The Australian bazaar absent a abundant abounding cartage in 2021, and conceivably the losses that stung the best were those of the assorted enthusiast cartage discontinued.
The Alpine A110? Gone. Audi R8? Auf wiedersehen. Lexus RC F and Nissan GT-R? Sayonara!
It’s not surprising, then, to see the aggregation actuality at CarExpert cogent a addicted adieu to those cartage – additional a few more.
The Audi R8. This is still one of my favourite cars ever. In the apple of hybrids and affected induction, the actuality a naturally-aspirated V10 exists is remarkable. Abnormally one that sounds as acceptable as the Audi R8 does.
The abutting one is best acceptable activity to be absolutely electric, which is great, I’m a fan of electric cars (especially fast ones), but it aloof won’t be the same. And if you’re a speculator, conceivably now would be a acceptable time to snag one accustomed how abundant they’re attractive on the additional duke bazaar (you can acknowledge me later!).
The Audi R8. One of the best counterbalanced cars anytime made. An figure advancing to an end for our market.
Unfortunately, it’s a abstruse actuality that the Alpine A110 is one of the best best driver’s car’s anytime made. It’s abstruse not because it was too big-ticket (it’s beneath big-ticket and added alien than about all its rivals), but because so few were anytime imported.
This is a car that can accomplish a Porsche Cayman feel like a barter in the corners, and is a car so accessible to drive, your mother would feel adequate abaft the wheel. It’s a archetypal in the authoritative and conceivably one of the best advantageous sports cars I’ve apprenticed in the aftermost 15 years, appropriate up there with a new Porsche 911 GT3 in my honest opinion.
Read my analysis if you appetite to see what I’m banging on about.
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The Nissan GT-R isn’t aerial volume, and it’s not a decidedly accordant car to the majority of Australians.
It’s an figure though, and one that needn’t accept died Bottomward Under. The R35 is still accessible in Japan and New Zealand, and there’s no chat on back assembly will end. It aloof avalanche abhorrent of Australian Design Rules about structural candor in a ancillary appulse collision, acceptation Nissan Australia can’t accurately advertise it locally.
As cars become added homogenised, the angular GT-R is article different. We’re worse off for not accepting it on our shores.
New Australian Design Rules brought advanced the afterlife of the Lexus IS, CT and RC. The extreme nameplate is the one I’ll miss.
I bankrupt the keys to a blooming red Lexus RC F a few months ago, and re-acquainted myself with its august artlessly aspirated 351kW V8 – not decidedly quick accustomed the car’s heft, but that bankrupt agenda would deathwatch the dead.
It’s consistently sad bouncing adieu to a majestic dinosaur. Maybe I’ll nab a acclimated one some day.
I had to anticipate continued and adamantine about this, because we’ve apparent so abounding models adopted from our bazaar in the aftermost year or so. The Ford Focus advertisement absolutely stings, though.
Yes, we’re activity to abide accepting the Focus ST in 2022 and beyond, but I accept consistently had a bendable atom for the Focus – as a journo and as a above affiliate of the company’s comms aggregation – and the accepted abundance has consistently been criminally beneath appreciated.
The Focus was one of those cars that had its assignment cut out from the start. We never got the advanced ambit of appearance and options accessible in the UK and Europe, and the Australian accessible had been austere by the brand’s Powershift adventure that bedeviled previous-generation Focus and Fiesta models.
I’ve consistently advised the SA-generation Focus as one of the best baby cars on sale, to the point area I pushed my adolescent brother to buy one as his aboriginal car.
With brands like Ford absolutely blame the SUV movement, it’s consistently sad to see abundant articles dead off locally. RIP.
I’m sad to see the Chrysler 300 go for two reasons. One, it spells the end of the Chrysler brand, one that’s apparent its archetypal ambit compress over the years but which is set to get beginning electrified product. Two, it spells the end of yet addition rear-wheel drive, almost affordable auto – and one with an accessible V8 too!
Chrysler could accept done added to accumulate the 300 fresh, with alone a accessory facelift in 2015 back the second-generation archetypal debuted in 2011.
But admitting its age, it still looks glossy and it still makes a case for itself with that aureate SRT-8. After all, the Ford Mustang GT’s backseat is a bigger fit for accoutrements than humans, and a Kia Stinger GT doesn’t complete this good…
The Toyota Camry V6 is the classic, accustomed V6 sedan. Charge I say more?
I grew up with my ancestors owning a 1998 Mitsubishi Magna V6 and it was the best effortless country tourer, so V6 sedans accept a bendable atom in my heart.
It’s sad to see the Camry V6, with its dank 224kW/362Nm 3.5-litre naturally-aspirated six, leave us.
Now that it’s gone it feels like the end of an era. Toyota is acceleration bottomward on its amalgam technology as able-bodied as exploring constituent amalgam (PHEV), battery-electric (BEV), and hydrogen-powered vehicles.
For now if you appetite your six-cylinder auto fix, you’ll charge to attending against the Kia Stinger or Genesis G70, or accede added added big-ticket affluence offerings like the BMW M340i xDrive or the Mercedes-Benz C43 AMG.
Almost aggregate that got the axe because of the new ancillary appulse rules. Admitting the actuality it’s not the best-in-class, I accept a bendable atom for the new Lexus IS. The cast seems to accept nailed its administration brief, appropriate afore the about-face to a new accent and the EV era.
Oddly, I don’t accept the aforementioned animosity about the Mitsubishi Mirage, though.
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