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

August 30, 2025September 2, 2025 Stephen Corby 6009 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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Ford Universal EV platform. Dual Cab Ute.
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USA versus China: Ford’s revolutionary EV rollout takes key step towards Australian launch

August 27, 2025September 26, 2025 Stephen Corby 14014 Views Ford Universal EV

Fords much-hyped (and total US$5b) Universal EV Platform and the affordable electric vehicles it will spawn has taken its first

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2025 Cadillac Optiq.
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2025 Cadillac Optiq Review: This electric SUV is the most relevant Cadillac yet confirmed for Australia. It will be the cheapest and may also be the best

August 24, 2025August 24, 2025 Stephen Corby 4131 Views cadillac, Optiq

With Cadillac offering big price cuts and financing offers on its first Australian offering, the Lyriq EV – which some

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2025 Polestar 3 Long Range.
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Just how long range is the 2025 Polestar 3 Long Ranger? We drive Western Australia’s EV Highway to find out

August 23, 2025August 24, 2025 Stephen Corby 6749 Views moderl 3, polestar

Here is the question – did I set out to drive the world’s longest EV Highway, in Western Australia, to

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2025 GWM Ora.
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GWM Ora steps up! Big upgrades for one of Australia’s cheapest EVs

August 21, 2025September 19, 2025 Stephen Corby 14783 Views GWM, Ora

The GWM Ora has undergone a significant upgrade — including a change to where it is manufactured for Australia —

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Estate of shock: Driving a Volvo not as bad as feared | Opinion

August 16, 2025August 16, 2025 Stephen Corby 5535 Views Volvo 240 Estate, volvo ex90

This is going to hurt your brain, but try it with me anyway. Imagine a world in which EVs were

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Ford F-150 Lightning EV electric pickup truck
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Can an EV tow a caravan? Hopefully not | Opinion

August 3, 2025August 2, 2025 Stephen Corby 12066 Views Caravan, EV towing

Occasionally, if I don’t see them coming and run away first, I will be confronted by someone who likes caravans

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2026 Cadillac Vistiq.
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2026 Cadillac Vistiq Review: Here comes your chance to be an American Soccer Mom on speed

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025 Stephen Corby 3615 Views cadillac, Vistiq

American Soccer Moms sound like a frightening breed – big-haired Kamikaze Karens who favour either giant bus trucks like the

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China. Looks nice.
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You wants facts? I’ll will give you facts! Why China is ruling the world and you’re gonna drive a Chinese EV | Opinion

July 5, 2025July 4, 2025 Stephen Corby 8972 Views

It is vital, I believe, to remind ourselves that this is China’s world, we’re just living in it, and that

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2025 GMC Sierra Denali EV.
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General Motors versus China! Why new GM tech could lead to smaller, lighter, smarter and cheaper EV batteries

July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 Stephen Corby 221764 Views cadillac, general motors, GM, LMR

General Motors has revealed how it is challenging the might of China when it comes to EV battery technology. The

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