Cars

One branch of China's Sports Car Club demands members own at least a Porsche Carrera GT, worth more than $400,000 when new in 2004.

Motors

Sports cars drive Chinese class rift

Adam Taylor Reviled ultra-rich car club is a signpost to China's growing social chasm.

Motors

Sports cars' plea for speed ... and space

Chris Woodyard Optimistic sports car makers insist their 320km/h rockets really are practical.

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Motors

Five Formula 1 cars for the road

Andrew Maclean A handful of the top cars that are built on formula one technology.

Record sales

Boomtime for sports cars

Toby Hagon and Richard Blackburn The next breed of fuel efficient sports cars is set to capitalise on record sales of cars designed more for fun than practicality.

Under the radar

How Europe's rich hide their fast cars

Owners are getting the hired help to drive their supercars to avoid being recognised by the tax office.

007 motors

Top 10 James Bond cars

Stephen Ottley The British spy turns 50 this week and in that time he’s managed to drive quite a collection of cars, we rate his best.

Cars for stars

Channelling star power though a used car can be big business on the auto auction circuit.

Drive culture

What cars do conservatives buy?

When pondering this, or other highly important questions, one can turn to that font of knowledge known as Conservapedia.

Prestige

Compact luxury cars on the rise

Joshua Dowling Why the next big thing in luxury cars is small. And rugged.

Vehicle heist

Not the Aventador! Edelsten’s cars stolen

Richard Blackburn Thieves have stolen three cars – including a Lamborghini and a Mercedes SLS ‘Gullwing’ from society doctor Geoffrey Edelsten.

Top quality cars revealed

Steve Colquhoun Lexus leads, Volkswagen struggles as technology causes headaches.

Driverless cars yield to reality

John Markoff Google's autonomous vehicle project might face bigger obstacles than the technological ones.

A salute to Australia's 10 most important cars

Tony Davis braves the knockers to list his best local models of all time. Let the arguments begin.

What crisis?

What crisis? Luxury cars power ahead

Financial crisis, what financial crisis?

Noisy cars most annoying

Michelle Griffin What annoys Australians the most? Noisy cars, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

From race to road

McLaren to build high-performing sports cars

Formula One car maker McLaren unveiled plans on Thursday to build a range of commercial sports cars, using race technology to take on other high-end European manufacturers such as Ferrari and Porsche...

Eco challenge

Solar cars power up for outback race

With a fleet of vehicles resembling huge insects and spaceships, motoring enthusiasts from around the world gathered in Darwin for a car race with a difference.