This is the 2024 Audi RS6 Avant GT, a special edition that pays tribute to the Audi 90 Quattro IMSA GTO racecar and 2020 RS6 GTO concept. At the heart of the RS6 Avant GT lies a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine, delivering 630 PS and 850 Nm, mated to an 8-speed automatic transmission and a quattro all-wheel drive system. This enables the RS6 Avant GT to complete the 0-100 km/h sprint in 3.3 seconds. To complement its powerhouse performance, the RS6 Avant GT features a motorsport-inspired do

Unique words tell a lot about a society. Have you heard of kaffeklatsch? It's a German slang for 'gossip over coffee'. Oddly specific as it is, it makes sense that it's coined by the people who invented drip coffee making, spilling a different kind of beans while another brews over... Fly to the other side of the world and thumb through their no less enigmatic dictionary, and you'll note that somewhere along the ideas of 'dear wife' and 'cherished pet', the Japanese have a place in the pages for

New Zealand is a very small car market. Selling less than 120,000 cars a year, the New Zealand car market is treated by car manufacturers as an extension of Australia (annual TIV of slightly over 1 million cars). Despite its small size, NZ is home to a very vibrant enthusiast car market. Its trade borders are open (at least for cars) and vehicle importation is simple. This explains why Toyota has given New Zealand a disproportionately high 150 cars allocation for the Toyota GR Corolla. Orders co

With prices of new cars increasing and demand also on the rise, plenty of hustlers are trying to make some profit by pricing their nearly-new purchases above the market price to get some willing buyers who will pay for anything just to get off a waiting list. Toyota Australia realises the existence of these price-gouging profiteers and is putting a stop to it for its most desirable model, the Toyota GR Corolla. The GR Corolla was just launched in Australia fairly recently and it is limited to ju

Mechanical underpinnings of the GR Yaris Engine tuned to make 300 PS/370 Nm 6-speed manual and AWD Ahead of its official debut, which will be happening in less than a day from the time of writing, initial details and photos of the new Toyota GR Corolla have been leaked. As speculated from earlier reports, the Toyota GR Corolla gets the GR Yaris’ 1.6-litre 3-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine, but fettled to output 300 PS and 370 Nm – a healthy 39 PS and 10 Nm increase over the GR Yaris. Also re

With the recent launch of the Audi RS6 and RS7, plus the BMW M3 and BMW M4 performance cars on our shores, it seems that there is a shift in direction towards the torque converter transmission (TCT) on core performance models. More importantly, manufacturers like Audi were - up until this point in time - massive proponents of the dual clutch transmission (DCT). Other performance-oriented brands have also followed suit. It wasn't that long ago when the dual-clutch transmission (DCT) was hailed as