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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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The hybrid killer? Cupra shows off new Terramar PHEV, with Audi Q3 DNA and 100km EV-only range

August 26, 2024August 30, 2024 Stephen Corby 10232 Views

The all-new 2025 Cupra Terramar has been teased ahead of its September 3 reveal and Australian launch next year, and

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2024 Tesla Model 3 Performance
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Are electric vehicles dangerously fast? From the MG 4 XPower to the Tesla Model 3 Performance, supercar acceleration at Aldi prices is a recipe for disaster

August 25, 2024August 30, 2024 Stephen Corby 4841 Views Tesla Model 3 Performance

Electric vehicles have ruined speed. Recently, at the race track part of the Porsche Taycan launch a colleague of mine

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New Porsche Taycan range
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2024 Porsche Taycan review: Epic Tesla tamer proves Porsche should be building all the EVs in the world

August 24, 2024August 30, 2024 Stephen Corby 4048 Views Porsche Taycan

If we really want to move the motoring world towards electrification in a speedy and successful fashion, there really is

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2024 BMW ix1 eDrive20.
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2024 BMW iX1 eDrive20 review: We understand why BMW’s cheapest EV exists, but should it?

August 11, 2024August 11, 2024 Stephen Corby 23740 Views bmw, ev, iX1, SUV

If you want to understand why the single e-motor front-wheel drive BMW iX1 eDrive20 exists look no further than the

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Porsche Mission R race car concept
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No Hyundai-style fake gearboxes for Porsche Cayman or Boxster: “They make it worse”

August 8, 2024August 6, 2024 Stephen Corby 12836 Views Boxster, Cayman, EV gears, fake gearbox, porsche

In a terrible blow for driving enthusiasts who long for an EV with soul and character, Porsche has revealed it

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EV battery fires are rare
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ICE vehicles 80 times more likely to catch fire than electric cars

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 Stephen Corby 25628 Views

As a part of the media myself – and thus allegedly a purveyor of fake news and a habitually horrible

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Tesla Model 3 Performance
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Tesla owners may soon need a special licence to drive a FEV (Fast Electric Vehicle)

July 13, 2024July 16, 2024 Stephen Corby 6783 Views

When you get a boat licence, you are not allowed to pilot a cruise ship, or a Sydney Ferry, nor

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Polestar Concept BST
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Polestar turned up to 911 with new Polestar 6 Concept BST unveiled at Goodwood

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024 Stephen Corby 10311 Views BST, polestar, Polestar 6, Polestar BST

Polestar has unveiled a new concept car – the Concept BST – which it describes as “Polestar turned up to

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Mercedes-Benz EQC at an EVlink DC fast charging station
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What hope for Tesla, or any other EVs, once Dutton goes full MAGGA? | Opinion

June 19, 2024June 19, 2024 Stephen Corby 5617 Views electric car subsidies, EV policy, EV politics

It is surely only a matter of days until Peter Dutton rains fire and fury upon electric vehicles and their

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A plug-in hybrid
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Time to unplug phoney PHEV fuel ratings: Australia’s “electrified” automotive future isn’t all its cracked up to be | Opinion

June 9, 2024June 8, 2024 Stephen Corby 6325 Views NVES, PHEV

Imagine, for one wild moment, that McDonald’s was allowed to promote itself as a purveyor ofhealth foods, just because it

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