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Ladies-only Drive Days
Ladies-only Drive Days You want to trial a super-luxury car but a simple test drive just doesn’t cut it, right? Or perhaps you want to know how it feels to be behind the wheel of a race-ready performance vehicle going flat-out on a track that’s...
Car-Buying Concierge
Buying a car should be a delightful and exciting experience for anyone. After all, for many it will be the second most-expensive purchase after their home. But the reality of the process can be confronting, intimidating and downright unpleasant for women, which is bizarre given...
Hypercars evolve as same, same but different
I think most of us can agree that evolution is a pretty good theory. You might prefer to believe a divine entity created every living thing, all in a hurry, about 6000 years ago, in which case all power to you, even though you quite...
Lucid Motors ups the electric game on World EV Day
Australia's motoring history reached a new milestone in August 2020 when, for the first time ever, a petrol-electric hybrid was the number-one new vehicle sold over any month. OK, that car might have been a less-than-thrilling Toyota RAV4s, but what matters is that nine out...
COVID pressures lift used-car prices as supply wanes
Deborah Molina is a woman who goes after what she wants. Director of her own Melbourne-based interior design company, she decided about a year ago to create a side hustle as a DJ. She’s since gone live as “DJ Shawty” blending hip-hop and RNB rhythms,...
Madam Wheels appears on Channel Nine’s Today Extra program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnJgVfUcfwE Madam Wheels founder Jacquie Hayes speaks with Channel Nine reporter Susanne Gray about some of the inequalities women face in the car-buying equation and how they can overcome them to bag the best deal.
Audi surfs the RS wave with new high-performance Q8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIWeSfODSA When considering inspirational young women, we are spoilt for choice in Australia. Think world number-one tennis player Ashleigh Barty, national cricket and soccer star Ellyse Perry and teenage sailor Jessica Watson. Right up there with the best of them is champion surfer Stephanie Gilmore...
Porsche, Ferrari launch podcasts to relieve #iso fatigue
MADAM Wheels has taken hedonic pleasure to a whole new level with the launch of its Cars and Champagne Masterclasses, designed to enable guests to savour some of the world’s finest champagnes while checking out the latest and greatest cars available. Ferrari, Aston Martin, McLaren,...
Audi takes the sales pressure off with online car buying tool
COVID-19 has forced car brands to rethink the way they cater to car-buyers' needs, with Audi Australia announcing a timely and novel approach - take the car salesman out of the equation altogether. Audi has launched an online purchase platform across its full product range to tap...
Prestige cars get Covid boost amid declining new vehicle sales
Luxury car brands fared better than the weakening broader Australian car market last month when the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a 50 per cent drop in new-car sales compared to the same time last year. Australia’s peak automotive representative body says the 48.5 per cent...
It’s Wheels Down For Aston Martin’s SUV, The DBX
Shut the front door! It has arrived. Luxury British auto maker Aston Martin has finally unveiled the DBX, a first and mighty fine SUV addition to its luxury stable. Real Bond Girls of Australia prepare to be amazed as the DBX heralds a new era...
Lamborghini Huracán EVO a luxury sports car with brains
Madam Wheels has been accused of being unfairly critical of Lamborghini in the past, with ride comfort in the stiff-suspension vehicles a top-line issue. But that all changed with the introduction of the Raging-Bull brand’s first high-riding off-roader, the spectacular Urus. The “super” SUV seamlessly...