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Overview
RENAULT Australia is removing critical about light commercials.
It has prolonged reigned as series one in Europe, and a code sees this marketplace as a pivotal area in a continued growth.
Having recently introduced updated versions of a smaller Kangoo and Trafic, a code has now launched a large daddy of a LCV choice – a Master.
According to a French marque, a Master’s pivotal competitors are associate European-badged vans such as a Volkswagen Crafter and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, a good as a princely Ford Transit.
The doubt is, can it compare up?
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/58D59F40F48E2FF6CA2579A6007C6E54
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Make: Mercedes-Benz
Model: SLK
August 2004 Release date:
Aug 2011End date:
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THE R171 SLK arrived locally in Aug 2004 to substitute a strange SLK, initial seen here in Nov 1997.
Neither of these utterly strike a spot.
The 1997 automobile was pleasing though did not broach a rewarding pushing experience, while a R171 mislaid a visible glamour though was a higher automobile with most softened dynamics and performance.
It was also most some-more refined.
Nevertheless, by 2008 when a SLK was freshened, a model’s age was showing.
Tough foe from a Porsche Boxster and BMW Z4 had greeted a second array SLK from a entrance and maybe speedy a product planners to make poignant changes for a third, that is some-more focused, looks some-more manly and offers higher value.
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/BBBFF7AC12AEBA51CA2579A70009DF4A
Overview
THE one-tonne ute marketplace has been increased with a rush of new models, creation life worse for comparison models such as a Nissan Navara.
Now 7 years old, a Navara 4×4 organisation cab has been given a boost with an injection of new features, an upgraded four-cylinder engine and some-more customary reserve gear.
The large news is that a manly V6 that was formerly singular to a fully-loaded ST-X 550 is now accessible in a some-more affordable ST-X.
That competence not sound like large news, though for people who wish to tow, a whopping 550Nm of torque is a large deal.
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/9250E56463681857CA2579A7001157D1
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Make: BMW
Model: E90 3 Series
May 2005 Release date:
Feb 2012End date:
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BRANDISHING all-new ‘flame surfacing’ styling that tangible BMWs in a 2000s, a fifth-generation 3 Series sedan grew in each dialect compared to a renouned E46 predecessor.
It also introduced a company’s argumentative iDrive complement to a permanent range.
Six-speed gearboxes prevailed, even in a bottom 320i (110kW/200Nm).
There was a 160kW/250Nm 2.5-litre in-line six-cylinder 325i (joined after by a detuned 130kW/230Nm 323i version), as good as a 190kW/300Nm 330i – until a 225kW/400Nm 335i twin-turbo six-cylinder range-topper arrived.
For a initial time, a diesel 3 Series was expelled in 2006 (115kW/330Nm 320d).
Along with a raft of changes, that was uprated to 125kW/340Nm during 2008, as was a 320i (to 115kW).
A absolute 180kW/520Nm 3.0-litre in-line six-cylinder turbo-diesel was combined in 2009 (330d), though a opening flagship was a 309kW/400Nm 4.0-litre V8-powered M3 – a initial in Australian in four-door sedan guise.
There was also a E91 Touring car (from 2006) and E92/E93 Coupe/Convertible variants.
Minor trim and visible changes were introduced during 2010 and 2011.
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/8A4FD88241996B21CA2579A50022C0E3
Overview
HYUNDAI’S particular new Veloster coupe has finally arrived Down Under, dressed in a large operation of confidant paint colours to attract a whole new multiply of immature Hyundai buyers.
Combining both form and duty by charity a separate personalities of neat compress coupe on a driver’s side and available city hatchback on a other, a Veloster brings a swag of top-end apparatus for a surprisingly affordable starting cost of reduction than $24,000.
Beneath a singular new two-plus-on-door body, however, lies a automobile of genuine substance, with a well-sorted float and doing package matched with Hyundai’s sharp new six-speed dual-clutch auto.
Only a miss of torque from a Korean giant’s latest direct-injection 1.6-litre petrol 4 lets a group down, though penetrating drivers need demeanour no serve than a arriving Veloster Turbo for a solution.
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/B84CE56487C8C31BCA2579A30011E3B0
Overview
Skoda Australia increased a internal choice in Oct final year with a quirky Yeti, giving it a foothold in a renouned tiny SUV segment.
Smaller than many of a associate soft-roaders though featuring a stretchable and comparatively atmospheric cabin, a small Czech is certain to interest to those who wish something a bit different.
Here, we expostulate a top-spec 103TDI turbo diesel-powered all-wheel-drive version, that comes as tested with a six-speed DSG twin purchase transmission.
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/E34ABA59E5A0DDD6CA2579A00019E70A
Overview
KIA has combined a three-door hatchback and four-door sedan to a new-generation Rio choice that done a Australian entrance as a five-door in 2011.
The new models have essentially a same mechanicals as a five-door induce that arrived in 3 specifications levels – S, Si and SLi.
Now a three-door arrives to tip and tail a Rio range, with a entrance turn S and sporty SLS, while a sedan – in intermediate Si format usually – comes into a range, targeting some-more regressive buyers.
As GoAuto discovers, a new choices simply supplement acquire accumulation to a automobile that has already forged out an enviable repute for value and cunning in a light automobile segment.
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/183D32472414F3E3CA25799F00213EC6
Overview
Skoda Australia increased a internal choice in Oct final year with a quirky Yeti, giving it a foothold in a renouned tiny SUV segment.
Smaller than many of a associate soft-roaders though featuring a stretchable and comparatively atmospheric cabin, a small Czech is certain to interest to those who wish something a bit different.
Here, we expostulate a top-spec 103TDI turbo diesel-powered all-wheel-drive version, that comes as tested with a six-speed DSG twin purchase transmission.
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/E34ABA59E5A0DDD6CA2579A00019E70A
Overview
KIA has combined a three-door hatchback and four-door sedan to a new-generation Rio choice that done a Australian entrance as a five-door in 2011.
The new models have essentially a same mechanicals as a five-door induce that arrived in 3 specifications levels – S, Si and SLi.
Now a three-door arrives to tip and tail a Rio range, with a entrance turn S and sporty SLS, while a sedan – in intermediate Si format usually – comes into a range, targeting some-more regressive buyers.
As GoAuto discovers, a new choices simply supplement acquire accumulation to a automobile that has already forged out an enviable repute for value and cunning in a light automobile segment.
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/183D32472414F3E3CA25799F00213EC6
Overview
BMW has achieved a clearly unfit idea of concurrently augmenting both a opening and potency of a flagship sports sedan, a M5, notwithstanding augmenting weight by about 100kg.
The tip to a new M5’s commendable double act is a span of twin-scroll turbochargers, nestled alongside a empty ports in a hollow of a 4.4-litre direct-injection V8, that delivers 10 per cent some-more energy and 30 per cent some-more torque, while returning 30 per cent reduce fuel expenditure than a incomparable 5.0-litre V10 it replaces.
Commendably, a new M5 is also $12,000 cheaper than before during $230,000, creation it roughly $11,000 reduction than a many approach opposition in a Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG sedan, with BMW claiming that a horde of additional customary apparatus creates it $25,000 improved value than before.
So a fifth-generation M5 is quicker and some-more sophisticated, nonetheless cheaper and some-more efficient, though does BMW’s initial turbocharged M5 paint a step brazen in a origin of a 27-year-old breed?
Article source: http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/D9A61D604B31C1B1CA25799D002CFEC3
