The next Frankfurt Motor Show will be the occasion to check out the fourth-generation Prius, set to go on sale in early 2016. Lexus, the luxury division of the brand, will also present its new revisited GS model.
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Jaguar 2016 XE 25t R-Sport, XE S and XE Prestige 20d
Australian Launch Review
Jaguar’s new XE has been a long time coming, but it’s been worth the wait. Two years ago, after the new car was officially announced, we speculated that it would be named XE. Since then the formula for a smaller-than-XF model has steadily crystalised, with news of its sophisticated Ingenium engines and sleek but conservative looks. Priced from $60,400 it’s now in Australia, ready to land a blow on its entrenched German rivals.
You’ve used all the online tools the car selling websites have to offer, and finally decided on the new car for you. You’ve picked the colour, carefully chosen the equipment grade and you even have an idea of the options you’ll tick.
How are you going to pay for it? Are you better off paying cash or taking out a loan? And, if you’ve chosen the latter route, what are the choices when it comes to car finance?
MotorNews.com.au affiliate Carloanapproved.com.au is one of the country’s top sources of automotive finance. Sure, they’d like to sell you finance (there’s even a link at the bottom of this page) but, they’re also an excellent source of information in a field that can offer traps for young player.
Here’s the Car Loans Experts advice…
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If you need to feel the wind absolutely tearing – not just rustling – through your hair, Lamborghini has the thing.
It’s the fastest open-topped car in its history, with a 350km/h top speed – that’s 217 miles-an-hour in pre-metric measurements – and the potential to fire itself to 100km/h in just 2.9 seconds.
There’s just one thing – it’s going to cost you $916,950 in Australia.
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There are times when you find yourself behind the wheel of the Ford Ranger when you can forget you are driving a ute.
No-interest or low-interest car loans are the latest salvo from car manufacturers desperate for sales. When a car dealer offers you money for nothing, there must be a catch, right? Well, yes and no.
One of Australia’s cheapest vans has been slammed by safety experts after scoring a “poor” two-star rating out of five in a crash test.
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So you’ve found the car of your dreams at a car dealership that also offers finance at an incredibly low rate … it’s tempting, but how do you know if this is your best finance option?
It’s not your only option to finance the purchase of a new car.
The first ever Holden Commodore built by the late racing legend Peter Brock will be auctioned by Shannons in Sydney today (Monday August 10).
It is likely to fetch $85,000 to $95,000, even though the car it’s based on cost just $9600 when new in 1980.
Unlike other Brock Commodores, this is the car the race ace used to test all the performance parts before he did his first 500 limited edition models, which led to a series of fast personalised road cars for more than a decade before his acrimonious split with Holden.
Middleton spent the next 17 years meticulously restoring 001.
Unlike 499 of the 500 vehicles in that first batch which were all red, black or white, car 001 was two-tone green because it was a former Holden company car given to Brock to start the project.
The car, which has “001” engraved on the steering wheel, was bought by a Holden dealer in Pennant Hills, 33 years ago this weekend to the day.
Holden used-car salesman Jim Middleton sold it to a family friend in August 1982 after it sat on the lot for just one day.
But Middleton bought the vehicle back 11 years later, and then spent the next 17 years meticulously restoring it.
Middleton finally got car number one on the road five years ago but has decided it’s time to sell.
“I’ve owned it for 22 years now, I’ve done the rounds of car club shows, it’s just time to move on,” said Middleton.
“To my knowledge, this is 001,” he says. “I’ve kept my ear to the ground and been searching for another 001 for the better part of 30 years and it’s never surfaced. No-one has ever come forward with 001 in red, white or black. We know where 002 is, it’s a red car. But to my knowledge, and according to the HDT bible, number 001 is listed as being green.”
Commodore enthusiasts will recall there is another early Commodore, a light blue car, that Brock used as a test bed and dubbed “000”.
It was never issued with a numbered steering wheel but decades later Brock put his signature to a handwritten “000” on the glovebox.
The blue car was originally loaned to Brock by one of the founding Holden Dealer Team dealers Vin Keane from Adelaide (other founding HDT dealers included Laurie Sutton and Les Vagg from Sydney and Warren Smith in Melbourne).
Having experienced a hard life, the blue VC surfaced a few years ago in Melbourne but its current whereabouts and condition are unknown.
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