The Mitsubishi Outlander is an excellent-value seven-seat family vehicle with plenty of features and capability. It looks modern and tough, but you need to know if it’s going to be good enough compared with other medium SUVs.
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If you have lots of kids, including twins or even triplets on the way, the Kia Carnival is the best possible family vehicle for you. It’s a smart, luxurious and highly practical workhorse that also offers excellent value.
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If you need an affordable and extremely good value dual-cab diesel ute with all the features and good-enough performance for a wide range of work, the KGM Musso (nee SsangYong) offers insane bang for your buck. But there’s a big caveat to your long-term ownership…
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Price is likely your biggest obstacle before stepping up to buy an electric vehicle. So MG has set a market-low price on its new MG4. Here’s what you need to know about MG4, and how to get one for under $140 per week!
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The Hilux is more than just an immensely popular 4X4 dual-cab ute here in Australia, it’s an icon. Toyota Hilux offers reliability, towing, good resale value and occasional family duties.
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The D-Max promises reliability and grunt for towing, touring and off-road adventures. But here are the definitive, balanced reasons an Isuzu D-Max is a paradoxically good idea and also a potentially regrettable one…
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Just because a ute is cheap, that doesn’t mean it’s worth the money. Is the GWM Cannon more than just a cut-price Ranger wannabe? Can it offer towing, off-roading capability and robust design to compete with the big brand dual-cab utes like Hilux and Triton?
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The Ford Ranger is the most popular vehicle in this country because it has grunt, great towing ability, a capable drive system, and a host of clever design features. But there are a couple of negatives to consider before dropping your cash on one.
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The Triton is a 4x4 ute that offers excellent value, benchmark towing capacity and off-road capability that puts more expensive utes to shame. Here’s what you need to know about Mitsubishi’s tougher, smarter, comfier pick-up.
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The Mazda BT-50 is more than just an Isuzu D-MAX clone. It can tow, carry and transport with relative ease, but it’s also great value and offers a premium interior - for a ute.
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The all-new Kia Tasman 4X4 dual-cab ute is finally on sale in Australia, offering some compelling value in its lower model grades and some serious off-roading potential in top-spec. Let’s see if it’s a worthy Ranger, Hilux and Triton rival - or a respectable first try.
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Kia Sportage is an excellent-value medium SUV that can handle both family duties in the suburbs and regional holiday travel. This affordable, reliable and well-equipped five-seater is very comfortable, safe to drive every day on Aussie roads - and now comes in hybrid.
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The futuristically styled Kona offers choice of engines, good safety and makes a strong case for small families needing options, reliability and quality at the right price. There’s even an electric or hybrid to consider.
The new soft-roading Subaru Forester now offers a proper hybrid all-wheel drive that packs more punch. Forester is one of the safest, most practicaland reliable SUVs on sale today and retains its strong value as an adventurous, capable and popular five-seater. Here’s what you need to know…
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The soft-roading ‘SJ’ series Subaru Forester packs a punch, and is one of the safest, most practical and capable medium SUVs on sale today. It’s also a great value, nicely driving and popular five-seater.
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The Haval H6 is an affordable medium SUVs that will make buying your next new family car easier thanks to its compelling pricing and suite of features compared with established brands. But there are a few compromises you’ll have to make, depending on how you intend to use it…
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The new LandCruiser Prado is retro-styled and the most modern vehicle in Toyota’s range. It offers versatility, off-road pedigree and towing grunt, but it’s also the most expensive it’s ever been, and it’s not entirely justified.
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The GWM Cannon Alpha plug-in hybrid is the ute catching every other ute brand napping in the Australian market. It’s innovative, full of clever design and has bucketloads of grunt for towing, load-carrying, touring and off-roading. It’ll leave a turbo-diesel Hilux for dead, and leave you with change, unlike Ford Ranger.
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The plug-in hybrid Jaecoo J7 is a promising medium SUV for families in 2025 from a new Chinese brands starting in Australia. Here’s what you need to know about this interesting, high-value midsize upstart.
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If you want one of the best driving, most luxurious and surprisingly capable five-seat SUVs in the market, don’t shop with the elite rip-off brands…
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