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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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In the very near future, no one will be ugly, bored, or, sadly, employed, and if technology can manage all

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BYD Seal
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Australia’s new electric vehicle king? BYD Seal pricing undercuts Tesla Model 3 by more than $10k!

October 17, 2023November 6, 2023 Stephen Corby 10281 Views

Is this the car to finally break Tesla’s stranglehold on the electric-car market in Australia? The folks at EVDirect and

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BYD ute patent appears
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2024 BYD dual-cab ute leaks: All-new Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger rival takes shape in new patent images

October 16, 2023October 31, 2023 Stephen Corby 4382 Views BYD ute

The first images of BYD’s incoming dual-cab ute have appeared in China, with local media digging up new patent images

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The MG4 XPower
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“Supercar performance”: MG4 XPower hot hatch undercuts Kia EV6 GT and Tesla Model 3 in Australia

October 5, 2023November 6, 2023 Stephen Corby 5360 Views australia, ev, MG4 XPOWER

The MG4 XPower electric hot hatch has been priced at an ultra-competitive $59,990 in Australia, leaving its rivals from Kia,

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 Epiq
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Chinese catch-up: How Hyundai will chase down BYD, MG and GWM with cheaper electric vehicles in Australia

September 30, 2023September 29, 2023 Stephen Corby 5112 Views australia, electric vehicle, Hyundai

Hyundai Australia says it has electric vehicles in its pipeline that will help lower the price gap between it and

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Maeving RM1 electric motorcycle
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Can electric motorcycles make scooters cool and is it time to get on your bike?

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 Stephen Corby 5263 Views electric motorcycle, electric scooter, ev, Maeving

There are too many problems with mopeds, scooters and whatever else you want to call those pseudo motorcycles ridden by

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Hyundai Ioniq 5 N
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2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N production to kick off in November as 126 people join the queue for high-performance EV

September 26, 2023September 26, 2023 Stephen Corby 4032 Views australia, Hyundai, ioniq 5 n

Hyundai’s most expensive vehicle in Australia, and the N sub-brand’s first high-performance EV, will go into production in November, with

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The Fiat 500e is cute as a button
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2024 Fiat 500e review: Is this pint-sized electric vehicle worth the price premium over the GWM Ora and MG4 Excite?

September 22, 2023September 21, 2023 Stephen Corby 4879 Views Fiat 500e

Obviously, I brought this on myself, but looking at how gorgeously cuddlish the new Fiat 500e is, perhaps you should

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Why can’t electric vehicles be sexy?

September 10, 2023September 16, 2023 Stephen Corby 4132 Views

Do all electric cars have to look ugly, or just dull, smooth-egg like and boring?  I’d like you to name

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The 2024 Lexus LBX
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2024 Lexus LBX confirmed: Bite-sized, budget-friendly hybrid could change the premium game in Australia

September 6, 2023September 6, 2023 Stephen Corby 6285 Views Lexus LBX

Lexus’ smallest and most affordable model ever has been confirmed for Australia, with the Toyota Yaris Cross-based LBX to touch

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