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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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Amid all the doom and Boomer gloom about EV sales (as I’ve mentioned before, a shocking proportion of Boomers/Old People

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2025 Mini Aceman.
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2025 Mini Aceman Review: Goldilocks-sized Mini for families is not very mini, but still five-door fun

March 23, 2025March 22, 2025 Stephen Corby 5180 Views Aceman, Mini

It’s helpful to think of Mini as being a bit like Taylor Swift, only less awesome. The world-conquering songstress of

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2025 BMW X3 30e xDrive.
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2025 BMW X3 30e xDrive Review: PHEV variant is the Ultimate Driving Machine

March 16, 2025March 15, 2025 Stephen Corby 19305 Views 30e xDrive, bmw, PHEV, X3

You know we are truly through the technological looking glass when an enthusiast driver can eschew the obvious choice of

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Hating on Chinese EVs from MG, BYD, Leapmotor, Geely and Xpeng? You might be a car-racist | Opinion

March 10, 2025March 10, 2025 Stephen Corby 8040 Views BYD, Leapmotor, mg, Xpeng

Would you buy an electric vehicle from someone with a gun to your head? You’ll think I’m being overly dramatic,

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2025 Audi Q6 e-tron Review: Audi platforms up with its best real-world EV yet

March 8, 2025March 8, 2025 Stephen Corby 7100 Views Audi, e-tron, Q6

It might not be reflected in sales, or not so far anyway, but Audi probably does deserve some credit for

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Electric ute shock! The BYD Shark 6 really is as good as everyone says – in fact, it’s better | Opinion

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Being avowedly and even professionally cynical can be exhausting work, but it’s satisfying, too, because you’re so often proven to

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Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
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Don’t do it Jim! Stupid road user charge will be a disaster for the EV market in Australia | Opinion

February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 Stephen Corby 7865 Views EV road tax, Jim Chalmers

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

February 1, 2025January 31, 2025 Stephen Corby 10383 Views

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 22365 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 16076 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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