Most Australians are familiar with cars like the Toyota RAV4 , Ford Ranger , and Mitsubishi Outlander , but even if those well-known nameplates have been around for quite some time, they certainly don’t paint a full picture of their respective brand’s local history.

That’s why we’ve decided to compare the first cars to be sold in Australia by each of our top-10 best-selling auto brands with their newest nameplates. It’s intended to be a lighthearted look at then versus now, to illustrate how far each popular marque has come.

We’ve included only the latest current nameplates from each of these companies, since they’re new models that may not have existed locally beforehand.

There are plenty of newer powertrains and variants than some of these models, but that’s getting a little too

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