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Articles by Stephen Corby

Stephen Corby
Stephen Corby

Stephen Corby is Australia’s most adored, revered and award motoring journalist, at least if you ask his Mum, and has been writing for print and online publications in Australia and around the world for more than 30 years, which makes him older than the idea of electric vehicles.

Or at very least, he’s been around for so long that he can remember people laughing about EVs and using phrases like “this will never catch on” and “who’s going to drive that, the Duracell bunny?”
Indeed, his first experience of driving an electric car – the truly forgettable Mitsubishi I MiEV – was so painfully underwhelming that if you’d told him at at the time he’d one day be working for a website called EVcentral.com.au he’d have laughed his head off, before asking you what the hell a website was.
Stephen gets a hard time from his colleagues and random members of the public for only driving very expensive super cars, but his argument is that no man’s Instagram feed (@stephencorby) is a realistic expression of his actual life.
In a career that has spanned almost every continent (and he’ll damn well get to South America eventually), Stephen has driven on deserts in Mongolia, race tracks in South Africa, snow and ice in Austria, public monuments in Prague, cliff edges in Scotland and across a staggering amount of Australia.
In that time he has worked for Car and Driver and The Washington Times in the US, the Evening Standard and Daily Mail in London as well as the venerable and hugely respected Autocar Magazine and the widely loved Top Gear UK magazine
In Australia has previously been the editor of both Wheels Magazine and Top Gear magazine and was a Car of the Year judge at both publications.
Stephen is also regularly published in The Robb Report where he is also the lone Car of the Year judge, CEO Magazine, Wish Magazine in The Australian newspaper and The Australian online.
He also has a weekly column in The Weekend Australian Magazine.
Stephen also writes for mainstream motoring sites including https://www.carsales.com.au and https://www.carsguide.com.au.
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November 22, 2025November 22, 2025 Stephen Corby 1363 Views 0 Comments Atto 2, BYD, BYD Atto 2

BYD’s new Atto 2 might not look remarkable from a distance – indeed it looks like a design that might

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Audi Q4 55 e-tron quattro Review: Perfectly nice, but is that gonna cut it against a vast number of cheaper and more interesting rivals?

November 15, 2025November 14, 2025 Stephen Corby 2019 Views 0 Comments Audi, Audi Q4 e-tron 55, Q4 e-tron 55

The problem with Audi’s curvaceous, attractive and non-threatening, Boomer-friendly new EV, the Audi Q4 55 e-tron quattro, is not the

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2026 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy HEV Review: Can Hyundai’s new hybrid system really turn this huge SUV into a fuel-miser? Corby is sceptical

November 6, 2025November 6, 2025 Stephen Corby 2648 Views 2 Comments Hyundai, Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy HEV, Palisade Calligraphy HEV

Truly, you don’t need to dive into the demographics or scrape through the sales figures to know that sentiment is

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Hyundai electrified ute accelerates: “Mind blowing” range extender to take on BYD Shark 6 by 2028

November 4, 2025November 4, 2025 Stephen Corby 13961 Views 1 Comment Hyundai, Hyundai range extender ute, Hyundai ute

Hyundai will be bringing a ute powered by an entirely new and “mind blowing” form of hybrid system to the

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I really and honestly can’t decide whether to be delighted or desperately worried about this, but a serious heavy hitter

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Mazda gets serious about EVs in Australia: 2026 Mazda 6e electric sedan to launch by mid-year priced under Tesla Model 3

October 24, 2025October 25, 2025 Stephen Corby 18795 Views 6e, mazda, Mazda 6e EV

Mazda is set to launch its first serious attempt at an electric vehicle for the Australian market in the unusual

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September 22, 2025September 21, 2025 Stephen Corby 15922 Views 7X, Zeekr, Zeekr 7X Review

No-one gets it right first time. George Lucas’s debut movie was pants, Nirvana’s first album was like drinking Bleach through

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September 21, 2025September 20, 2025 Stephen Corby 7149 Views Climate Crisis, EV purchase

One of the problems with communicating and combatting climate change is that it feels immediate and yet far away at

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Tesla’s Full Self Driving launching in Australia should have you quaking in your car boot | Opinion

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If you’re not a tech bro, an amateur nerd or a Tesla lover, you might find the revelation that the

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2025 Savic Motorcycles C-Series Alpha Review: Aussie brand electrifies bike world

August 30, 2025September 2, 2025 Stephen Corby 5861 Views C-Series, Savic

Is it possible to make an electric motorcycle that doesn’t suck, or at least one that a bike enthusiast (or

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