports cars. There have been many changes since. It started out with an inline six-cylinder engine, then came a V8, then a V10. In 2011, it returned to a V8, though with turbocharging.
It may look like the classic but Porsche’s hybrid 911 is better by far

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Apr 7, 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? It’s a case of if you know, you know.The external changes to the latest Porsche 911 are relatively minor, as updates to the classic 911 shape tend to be, and most people won’t have a clue just how big the update is.
Australia’s car market proves why US tariffs won’t help America’s automotive industry

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Apr 4, 2025 – 12.16pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? America’s car industry certainly has a problem, but that problem isn’t what Donald Trump says it is. The fact the rest of the world isn’t buying American cars, and nearly half of Americans are buying imports, has little to do with unfair trade practices.
Mercedes-Benz’s new coupe is a generous improvement on its predecessor

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Mar 31, 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? Mercedes-Benz has an all-new sporting flagship: the AMG GT 63. It is the latest in a trio of coupes with bodywork unique to the AMG sub-brand, starting with the SLS “gullwing” of 2010 and followed by the GT of 2015. Loading...
Mercedes-Benz’s new coupe is a big improvement on its predecessor

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Mar 31, 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? Mercedes-Benz has an all-new sporting flagship: the AMG GT 63. It is the latest in a trio of coupes with bodywork unique to the AMG sub-brand, starting with the SLS “gullwing” of 2010 and followed by the GT of 2015.
After more than a decade, BMW has perfected the art of EV variants

1 month ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Mar 24, 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? BMW was first out of the box when it came to small EVs, at least as far as upmarket Euros were concerned. Its radical i3 city car, produced from 2013, had unique carbon-fibre bodywork, forward-opening rear doors and large diameter skinny wheels to reduce rolling resistance. Alas, it never really caught on.
Will BMW’s Neue Klasse range be the game-changing EVs they promise?

1 month ago | afr.com | Tony Davis

Mar 21, 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? You ain’t seen nothing yet. That’s the message from BMW whenever it talks about its Neue Klasse range of electric vehicles. Announced in 2023, and previewed since then with “Vision” concept cars and information drops, the first production-ready variant will be unveiled in Germany later this year.