Articles by Mike Ryan

A bumper field of over 110 competitors are on their way to the northern Victorian town of Sea Lake for the 2012 Australian Off Road Championship (AORC) season opener, the 'MBL Sea Lake Mallee Rally', on the Queen's Birthday long weekend, June 8-10.

While it was a little more complicated than that, the Cruze was initially shown as a concept at the 1999 Tokyo motor show sporting a Chevrolet badge, being the result of collaboration between General Motors and Suzuki.

One of the big achievers in the automotive world Kia is assembling a giant- killing portfolio of vehicles that are winning accolades around the world.

Suzuki broke the shackles of being a small carmaker in July 2001 when it launched its largest ever model, the 4WD XL-7.

Launched here in 1983 the Mitsubishi Pajero was one of the catalysts driving the popularity of family four-wheel drive wagons.

Not surprisingly, the Feroza was not that dissimilar to the Suzuki Vitara. It was a compact three-door 4WD with similar dimensions.

Meanwhile a special edition all-wheel drive Santa Fe Trial is available priced at $35,590 for the manual and $41,590 for the auto+ORCs.

BMW will bolster its high-performance vehicle line-up with the arrival in June of its ground-breaking triple-turbo, diesel engine M Performance models, including the first ever M Performance versions of BMW's X5 and X6 models.

The third generation of Hyundai's popular Santa Fe has been revealed at the New York Auto Show, and will be on sale here later in the year.

The new Ssangyong Actyon Sports Dual Cab Ute is staking its claim as Australia's most fuel efficient dual cab ute, with the new 2.0-Litre e-XDi200 Active Diesel engine offering up to 12.65% better fuel economy and 10% more power than the previous model.

While probably not as well known as Ford's F-Series light duty trucks, Chevrolet's C-Series were part of an overall range that was significantly more successful.

Volkswagen has presented an extreme version of its Amarok utility.\n