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    Articles by Stephen Corby

    Stephen Corby
    Contributing Journalist

    Stephen Corby stumbled into writing about cars after being knocked off the motorcycle he’d been writing about by a mob of angry and malicious kangaroos. Or that’s what he says, anyway. Back in the early 1990s, Stephen was working at The Canberra Times, writing about everything from politics to exciting Canberra night life, but for fun he wrote about motorcycles.

    After crashing a bike he’d borrowed, he made up a colourful series of excuses, which got the attention of the motoring editor, who went on to encourage him to write about cars instead. The rest, as they say, is his story.

    Reviewing and occasionally poo-pooing cars has taken him around the world and into such unexpected jobs as editing TopGear Australia magazine and then the very venerable Wheels magazine, albeit briefly. When that mag moved to Melbourne and Stephen refused to leave Sydney he became a freelancer, and has stayed that way ever since, which allows him to contribute, happily, to CarsGuide.

    Could the new Mazda CX-5-replacing CX-50 gain an inline six-cylinder engine?
    By Stephen Corby · 17 May 2020
    The replacement for Mazda's vitally important CX-5 SUV could be a rear-wheel driven driver's car called the CX-50 with a selection of straight-six engines.
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    Why you need to take advantage of the instant asset tax write-off this EOFY
    By Stephen Corby · 16 May 2020
    The government wants to buy you a new vehicle so much that it's willing to give you up to $150,000 to do so, via it's special, limited-time-only instant tax write-off, which means, according to a qualified accountant, there's never been a better time to p
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    New Mazda MX-30 2021 charging towards Australian launch to take on Hyundai Kona Electric
    By Stephen Corby · 15 May 2020
    You can forget the chat from Mazda HQ about how its first-ever EV, the MX-30, is being built for markets where it makes solid, green sense - those that use clean energy and have plenty of charging infrastructure - because it is all but officially confirme
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    How to check if a car has been stolen
    By Stephen Corby · 13 May 2020
    It's tempting to believe that clever technology can outsmart thick-headed criminals these days, but that's only partly true, at least when it comes to car theft.
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    How to make the most of instant asset tax write-off this EOFY
    By Stephen Corby · 11 May 2020
    Clearly, we live in strange times, with the Australian Government handing out money in an almost willy-nilly fashion to keep our economy alive, but when you hear that it's now possible to buy yourself a vehicle worth up to $150,000 and instantly write off
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    What will the automotive industry look like post-pandemic?
    By Stephen Corby · 09 May 2020
    As motor vehicle sales in Australia drive off a cliff, falling by an unfeasible 50 per cent, the car industry is staring into the abyss of an unknowable future and asking some uncomfortable questions.
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    Top 8 driving myths busted
    By Stephen Corby · 05 May 2020
    There are plenty of alleged factoids we all take as read, like being able to dissolve a tooth in Coke (go on, try it), and many of them apply to the world of driving.
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    Top 10 SUVs in Australia: The definitive list
    By Stephen Corby · 05 May 2020
    SUVs were once the rarest of automotive species; big and boxy things, usually covered in mud and driven by off-road types with non-ironic. beards that rarely ventured into urban areas.
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    You might never have to visit a car dealership again
    By Stephen Corby · 01 May 2020
    In a society in which pretty much everything in life can now be delivered to your door, it should come as no surprise that there may soon be no need to visit a car dealer again, as BMW is now offering to deliver new and used vehicles to your home for test drives
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    Australia's best cars: The official Top 10
    By Stephen Corby · 30 Apr 2020
    Remarkably, there is a question I've been asked more often than "would you like fries with that?" or even "are you George Clooney?" And that question is "what's the best car you've ever driven?"
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