BYD's rapid rise in Australia has reached another milestone. The Chinese car giant has confirmed it is developing a model specifically for Australian buyers, a move that says just as much about the market as it does about the car itself.
While the Europe-focused Dolphin G plug-in hybrid will not be coming here for now, BYD executives have revealed that something tailored for local customers is on the way later this year.
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BYD Thinks Australia Is Important Enough To Get Its Own Car
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Polestar Drops Australia’s Next Great Wagon Wearing An SUV Badge
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Polestar has revealed the 2027 Polestar 4 SUV, a taller and more practical second body style for its best-selling model, and it arrives with the one thing the original was defined by not having. The rear window is back, along with a conventional rear-view mirror as standard. The camera-based digital mirror used in the coupe remains available as an option.
Australian pricing starts at $73,900 before on-road costs for the rear-motor version and $81,750 for the dual-motor, which places the 4 SUV $
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Sky Sport NZ Cops A Roasting For Playing A Gambling Ad Over Jai Arrow’s Final Walk Out
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Jai Arrow walked out for his 100th and final NRL game on Friday night, flanked by a guard of honour of more than 100 Souths old boys, with You'll Never Walk Alone ringing around the ground and most of the stadium in tears. New Zealand viewers got about three seconds of it before Sky Sport cut away to a gambling ad.
The ad was for Betcha, and it ran for one minute and 20 seconds. By the time live coverage returned, Arrow was already on the field and the moment had come and gone.
Arrow, 31, annou
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The Socceroos’ Head of Performance Reveals What Actually Happens 100 Minutes Before Kick-Off
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Leigh Egger works in the hour and forty minutes nobody televises. The change room, before the whistle, where the gap between a good performance and a great one has usually already been decided.
Egger is Head of Performance for the Socceroos, brought in by Tony Popovic in late 2024 and responsible for the physical side of Australia's 2026 World Cup campaign. Before that, five years running high performance at Feyenoord Rotterdam under Arne Slot. He has also consulted to the Charlotte Hornets, th
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Roger Federer’s Hall Of Fame Speech Is Breaking Grown Men Everywhere
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Roger Federer walked onto the grass horseshoe court at Newport on Saturday evening in a tan suit, kissed his wife Mirka after she had just introduced him, and worked out immediately that he was in trouble. “Oh man,” he said. “This is very high level and a tough act to follow.”
He then spent the better part of half an hour losing the fight against his own tear ducts.
The 45-year-old was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame alongside broadcaster and former p
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At 30, Tom Holland Is Now The Highest-Grossing Male Actor In History
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Tom Holland has just become the third highest-grossing actor in film history. Only Scarlett Johansson in second and Zoe Saldaña in first sit above him, which makes Holland the highest-grossing male actor of all time, and at 30, the youngest name in the top 10.
The jump came off the back of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which topped the box office again this past weekend and has now taken more than $2.25 billion worldwide. That puts it sixth on the all-time list and it is still in cinemas. C
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Marta Kostyuk Just Played A US Open Match In A Patek Philippe Aquanaut
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The Ukrainian world No. 11 won her opening round in New York with a diamond-set Aquanaut Luce on her wrist. Almost nobody in tennis does this.
Watch spotter @niccoloy clocked it first, and once you see it you cannot unsee it. Marta Kostyuk played and won her first-round match at the US Open with a Patek Philippe Aquanaut Luce strapped to her left wrist, blue dial, blue composite strap, diamond bezel and all.
The 11th seed took out Australia's Storm Hunter 6-4, 6-1 in a bit over an hour. She did
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The Best Father’s Day Gift To Score In 2026
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Father's Day lands on Sunday 6 September, which gives you a bit over a week. Thirty-three gifts below, sorted by the dad you are actually buying for. There are watches from thirty-nine dollars to seventeen grand, fragrance that is not another aquatic, and a Federer tribute racket for the tennis obsessive. There is a screenless tracker for the man who refuses a second watch, and a box of doughnuts for anyone who left this until Saturday.
The WatchesGrand Seiko SLGB023 Ushio 300
The smallest dive
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Roger Federer Wore The Loudest Rolex In The Catalogue To His US Open Homecoming
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Roger Federer returned to Arthur Ashe Stadium for the first time since 2019, and he did it wearing the loudest watch Rolex has put in a shop window all year.
The Swiss is playing a US Open Fan Week exhibition at Flushing Meadows on August 25, a one-set singles match against Andy Roddick followed by doubles alongside John McEnroe against Roddick and Andre Agassi. It is his first appearance at the venue since a five-set quarter-final loss to Grigor Dimitrov seven years ago, and it comes four days
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It Took Four Decades, But Patek Philippe Finally Has An Australian Boutique
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Patek Philippe has opened its first standalone boutique in Australia. The Hour Glass unveiled the store at 388 George Street in Sydney on 25 August, on the corner of George and King.
It's taken a while. The Hour Glass has sold Patek here for close to four decades through multi-brand salons on King Street and Collins Street, but nobody has ever given the brand its own front door in this country.
The site is bigger in scope than a watch shop. Alongside the gallery and private consultation rooms,
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Rolex Just Turned Second-Hand Watches Into A $385 Million Business
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When Rolex launched its certified pre-owned program in late 2022, the industry split down the middle. One camp saw a brand finally acknowledging that resale existed. The other assumed Rolex was about to eat its own lunch, competing with grey dealers on price and cannibalising demand for new watches in the process.
Four years on, that argument is over. According to EveryWatch's latest secondary market report, Rolex Certified Pre-Owned sales grew 101% in the first half of 2026 to USD $385 million
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A Retired Australian Drove His $600,000 McLaren 16,000kms Around Australia… Literally Around The Whole Country
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Edward Ho arrived in Australia in 1972. He finished Year 12, earned an electrical engineering degree, spent a few years in the family business, realised it wasn't for him, and went back to engineering for about 11 years.
"In the early 1990s, I had the opportunity to start a business in the IT industry, just as the sector was beginning to grow rapidly," he says. "Looking back, the timing couldn't have been better."
He built it into an IT hardware distribution company selling PCs, notebooks and t
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We Compared a Wise Travel Card Against a NAB Debit Card on Holiday; The Results Were Surprising
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This story was purely on my own whim. Not paid. I took a Wise card and a NAB Visa debit card to Bali for ten days to see which one cost me less. The results were a little shocking.
I assumed the difference would be the exchange rate. It wasn't. The rates were the same. Out by a cent or two on a coffee, nothing more. The difference showed up two days later, when the NAB fees started appearing in the app.
A gelato at Ettore in Pererenan. Fifty thousand rupiah, about four dollars. NAB converted it
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We Compared a Wise Travel Card Against a NAB Bank Card On Holiday; The Results Were Surprising
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This story was purely on my own whim. Not paid. I took a Wise card and a NAB Visa debit card to Bali for ten days to see which one cost me less. The results were a little shocking.
I assumed the difference would be the exchange rate. It wasn't. The rates were the same. Out by a cent or two on a coffee, nothing more. The difference showed up two days later, when the NAB fees started appearing in the app.
A gelato at Ettore in Pererenan. Fifty thousand rupiah, about four dollars. NAB converted it
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Every Car Brand Wants A Fashion Collab, Now China Has Joined The Party
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IM Motors has handed the keys to Jimmy Choo. The Shanghai brand has named the shoemaker bespoke design master of its L6 electric sedan, which gets you a faceted crystal badge, crystal camera covers, mother-of-pearl inlay work and a cabin trimmed in Haute Couture Blue pearlescent leather, the blue being a nod to the satin heels Choo made for Diana, Princess of Wales.First batch is capped at 1,000 cars and it is China only. We get the L6 here as the MG IM5.
My first instinct was to bin it. Then I
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The $150 Nike Shoe Everyone Wants But Nobody Is Running In
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We were down in Bondi early this morning, which isn't unusual for the DMARGE team, except we weren't there for the water.
Nike had the new Mind 001 colourway out on show ahead of tomorrow's drop, and the entire idea behind it is a shoe you're not supposed to play sport in. It's a $150 mule built for the hour before the whistle rather than the ninety minutes after.
The Mind 001 came out of Nike's Mind Science department and went global back in January. It did se
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The $150 Nike Shoe Everyone In Bondi Wants, But Nobody Is Running In
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This feature was sponsored by NikeWe were down in Bondi early this morning, which isn't unusual for the DMARGE team, except we weren't there for the water.
Nike had the new Mind 001 colourway out on show ahead of tomorrow's drop, and the entire idea behind it is a shoe you're not supposed to play sport in. It's a $150 mule built for the hour before the whistle rather than the ninety minutes after.
The Mind 001 came out of Nike's Mind Science department and went global back in January. It did se
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Mercedes-Benz Just Revealed Its Latest Wagon And It’s Deeeelightful
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I have a dog, a couple of boards and a permanent low-grade resentment about the fact that this country decided, somewhere around 2014, that the only acceptable shape for a family car was a two-tonne SUV with a nose like a filing cabinet. So when Mercedes-Benz rolls out a facelifted C-Class and puts the wagon in the studio shot, standing there in Sky Grey looking like it knows exactly what it's doing, I take it personally.Because it is genuinely lovely. And because we're probably not getting it.
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Bali Gyms Are A Game Of Wealthy One-Upmanship That’s Shaping Global Fitness Trends
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The first time I came to Canggu, there were two gyms. Not two good ones. Just two. Dua.
Canggu barely existed in the form people now book flights for. There was no supplement shop on every corner, no Openhouse, no recovery menu, and the idea of a fitness venue you might spend an entire day inside would have sounded like a joke.
There are now more than fifteen across Canggu, Pererenan and Seseh, and most opened in the last three years. The number is not the story. The story is what happened to t
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Bali Gyms Are A Game Of One-Upmanship That’s Shaping Global Fitness Trends
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The first time I came to Canggu, there were two gyms. Not two good ones. Just two. Dua.
Canggu barely existed in the form people now book flights for. There was no supplement shop on every corner, no Openhouse, no recovery menu, and the idea of a fitness venue you might spend an entire day inside would have sounded like a joke.
There are now more than fifteen across Canggu, Pererenan and Seseh, and most opened in the last three years. The number is not the story. The story is what happened to t
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Bali Gyms & Wellness Clubs Are A Game Of One-Upmanship That’s Shaping Global Fitness Trends
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The first time I came to Canggu, there were two gyms. Not two good ones. Just two. Dua.
Canggu barely existed in the form people now book flights for. There was no supplement shop on every corner, no Openhouse, no recovery menu, and the idea of a fitness venue you might spend an entire day inside would have sounded like a joke.
There are now more than fifteen across Canggu, Pererenan and Seseh, and most opened in the last three years. The number is not the story. The story is what happened to t
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Bali Gyms & Health Clubs Are A Game Of One-Upmanship That’s Shaping Global Fitness Trends
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The first time I came to Canggu, there were two gyms. Not two good ones. Just two. Dua.
Canggu barely existed in the form people now book flights for. There was no supplement shop on every corner, no Openhouse, no recovery menu, and the idea of a fitness venue you might spend an entire day inside would have sounded like a joke.
There are now more than fifteen across Canggu, Pererenan and Seseh, and most opened in the last three years. The number is not the story. The story is what happened to t
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Only 10 Australians Will Get This Cupra, And The Rest Get The Consolation Prize
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Cupra Australia has opened orders on two special versions of the Terramar VZ, and one of them is capped at 10 cars for the entire country. The Tribe Edition Green gets an exclusive Manganese Matte green finish, sulfur green highlights through the 20-inch alloys and a build number small enough that most people will never see one in traffic.
The black car is the one most buyers will actually get. Cupra is bringing in 35 of those, finished in Midnight Black with 20-inch black gravity alloys and da
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Tourists Watched 913 Cars Park And One Luxury Badge Kept Getting It Wrong… But Not By Much
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A new study has put hard numbers on the most reliable argument in any car park, and Mercedes drivers have come out of it badly. Research by global car rental comparison site DiscoverCars.com found that 25 per cent of Mercedes were parked incorrectly, the highest rate of any brand observed.
Citroen came second on 24.4 per cent, which quietly ruins the theory that this is purely a luxury car problem. BMW landed third on 21.7 per cent, though not a single BMW was found parked in a disabled bay wit
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Business Class From $269 In The Biggest Qantas Sale Of The Year
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Qantas has launched its biggest domestic sale of the year, with more than two million discounted Economy and Business seats across 101 routes and 60 destinations. It went live at 12.01am AEST this morning and closes at 11.59pm AEST on Tuesday 25 August, unless the seats go first.
Economy starts at $99 one way. Sydney to the Gold Coast, Melbourne to Adelaide, Melbourne to Launceston, Cairns to Townsville, Sydney to Dubbo, Brisbane to Hervey Bay and Adelaide to Kangaroo Island all sit at that ent
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Drake Just Scored The Rarest Rolex In The World
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Drake owns something in the region of 140 watches, and a serious chunk of them wear a crown. Most of those you could theoretically buy tomorrow if you had the money and the relationship. This one you could not.
He posted a carousel showing a Cosmograph Daytona described as a 1 of 1, built for Drake, running a graduated blue sapphire setting and nicknamed the "Ice Gradient". Flip it over and the caseback is engraved with the words "Freeze The World".
If that phrase rings a bell, it should. It is
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McLaren Just Did The One Thing Ferrari And Lamborghini Won’t
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Every supercar brand spent the last decade telling us the manual gearbox was dead. Slower, heavier, less efficient, an emotional indulgence that no longer made engineering sense. McLaren has just called the whole thing off.
The McL 6GT landed at Monterey Car Week overnight as a concept, and buried in the spec sheet is the detail that matters most: an authentic manual transmission driving the rear wheels. It is the first proper three-pedal McLaren since the F1 in 1992.
The Car Bruce McLaren Neve
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I Got Busted By Police In Bali, You’ll Never Guess How I Paid The Fine
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I have been riding scooters around Bali for twenty years. Sometimes with a helmet, mostly without, which is nobody's fault but mine.
In all that time I had never once been pulled over, which given how much time Australian men now spend in Bali is either luck or a statistical miracle. Twelve hours into this trip, on a main road I could not name if you paid me, my perfect record went in the bin.
The officer waved me across, looked at my bare head with the weariness of a man who has seen a thousan
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Only Bell & Ross Could Create This, And That Is Exactly Why You Want One
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Bruno Belamich, Bell & Ross Co-Founder & Creative Director, was staring at a seconds hand doing its endless lap of a dial and realised it looked exactly like a rotor coming up to speed. That is the entire origin story of the BR-03 Helipad, and it is a rare case of a watch idea being both completely obvious in hindsight and genuinely new.
The result is a 41mm black ceramic square with a helicopter hovering permanently above a landing pad. The hours come from a rotating black disc marked
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Nike Has Built An Entire Shoe System For The Fitness Trend Taking Over The World
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Nike has announced Nike Hybrid, a new performance footwear system built from the ground up for athletes who run, lift and throw themselves at a sled in the same session. It is the biggest signal yet that the world's largest sportswear brand is taking hybrid racing seriously.
Hybrid racing has gone from niche to everywhere in about three years. Events like Hyrox and Deka have turned the format into a global participation sport, and the gym floor has followed: run, lift, row, ski erg, repeat.
The
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