If there’s a single car that epitomises Nissan’s phoenix-like rise from near financial ruin a few years ago, the suave, muscular 350Z is undoubtedly it.
Rewind to 1999 and Nissan was a company on the verge of bankruptcy. Hamstrung by excessive operating costs and an uncompetitive model line-up, the Japanese automaker was in a dire predicament. [...]

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The history of the Mitsubishi Pajero in Australia is a game in two halves, to quote a hackneyed expression from the world of football. When the NA Pajero arrived here in 1983 (before anyone even spoke of SUVs), it was ground-breaking and dynamic, but competitors throughout the 1980s and 90s gradually drew level.
With the introduction [...]

With a 50-year history of serving up rugged, tough, almost indestructible go-anywhere vehicles, Toyota has a serious reputation to maintain.
LandCruisers can be found on the streets and dusty tracks of every Australian outback town, in the paddocks of farms and stations from Tassie’s southern shore to the topmost tip and right across the middle of [...]

BMW isn’t the only car maker who’s small diesel offering ‘out-oomphs’ its petrol stablemate. Hitting the Australian market last December, Alfa’s diesel-engined 147 JTD matches the horsepower output and out torques its four-cylinder petrol stablemate.
Boasting an impressive 110kW and 305Nm, the 1.9-litre 147 JTD is 124Nm up on the identically equipped 147 Twin Spark. Indeed, [...]