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Kia recalls 11,000 vehicles in Australia, including Tasman, Sportage and Carnival

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The software fault could the instrument cluster to go blank or not operate “as intended”, causing the speed or warning light to not display, according to the recall notice. Kia Australia has recalled 11,567 vehicles manufactured in 2025, citing a potential fault with the digital instrument cluster displaying a blank screen or not operating “as intended”. The affected vehicles include the Carnival , EV3 , EV5 , EV6 , EV9 , Sorento , Sportage and Tasman , and were stamped 2025 models, but may have been sold at a later date. The recall notice , lodged with the Department of Infrastructure, says: “Due to a software error, the Instrument Cluster may display a blank screen or may not operate as intended. “A blank or slow-responding instrument cluster screen fails to display critical information such as the speedometer or warning lights increasing the risk of an accident causing injury or death to vehicle occupants and/or other road users. Date of recall notice 6 March, 2026...
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Toyota 4Runner spied testing in Australia – by Ford, not Toyota

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Ford Australia engineers have been caught conducting evaluation testing of the left-hand-drive-only Toyota 4Runner off-road SUV on Melbourne roads. Image credit: Prado 250 Series Owners Page Australia The Toyota 4Runner off-road SUV has been spied undergoing evaluation testing in Melbourne – but the brand has confirmed it isn’t involved with the car’s surprise appearance in Australia. Instead, the spied 4Runner appears to be undergoing benchmarking by Ford Australia, which told Drive its Melbourne-based design and engineering team evaluates a “wide range of vehicles from both local and international markets”. Shared in a now-deleted post by a member of the Prado 250 Series Owners Page Australia Facebook group, the 4Runner was spied in the northern Melbourne suburb of Thomastown. A Toyota Australia spokesperson told Drive the left-hand drive 4Runner ‘engineering evaluation vehicle’ spotted in Australia is “not being evaluated” by the company. MORE: 2025 Toyota 4Runner...
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Electric car sales in February were almost double that of 2025 results

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EV sales are up, way up in fact, for February with a 95 per cent increase compared to last year. 2026 Tesla Model Y Sales of electric vehicles in Australia during February this year almost doubled those of February 2025. Sales of electric vehicles were up a massive 95.9 per cent for February 2026, and year-to-date sales for the first two months of the year increased 94.9 per cent. With 11,134 EVs sold in February, compared to 5684 in 2025, and year-to-date sales of 18,543, versus 9516 last year, the segment is off to a strong start. The EV results are an anomaly compared to the overall industry trend, where sales for Feb across all fuel types and model segments dropped 4.5 per cent, and YTD sales declined 2.2 per cent. MORE: ‘Cheaper to write-off’ – the most popular electric cars insured in Australia 2026 Tesla Model Y The increase is driven by sales boosts for popular models. The popular Tesla Model Y medium SUV boasts a 121.7 per cent increase over this...
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Honda to revive the Insight for the fourth time, as an electric SUV

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From a pioneering hybrid coupe to a generic electric crossover EV, the Honda Insight has had more comebacks than The Rolling Stones over its four generations. The Honda Insight will return to Japanese showrooms, marking a new chapter for the nameplate. From its introduction in 1999 and across its first three generations, the Insight has been powered by a petrol-electric hybrid powertrain . Now, the fourth-generation Insight moves away from both its hybrid origins and its form factor as a traditional passenger car. The 2026 Honda Insight will instead be a medium SUV, slightly longer than the current Honda CR-V . MORE: 2026 Honda ZR-V updates for Australia previewed by Japan The change marks a step-up in size, with the second- and third-generation Insights being sized closer to the Civic hatch. The Insight measures 4787mm long, 1838mm wide, and 1570mm tall, with a 2735mm wheelbase. A CR-V, meanwhile, is around 79mm shorter, 28mm wider, 121mm taller, with a wheelbas...
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F1 Australian Grand Prix crowds break Melbourne records – again

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Close to half a million fans visited Albert Park over the four-day event in 2026, but the all-time Australian Grand Prix record – irrespective of city – remains in place after 31 years. Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images More than 480,000 fans walked through the gates of the 2026 Formula One Australian Grand Prix across four days, in the fifth consecutive record for the event in its Melbourne history. The “estimated” attendance of 483,934 reported for the 2026 event is short of the all-time Australian Grand Prix record of approximately 520,000, set in 1995, its final year in Adelaide. Record numbers of fans passed through the gates on Thursday – when there was no Formula One on track, beating the previous record of 77,400 attendees in 2005 – and Friday. Saturday and Sunday saw the second-highest attendance on record, according to the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, with the all-time race-day high for the Albert Park event remaining a claimed 154,000 fans in 1996 . MOR...
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Latest mobile phone and seatbelt detection camera locations for Melbourne and Victoria: March 2026 mapped

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This map shows the 339 locations Victoria Police can place their mobile phone and seatbelt detection cameras in March 2026. While mobile phone and seatbelt detection camera positions can vary month to month in Victoria, police are obliged to publish the potential locations for public transparency. Mobile phone and seatbelt detection cameras are mounted high up on portable trailers and photograph drivers from above as they pass. The cameras detect if the driver is using a mobile device illegally, or failing to wear their seatbelt legally. The map below shows mobile traffic cameras in their latest approved locations around Victoria. March mobile phone and seatbelt detection camera locations Victoria Hover your mouse over, or tap, the red symbols to see more information about each camera’s location and reason for its potential placement. These spots are not just picked at random, with various justifications used by Victoria Police: Documented history of collisions or roa...
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Mazda built a V6 MX-5, but canned the project

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Mazda’s ethos of a simple, lightweight sports car doesn’t always hit the right notes with the ‘more power’ crowd. A V6 could have fixed that. A version of the Mazda MX-5 with V6 power was considered and prototyped, but ultimately shelved. The exploration of a more powerful MX-5 was confirmed by Mazda’s current European director of research and operations, Christian Schultze. The MX-5 has a strong enthusiast following, so aftermarket conversions to V6 or even V8 power aren’t unheard of, but Mazda apparently considered its own factory-built hot-rod V6 version. In an interview with Dutch publication AutoRAI.nl , Schultze discussed the possibility of a larger engine for the MX-5, before revealing that it was a project Mazda had toyed with previously. MORE: Next Mazda MX-5 – first details, release date of new-gen sports car – report “We already tried something like this about twenty years ago,”  Schultze revealed. “Back then, our engineers built a prototyp...
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