MOTOR Magazine Australia

If you love fast cars and everything surrounding them, then MOTOR is the magazine for you. From the hottest new cars to the wildest tuner vehicles, through the people who build, buy, race and repair them, MOTOR shines a spotlight on the late model car enthusiast lifestyle. Through 60 years of heritage MOTOR has built up a reputation as the car enthusiast’s bible.

FRONT END. ED’S NOTE • I’D LIKE TO SEE A SIMPLE $45K ELECTRIC HOT HATCH OR COUPE THAT’S DECENTLY BUILT AND DELIVERS THE GOODS FOR A KEEN DRIVER. THAT CAR DOES NOT EXIST. NOT EVEN CLOSE

Pace Notes • IF IT HAPPENED THIS MONTH, IT’S IN HERE

02 SAPPHIRE BLUE AT FOX • Melbourne hosts a Porsche collection like no other

03 MEGAZILLA! • Ford GT could finally be getting the engine it deserves

the Tribe

The Tiebreaker • You send in the cars you’re stuck on, we pick the one you should get

MOTOR Magazine Australia

First Fang

ALFA ROMEO STELVIO Q • Fresh and revitalised or too little, too late?

ALPINA B3 • M3 too loud for you? There is another way

JAGUAR I-PACE EV400 S • Now charges even quicker, but at a price

ALPINA’S FRONT MAN • WE SIT DOWN WITH ANDREAS BOVENSIEPEN TO FIND OUT HIS TAKE ON THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY AND ALPINA

RAIN SUPREME • VOLKSWAGEN ISN’T CONTENT WITH RESTING ON ITS LAURELS WITH THE MK8 GOLF GTI. BUT HAS IT MESSED WITH A PERENNIALLY WINNING FORMULA?

PAST TENSE • MOTOR HEADS TO MODENA’S MOTOR VALLEY FESTIVAL IN THE CAR PAGANI COULD NEVER KILL

COUNTER ATTACK • HOW SANT’AGATA’S MOST ICONIC BADGE ROARED BACK TO LIFE

CHASING THE SUN • HAS FERRARI’S POSER BECOME A PROPER PRANCING HORSE? WE TAKE THE BACK ROADS TO SAN REMO IN THE NEW PORTOFINO M

SUCH IS LIFE • A MYSTERIOUS BUSINESSMAN, A BRIEFCASE FILLED WITH CASH, SOVIET INDUSTRIALISTS, AND THE LITTLE TEAM THAT COULDN’T. THIS IS THE UNBELIEVABLE TALE OF FORMULA 1’S MOST BIZARRE TEAM.

SHADOW BOXERS • MERCEDES-AMG AND AUDI TURN DOWN THE FIREPOWER AS THEIR PERFORMANCE CROSSOVERS ENGAGE IN COVERT COMBAT

The top GREATEST RESTOMODS • We round up some of the finest cars that have been revitalised with a second shot at life

Sweet Dream CARS THAT DON’T EXIST, BUT SHOULD • A ‘clown shoe’ for the modern age that would elevate BMW’s M division beyond its current styling circus

BMW E60 / E63 M5 & M6 • A HIGH-REVVING, SWEET-SOUNDING V10 SEEMS GOOD ON PAPER, BUT THERE’S A POTENTIAL BILL-FUELLED REALITY

The beast with two hearts • How Audi used two tarmac racers to build an electric off-road monster

Cool Kit

the Garage

Hot Source 09.2021 • THE FAST GUIDE TO QUICK CARS

WITH A FINANCIAL FOCUS ON COLLECTOR CULTURE, THE QUESTION THEN BECOMES ‘WHEN WILL THE BUBBLE POP’?

YOU GET ICONIC LOOKS WITH MODERN TECH, INCREASED POWER, UP-TO-DATE HANDLING AND GREATER RELIABILITY

NEXT TIME YOU FIND YOURSELF IN AN ONLINE LOBBY OF HORRORS, REMEMBER SOME OF THE BEST CAN FALL VICTIM TO THE RED MIST

IF MY MATE CUT OUT THE MIDDLEMAN AND PUMPED THE 550% PROOF MOONSHINE INTO THE TANK, HE WOULD UNLEASH MORE POWER THAN HE COULD IMAGINE

MX-5 ROADSTER COUPE • Limited-run Mazda coupe culled before its time