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With little fanfare, the Nissan Z — known as the Fairlady Z in its homeland — has been revealed at the 2026 Tokyo Auto Salon.Externally, the major components of the facelift are the new front bumper, alloy wheels, and the Unryu Green hero paint option.The new bumper dispenses with the current car’s confronting slab-like rectangular grille opening in favour a wider design broken up by a body colour bar. The bumper itself is more sculpted and more cleanly continues the creases established by the bonnet.It’s not only a more cohesive design, but it decreases front lift by 3.3 per cent…

This week, BMW Group published provisional sales results for the year that just ended. Our focus so far has been on the core brand and its record-breaking M division. If you’re wondering how the other subsidiaries fared in 2025, the picture is mixed. MINI enjoyed a tremendous boost in deliveries over the past 12 months, while Rolls-Royce posted a slight decline.Although MINI sales rose by 17.7% to 288,290 units, the figure is still a far cry from the brand’s all-time high. Back in 2017, the Oxford-based marque shipped 372,194 vehicles to customers worldwide. Whether BMW’s British arm can come close…

Fast and Furious films have morphed into superhero-level adventure sagas. The physics-defying action has come to define the series. Ranking the Top Five wild scenes is no easy task. The insanity started with a relatively simple film. An undercover LA police officer, working with the FBI, infiltrates a gang of street racers to figure out how and why electronic goods are being stolen. The Fast and the Furious kicked off a franchise that followed a familiar path, until everything roars well past the laws of physics in Fast Five. We now have car-related movies that feature vehicles riding cables across chasms, jumping between high-rise…

Yesterday’s Tokyo Auto Salon showcased one of the rarest creations running from Toyota with the GR Yaris Morizo RR that got unveiled to Nissan and others. Nissan brought a new Aura Nismo RS concept, a hatchback, and its body creates an aggressive appearance. The Nissan Aura Nismo RS is based on the standard Note Aura Nismo, and this one is the racy version of the Aura Note. It features flared fenders, which make this car 5.7 inches wider, also creating dramatic vents that sit behind the sporty front wheels. Compared to the standard Nismo, this one sits 0.8 inches lower,…

A total of 380,350 cars, SUVs and light commercial vehicles were recalled in Australia in 2025, with customers forced to visit the service department to fix myriad mechanical and software faults. The 136 nationwide product safety recall notices issued last year ran the gamut from the tame (incorrect compliance labels in the Ford Mustang Mach-E) to the concerning (potential toxic gas leaks in Ford’s van lineup).According to the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, Ford issued the greatest number of recall notices in 2025 (26 in total) and also recalled the highest number of vehicles…

BMW pulled back the curtain on a near-production version of its Neue Klasse technology at CES 2026, showcasing what will become one of the most significant updates to its in-car experience when it reaches dealerships later this year. The star of the show? A deep integration with Amazon’s Alexa+ smart assistant that transforms the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant into a conversational AI capable of far more than basic voice commands.I spent time with the system in a new iX3 at CES, experiencing demos from both BMW product manager Sarah Rau and Amazon engineering manager Sophie Zhou. The technology shows promise,…

Miata sales were up 7.7 percent last year. Demand has been stable throughout the ND generation. A new Miata is expected to arrive later this decade. Usually, when a car approaches the end of its life cycle, its popularity begins to wane. However, sales figures show that the beloved Miata doesn’t follow that trend. It’s easy to see why, since the MX-5 doesn’t have a direct rival, although some buyers do cross-shop it with the Subaru BRZ and Toyota GR86. Sales data confirms that 2025 was a great year for the sporty convertible in the United States, broadly in line…

Toyota, a Japanese car manufacturing company, has revealed a new limited-production version of the GR Yaris at this year’s Tokyo Auto Salon. People expected the company to show up with a new MR2, but it turned out not to be. The new car is called the GR Yaris. Morizo RR was the idea of Akio Toyoda, who is the chairman, and his alter ego is Morizo. That’s where the Morizo name comes from in this new Yaris. His work was inspired by the Nürburgring 24 Hours endurance race, as he participated in the 2025 season; with the experience, it inspired…

Skoda has rung in 2026 by teasing an “Epiq new year”, and confirming the reveals of two all-new electric SUVs.CEO Klaus Zellmer presented the two cars under wraps in a new video published to the Czech brand’s media site today, both of which will be revealed this year.The first is the production version of the Skoda Epiq, a compact electric crossover roughly the same size as the existing Kamiq. Revealed in near-production form last September in Munich, the Epiq boasts the Czech brand’s new ‘Modern Solid’ design language and has been tipped by Skoda to offer price parity (at least…

Remember the BMW 6 Series? We do too, but it’s been years since BMW discontinued the model. By that logic, it shouldn’t be very easy to buy a new one, either. But apparently, two lucky customers managed to take home a brand new BMW 6 Series last year — six years after the 6 Series officially left production.Our friends over at Motor1 discovered that, perhaps unsurprisingly, the two 6 Series left on the lot over half a decade after they rolled off the production line were of the 6 Series GT body style. One sold in Q3 and one in…