The six-year-old Mazda 2 has defied its age to claim Australia’s light car class crown in 2013. Rather than being a big winner last year, the Mazda 2’s segment win was a matter of being the smaller of two losers. Sales of the ...
A sedan version of the Chevrolet Sonic RS hatch, badged locally as the Holden Barina RS, will make its world premiere at tomorrow’s Los Angeles auto show. But Holden, which launched the Barina RS hatch last week, has distanced ...
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We’re used to SS as a Holden performance badge but the Holden Barina RS introduces letters more familiar with rapid Renaults and Audis, and the fastest Focus. Hot Holdens also continue to be more associated with fast Commodores, so ...
The Holden Barina RS has staked its claim for the title of Australia’s cheapest sports hatch, launching from $20,990. The Barina RS becomes the halo model atop the regular 2014 Holden Barina line-up, which is now between $800 and ...
The interior of the next-generation Holden Cruze has been almost completely uncovered roughly three years out from the launch of the locally made small car. CarAdvice’s spy photographers snapped the revealing images of a ...
The Holden Barina RS will go on sale in November, adding a performance flagship to the city car range. The Barina RS borrows its turbocharged 103kW/200Nm 1.4-litre four-cylinder petrol engine from the Cruze small car, helping the ...
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Performance, Ride & Handling 3 Comfort & Interior 2.5 Quality & Design 1 Value & Features 3.5 Green 3.5 It would be easy to take cheap pot shots at the Chery J3, one of the most recent Chinese-made vehicles to enter the Australian ...
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The pint-sized European-built Kia Picanto is no longer on the agenda for an Australia launch until at least 2015. Interest in the Picanto, which had been rumoured to join Kia’s local line-up for much of the past two years, seems to ...
The first spy shots of the next-generation Holden Cruze have emerged, more than three years before the new car is scheduled to roll off Holden’s Adelaide production line. The camouflaged mule was snapped during cold-weather testing, ...
Fiat has dropped the price of its 500 and 500c models substantially as it begins its repositioning strategy to re-launch the brand. The iconic Italian manufacturer, which switched back to factory distribution in Australia (from Ateco) in ...
The light or city car segment had a modest sales increase of 3.9 percent overall in 2012 compared to 2011 with sales remaining relatively consistent across the field. For light cars under $25,000, the Holden Barina (up 50.5 percent to ...
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The 2013 Mitsubishi Mirage will be available from launch for $12,990 driveaway and for a limited time will come with a $1000 gift card, strengthening the appeal of all-new Thai-built model in the price-sensitive city-car segment. ...
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The Mitsubishi Mirage will battle it out with the cheapest cars on the market from January following the confirmation of a sub-$13K starting price for the all-new Thai-built city car. The entry-level Mitsubishi Mirage ES manual will start ...
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It has been over a year in the making but Chevrolet has become the first of nine manufacturers to integrate Apple's Siri personal voice assistant into its MyLink infotainment system,with the Spark and Sonic LTZ and RS to gain the feature ...
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