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Tivoli Audio Model One
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Tivoli Audio Model One: The Radio Henry Kloss Built to Outlast the Format

Most tabletop radios from the year 2000 are long gone. The Tivoli Audio Model One is still in production, largely unchanged, because it was engineered by a man who had already spent forty years figuring out how to make radios sound better than they had any right to. It remains one of the rare pieces of consumer electronics where “handmade wood cabinet” isn’t marketing language — the tuner inside is doing real, old-fashioned engineering work most modern radios never bother with.
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Tsubota Pearl Sigaretta Metal Lighter
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Tsubota Pearl Sigaretta Metal Lighter: Tokyo’s Answer to the Disposable Flame

There’s an unglamorous ritual behind most lighters: flick, light, pocket, forget — until it runs dry and gets binned. The Tsubota Pearl Sigaretta Metal lighter was built to break that cycle. Shaped like a slim cigarette and cast in brass, it’s a refillable petrol lighter from a Tokyo workshop that has been making them the same deliberate way since well before disposables existed, and has quietly refused to change since.
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Kia Tasman front three-quarter view on an outback dirt track
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Kia Tasman

Australia’s ute buyers have picked from the same handful of names for a decade, but that shortlist just got a new entry. The Kia Tasman is the Korean brand’s first proper dual-cab pickup, and it isn’t tiptoeing into the segment — it’s landed with five grades, genuine off-road hardware, and a cabin that leans harder into screens and tech than almost anything else with a tray on the back.
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BMW iX3 charging at a public DC fast-charging station
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BMW iX3: Australia’s New Electric SUV for 2026

There’s a new shape turning up in BMW showrooms around the country, and it marks a genuine reset for the brand’s electric ambitions. The BMW iX3 is the first model built on BMW’s new “Neue Klasse” architecture, and it’s landing in Australia through 2026 as two distinct SUVs — one aimed at value-conscious buyers, the other built for maximum range and performance. After a run of iX models that felt like transitional experiments, the iX3 reads like BMW finally settling on what an electric SUV from the brand should be.
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