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.

Andy Enright

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

02 CUPRA’S AUSTRALIAN ASSAULT • Our local performance landscape is about to expand

03 CLUTCH PERFORMANCE • From no clutch to fake clutch: how Ford and Toyota could change the manual gearbox as we know it

04 CHEAP & CHEERFUL • MOTOR’s YouTube features some cut-price heroes. Mainly.

the Tribe • WIN THIS NEXT MONTH! MOTOR MAGAZINE PRIZE PACK Yes, you can win a year’s subscription to MOTOR but we make you work for it. We’re curious souls and would like to hear stories of cars being driven into water. Preferably the sea. We’ll pick the best story and you’ll be sorted with the world’s best performance car magazine (MOTOR). We’ll even pay postage. So get to it and make it good/moist.

On The Wires

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

MOTOR Magazine Australia

FINDING A LOT IN LIFE • Andre Lotterer is a part of an exclusive club as a factory Porsche open-wheel racer, but the endurance veteran still has plenty to prove

FERRARI 296 GTB • Pivotal and potent; a new era for Maranello

BMW M4 CONVERTIBLE • Has a haircut relegated M Division’s corner carver to a coastal cruiser?

PORSCHE 911 TURBO CABRIOLET • Lose the roof, lose the point? Kirby reckons not

ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE F1 EDITION • The Vantage finally finds its teeth

WHEN FERRARI JUST DOESN’T DO IT FOR YOU • WE TRACK-TEST BOTH THE ROAD AND RACE VERSIONS OF THE NEW GLICKENHAUS SCG 004 HYPERCAR – BUILT FOR AN APPETITE THAT MARANELLO COULDN’T SATISFY

TAYCAN TROPHY • WILL PORSCHE’S ELECTRIC POWER WAGON SURVIVE A SODDEN MOTORSPORT GHOST TOUR? LET’S FIND OUT

WHEN WE WERE KINGS • THE NISSAN R35 GT-R AND THE AUDI R8 SCORED THE ONLY DEAD HEAT IN MOTOR’S PCOTY HISTORY. NOW THEY’RE BOWING OUT OF THE AUSSIE MARKET TOGETHER

TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS • WE EXAMINE 10 CONTEMPORARY PIECES OF TECH THAT SHIFTED THE METER IN THE PERFORMANCE CAR WORLD

TRACK GUIDE • SANDOWN RACEWAY

Sandown Raceway makes the world stage

Sweet Dream • CARS THAT DON’T EXIST, BUT SHOULD

BACK SECTION. SWEET DREAM • THE MC20 TROFEO GAINS SIGNIFICANT AERODYNAMIC ADDENDA, WITH THE CAR PRODUCING 400KG OF DOWNFORCE AT 200KM/H

RENAULT MEGANE R.S. • WONDERING WHERE THE VALUE IS IN THE USED SPORTS MARKET? CHECK OUT RENAULT’S RANGE OF HUMP-BACKED HOTTIES

Turbines, rotaries, and the little engine that might • Modern jet turbine technology could revive the rotary engine with a micro package and macro power output. Here’s how it works

Cool Kit

BIG MAC WITH THE LOT • Our long-term fleet gains the doors of a billionaire … and 530kW

INNER PURSUIT • Is a stretch of the Hume Highway the missing link?

BAJA FRESH • Is the Raptor X’s Baja mode a gimmick or something genuinely useful?

PACK AND SEND • The Kona N raises questions that Alex Affat struggles to answer

THE RIGHT FIT? • Driver comfort doesn’t apply to all shapes and sizes

Hot Source • THE FAST GUIDE TO QUICK CARS

ROLLING START • Signs of life after end-of-year dip

PIPELINE HOT STUFF COMING SOON

Trent Giunco • SEEING A SUPERCAR STILL DOING THE PRESS ROUNDS WITH 12,000KM ON THE CLOCK IS AN ODDITY

Alex Affat • THE UPTAKE FOR MANUAL BMW F80...