THE real test of the beauty of any car, classic or modern, is the hot date test. So just imagine you’re about to go on the first outing with the man, woman or other of your dreams. You have spruced yourself up, hit the Old Spice or the 4711, put on your best frock, shaped t...

AS car lovers, what are our unconscious motivations and fantasies? In his wonderful 1987 book Driving Passion: The Psychology of the Car, the late Peter Marsh tells us “the car is not only a status symbol but often functions as a surrogate womb or as a means of self-express...

WHEN we announced the Porsche Macan as one of The Weekend Australian’s best cars of 2014 there was a tsunami of emails from readers in Hawthorn, Mosman, Hamilton and Peppermint Grove asking how we could have ignored that favoured Double Bay tractor, the Range Rover.