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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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All forms of Government operate with a combination of carrots and sticks (in President Trump’s case his approach is to

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Forget broken promises or a stale model lineup, Tesla’s biggest company-threatening risk is actually Elon Musk | Opinion

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The problem with having a saint-like figure as the very public face of your company – a figure many argue

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2025 IM Motors LS6.
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Scooped in Melbourne! Here’s proof MG is planning to tackle the Tesla Model Y head-on. It’s called the IM LS6 and it’s coming in 2025

January 21, 2025February 17, 2025 Stephen Corby 21264 Views IM LS6

First, official images of Tesla’s refreshed Model Y appear, and now a new Chinese rival lands on our shores, setting

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Zeekr X
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Stupidity reigns: 2025 Zeekr X has swallowed a cat, a horse and a bicycle | Opinion

January 17, 2025January 18, 2025 Stephen Corby 14515 Views Chinese ev, Zeekr, Zeekr X

Something very frightening is happening with new cars; they seem to have lost their little electronic minds, and the plot,

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New 2025 Tesla Model Y ‘Juniper’ breaks cover and breaks the internet – excitement at fever pitch

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025 Stephen Corby 14902 Views

If you’re feeling a powerful and positive disturbance in The Force – similar to that encountered when a new Apple

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Stephen Corby’s best electric car of 2024: Kia EV9

December 29, 2024December 28, 2024 Stephen Corby 3794 Views Kia EV9, POrsche 718 EV

Now look, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is such an obvious winner in any judging of the best electric car

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‘We’re sticking with EVs!’ Kia Australia explains why EVs are important now and will be even more vital in the future

December 18, 2024December 18, 2024 Stephen Corby 17653 Views EV3 EV6, EV5, EV9, Kia

Kia Australia remains absolutely committed to EVs and sees them driving the most interest and enquiries of any vehicles in

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“I bought this before Elon went crazy”: How Tesla owners are fighting back after funding Musk’s MAGA push | Opinion

December 15, 2024December 14, 2024 Stephen Corby 5559 Views donald trump, elon musk

“Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is stepping away from his roles on two of Donald Trump’s advisory councils following

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2025 Ford Ranger PHEV.
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Why Australia should be a world leader in EVs

November 24, 2024November 23, 2024 Stephen Corby 3623 Views australia, ev, ev sales

Believe it or not, all available evidence suggests Australia should be a world leader in electric vehicles, so why are

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Polestar 4
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2025 Polestar 4 review – clever design makes Tesla Model Y and other SUVs look old fashioned

November 23, 2024November 22, 2024 Stephen Corby 14761 Views polestar

Everything new is new again. Decades after design guru Ian Callum revealed Jaguar’s I-Pace, the first EV ever from a

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