Small, zero-emission car building company, Riversimple, has begun touring its two-seat, hydrogen-powered car in Australia to raise awareness for possible production.
The Riversimple is an extremely light-weight (350kg), carbon-fibre bodied hydrogen car, that uses a 6kW Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies fuel cell and a 1kg hydrogen tank to power it along.
The car is said to be [...]

Micro-cars could be the next big thing and brands are competing for their slice of the little action, writes Richard Blackburn and Toby Hagon
Micro-cars are set to invade the Australian market. Suzuki started the trend last year with the tiny 1.0-litre Alto and now Mitsubishi has confirmed it will import a city runabout to sit [...]

Renault’s innovative Zoe electric car needs name change, says French woman Zoe Renault.
What’s in a name? Well, a lot, apparently. Just ask someone named Zoe.
Renault is facing renewed pressure - and potentially a court case - to change the name of one of its upcoming models, the Zoe Z.E.
The company may be sued after an [...]

TOYOTA HAS today launched the 2010 Toyota Rukus, an ‘urban utility vehicle’ that Toyota hopes will return some sorely-needed youthful street cred to the Japanese brand’s local image.
“Rukus is set to invade our automotive culture, just as it has done in Japan and the United States,” Toyota Australia boss David Buttner says of the company’s [...]

The new-look 2011 Lotus Elise has been formally introduced into the Australian market, boasting a number of enhancements and a new engine.
The entry model Lotus Elise has dropped the ‘S’ and gains a new high performance 1.6-litre engine mated to a new six-speed close ratio manual gearbox - also a first for the Elise.
The Toyota-sourced [...]

A return of the Mazda RX-7 is unlikely.
Mazda’s head of global marketing, sales and customer service, Masazumi Wakayama, says because it is a relatively small car company “it will be very difficult to have an MX5, RX8 and then an RX7″.
From a cost and engineering viewpoint, sportscars are totally different type of specialist car to [...]

It seems Aussie motoring fans just can’t cut a break with news this morning that the 2010 Brisbane Motor Show has been cancelled due to a lack of exhibitors.
“There is just not enough content to stage a show that meets the public expectations,” said organisers, Expertise Events in a statement.
It is the second year in [...]

Nissan Australia has today revealed the 2010 Nissan Dualis+2, ahead of its market debut in July.
Longer and taller than the regular Dualis, the Dualis+2 is a seven-seat family wagon, built on a stretched version of the platform used by the Dualis 2WD and AWD hatch.
“Against rivals that tend to appeal to the head more than [...]

Yesterday we reported that Audi outsold Mercedes-Benz for the first time and we can report today that BMW has remained the number one premium manufacturer by beating German rival Audi in the first quarter of 2010.
The result makes BMW, which also outsells Toyota’s Lexus, the world’s top-selling premium brand.
Nonetheless the [...]

Interesting news today from the United States suggests that Daimler (owners of Mercedes-Benz) are considering a controversial plan to make the next generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class range a hybrid-only lineup.
This would mean that all S-Class variants will come with hybrid drivetrains only, even the V8, V12 or AMG variants. The idea currently being considered by Stuttgart [...]