BYD’s rapid rise in Australia has reached another milestone. The Chinese car giant has confirmed it is developing a model specifically for Australian buyers, a move that says just as much about the market as it does about the car itself.While the Europe-focused Dolphin G plug-in hybrid will not be coming here for now, BYD […]
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The Airbus A380 was supposed to change aviation forever. For Qantas, it certainly changed long-haul travel. The double-decker giant became the flagship of the airline’s international fleet, carrying passengers between Australia and destinations including London, Dallas and Singapore while helping define an era of big aircraft and even bigger ambitions. That era is now approaching […]
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Football has always been good for beer. In 2026, beer may need football even more.The next World Cup is shaping up as the most beer-friendly tournament the sport has ever staged. It will be bigger, longer and held across the US, Canada and Mexico, three markets where a cold drink and a big screen are […]
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Ferrari has already accepted the unthinkable once. It built an electric car. Now, Maranello is trying to convince everyone that there is still one modern trend it will not follow. Fully self-driving Ferraris are off the table, at least according to CEO Benedetto Vigna, who says the brand will keep improving driver-assistance systems but will […]
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The TAG Heuer Monaco has always looked like it belonged near a pit lane. The new Monaco Speed 12 looks like it swallowed the engine. Unveiled around the Formula 1 Louis Vuitton Grand Prix de Monaco 2026, the Speed 12 is not another safe colour swap or heritage nod. It is a 50-piece, $87,000 (~$124,000 […]
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Raymond Weil has done something this week that it has never done in fifty years of making watches. The Geneva-based, family-run maison has released its first timepiece with an integrated bracelet, badged the A.R.T. collection, and the embargo lifted overnight. For a brand that has spent half a century watching everyone else play in this […]
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When Audi killed the R8, it left behind a question that never really went away.What does a modern Audi supercar look like? The answer, it turns out, looks surprisingly Italian.The new Audi Nuvolari is the fastest and most powerful production model the four-ring brand has ever built. Packing a hybrid powertrain that combines a twin-turbo […]
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Cruise ships have spent the past two decades getting bigger. The Freedom Ship wants to make them look small.Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas can carry around 7,600 passengers and has enough restaurants, pools and attractions to make some holiday resorts look undercooked. Yet even that floating giant starts looking surprisingly small when you place […]
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Rolex does not usually have second thoughts. The brand’s biggest hits tend to stay remarkably consistent from one generation to the next, while the less successful ideas quietly disappear from the catalogue. That is what makes the return of the Yacht-Master II so surprising. When the original arrived in 2007, it looked unlike almost anything […]
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After seven decades in Hollywood, Clint Eastwood appears to have quietly called time on one of cinema’s greatest careers. Clint Eastwood built a career on saying less than everyone around him. So perhaps it makes sense that his Hollywood ending has arrived quietly, through a passing comment from his son. There was no farewell press […]
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Nobody has ever owned a sport the way Ralph Lauren owns polo, and the funny thing is he did it by loving the picture of it more than anyone who actually plays. The white trousers, the long Sunday, the easy grace of the whole scene. He fell for all of it decades ago and then […]
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Lapland already has Santa, reindeer and the Northern Lights. Now Finland is adding something even more persuasive for summer tourists. Actual gold. The Finnish resort town of Levi has launched a summer-long treasure hunt that sends visitors searching across its trails, landmarks and fell landscapes for a hidden gold prize worth around €20,000 (~$33,000 AUD). […]
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Qantas’ 22-hour flight dream has finally taken to the skies. The airline’s first custom-built Airbus A350-1000ULR has completed its maiden test flight over France, moving Project Sunrise out of aviation fantasy and into the very real business of testing, certification and passenger endurance. The aircraft flew for three hours and 43 minutes over France and […]
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I gave house music a proper go. Six years of it. I’d write a track in the studio, then jump in the car and drive home to hear whether the mix actually held up. That was the real test. If it survived the commute, it was finished. If it fell apart somewhere on the drive, […]
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Full-size American pickups used to be a curiosity in Australia. A thing you’d see parked outside a Bunnings in Penrith and wonder who ordered it. That was five years ago. Today, the Chevrolet Silverado is the best-selling full-size pickup in Australia, with sales continuing to grow through GMSV’s national dealer network of around 60 locations. […]
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Audemars Piguet has clearly decided subtlety can take the summer off. After the Royal Pop drop reminded everyone that serious watchmaking does not always need to dress like a boardroom, AP is now pushing the same colour-first energy into the Royal Oak Offshore. That matters because the Offshore has never been the polite member of […]
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For most of its life, the Toyota Corolla has been the car you bought when you wanted no drama. Reliable, sensible, easy to recommend and about as rebellious as a tax return filed early. The new GRMN Corolla is not that Corolla. Toyota has revealed its most extreme production Corolla yet, and Australia is getting […]
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There was a time when 912hp belonged to bedroom posters, pit lanes and cars with prices that made accountants reach for a chair. Zeekr has now put it in a Chinese electric liftback for roughly US $54,000 (~$75,000). Even stranger, horsepower may not be the most ridiculous number here.The Zeekr 001 Fifth Anniversary Edition has […]
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Qantas has revealed its newest Airbus A321XLR, and for once the most interesting thing about a narrow-body jet is not the legroom argument waiting to happen. The aircraft, named Coral Sea, has rolled out of Airbus’ paint shop in Hamburg wearing a bright Great Barrier Reef-inspired livery across both sides of its 44-metre fuselage. Sea […]
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Adrian Portelli made giveaways feel like entertainment. Canberra now looks ready to treat them like gambling. The billionaire businessman behind LMCT+ has built one of Australia’s loudest modern prize machines, mixing luxury cars, million-dollar homes, cash giveaways and social media theatre into a subscription-based rewards club. For his 1.3 million Instagram followers, it has long […]
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For the first time since 2006, the World Cup is happening without a watch brand’s name on the fourth official’s board. Hublot has walked.After 16 years and four straight tournaments, the Swiss house confirmed in mid-December it would not renew its deal as FIFA’s official timekeeper. That leaves the United States, Canada and Mexico hosting […]
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Formula One used to be where luxury brands bought hospitality suites, dressed a few drivers and enjoyed being close to the noise. Gucci has decided that it is no longer enough.From 2027, Alpine will become Gucci Racing Alpine Formula One Team, with the French outfit replacing its current BWT identity with Gucci’s black, gold, red […]
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Ferrari has just shared the first proper look at the hull of its 30-metre Hypersail racing yacht, and it already looks like one of the strangest things Maranello has ever put its name on. The carbon-heavy foiling monohull has now been removed from its mould in Pisa after more than a year of curing, lamination […]
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Luxury brands love sport, but Rolex has always understood something others often miss. The best sponsorships do not feel like sponsorships at all. They feel like part of the furniture. That is why Rolex and tennis still make so much sense. The Swiss watchmaker giant has been tied to the sport for almost half a […]
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The internet reacted to 007 First Light like Bond himself had just stepped out of a DB5, martini in hand, ready to save cinema. In reality, it’s a video game. A very good one, by most accounts. IO Interactive’s origin story launched this week to strong reviews and early Metacritic scores that could make it […]
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Audi does not need another sensible performance car. It needs something people talk about when they are not shopping for one.That is why the latest R8 chatter feels bigger than a normal product rumour. The TT is gone. The R8 is gone. Audi still builds fast things, but fast SUVs and polished performance sedans do […]
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Ferrari did not just launch an electric car. It launched a question with four motors, five seats and a US $640,000 ($~894,000 AUD) price tag.The new Ferrari Luce is quick, glass-heavy, Jony Ive-designed and unlike almost anything Maranello has built before. It can hit 60mph in around 2.5 seconds, run to more than 190mph and […]
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The luxury car world has long spoken in a few familiar accents. British if you wanted old money. German if you wanted executive power. Italian if you wanted theatre. Chinese buyers knew the script as well as anyone, which is why BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Porsche and Rolls-Royce became shorthand for having made it.The Maextro S800 […]
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The VISTIQ landed on me in Melbourne for four days of mostly perfect autumn weather, which is exactly the kind of conditions you want to road-test something this big. Five point two metres of American three-row EV, captain’s chairs, a stereo that rearranges your understanding of what a car can do, and a price tag […]
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Tasman Drive was never trying to be famous. It was just a quiet residential street in Gerringong, south of Sydney, with a ureal view at the bottom of the hill and people living normal lives at the top of it. Then the internet noticed the angle. The road falls towards the ocean. The green hills. […]
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