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Every fact on this site that can change gets checked against a primary source, and we record the date we checked it.
That covers prices, whether a car is still sold new here, who imports a brand, model line-ups, Luxury Car Tax thresholds and warranty terms. All of it moves, sometimes without warning. A number that was right last year can be badly wrong today.
We work down a set order of sources, and we record which one we used.
The manufacturer’s Australian site, or an Australian press release. This is the only source we accept for whether a car is sold new here, what it costs new, who distributes it, and what the current line-up is.
Australian government sources. The ATO for Luxury Car Tax thresholds. The Department of Infrastructure for import and SEVS rules.
Established Australian motoring press. Good for specifications, history and road-test impressions, and useful as a second check. Not enough on its own for a price or for availability.
Overseas manufacturer sites and press. Specifications and history only. Never for Australian pricing, availability or timing.
We do not treat our own older articles, Wikipedia, forums or dealer listings as sources.
Anything we publish as fact gets checked twice, by two different routes. Two motoring outlets repeating each other is one route, not two. Where the two disagree, we say so in the article, or we leave the claim out.
A price with no date on it is a trap. It reads as true forever, and it is wrong within a year.
So we do one of two things. We date it in the copy, or we pull it from a vehicle record that carries the date it was last checked. Availability works the same way. “You can buy this new in Australia” becomes “on sale new in Australia as at July 2026”.
For cars no longer sold new, we write in the past tense and say what replaced them. A used-buyer guide is a genuinely useful thing. A used-buyer guide pretending to be a new-car review is not.
Prices, line-ups and tax rules change all the time, so checking is never a one-off. When something changes, we update every article that mentions it and the vehicle record behind it, so the whole site moves together.
Have a question or a story tip? Email editorial@roadnews.com.au.
Cars on sale new: every three months.
Superseded and discontinued cars: once a year, and straight away when a replacement is announced.
Luxury Car Tax thresholds: every July, when the financial year turns.