Australia’s largest automotive retailer, Automotive Holdings Group Ltd, has unveiled a record first half net profit of $33.6 million.
The result compares to $21.5 million for the previous corresponding period and includes a profit on the sale of carsales.com shares.
Underlying profit was a record $28.7 million, up 157.9 per cent, on group revenue of $1.6 billion.
The [...]

Sure, it’s a stunningly impressive-looking beast of a car. But what’s even more staggering about the Carlsson C25 is its numbers.
Twenty-five cars to be built, each pumping out 554kW of power and limited to 1150Nm of torque (the C25 is apparently capable of 1320Nm). One hundred kilometres an hour in just 3.7 seconds. A top [...]

Confirmed for production in May last year, Audi has at last revealed the 2011 Audi RS5, the range-topping model in the A5 line-up.
Scheduled for a 2010 Geneva Motor Show debut next month, the RS5’s official reveal this morning follows a series of leaked images that surfaced online this week.
Like the Audi [...]

Speaking to press last year, Hyundai America CEO John Krafcik confirmed that the Korean carmaker will introduce a new coupe in 2011 as a successor to the Tiburon. New spy photos this week of a Hyundai prototype show that development is well underway.
While camouflaged, the blacked-out A pillars and hump-backed roofline of the Veloster concept [...]

With the roll-out of the first batch of 200 new digital cameras now under way in NSW, lead-footed motorists are at risk of being penalised twice if they speed through a red light.
The new cameras, capable of detecting both speeding and red light offences in the same moment, could see drivers losing their licence in [...]

A west Australian dealer has failed in his appeal to get back a car back impounded under ‘Anti Hoon’ legislation. Victorian Park Auto Classic dealer principal Darrin Brandon has had his yard’s sole demonstrator Mini Cooper S impounded for 28 days after a test driver was allegedly caught doing 170km/h down the Rowe Highway on [...]

Location: Lakeside Raceway, Queensland.
Model Tested: 2010 Chevrolet Camaro 2SS - $135,000
It’s been a while since I’ve had to set my alarm for 5.00am, but when you have an invite to pair up with a couple of motor racing heroes like Kevin (KB) Bartlett and rising V8 Supercar star Lee Holdsworth for a few hot laps [...]

The US government has received new complaints that bring to 34 the alleged number of deaths in Toyota vehicles due to sudden acceleration since 2000, according to government data posted on Monday.
The government has received complaints during the past three weeks alleging 13 deaths. The deaths allegedly tied to this problem happened in nine crashes [...]

The 80th international Geneva Motor Show beginning in two weeks time will represent a very real look into the future of Chevrolet vehicles in Europe.
Chevrolet Europe president and managing director, Wayne Brannon, confirmed five new vehicles will join the line-up next year as a part of the brand’s centenary year celebrations.
One of those will be [...]

Police believe a mobile phone application being used by Melbourne motorists to identify the location of police booze buses will not hinder their drink-driving fighting efforts.
Victoria Police Inspector Martin Boormansaid there was nothing illegal about the application, which is called Trapster.
‘‘It’s disappointing, but we don’t believe it will slow us down in any way, shape [...]