{"id":494379,"date":"2026-02-21T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494379\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:36:14","slug":"cars-under-40k-cars-drive-would-pick-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494379\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars under $40K cars Drive would pick for the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"authorAvatar-module-scss-module__DR0ZcW__drive-author-avatar__link authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/tung-nguyen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dujo7iyolyrt0rkbcfnv.webp\" alt=\"Tung Nguyen\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" class=\"image-module-scss-module__yfnysa__drive-image authorAvatar-module-scss-module__DR0ZcW__drive-author-avatar__img bg-gray-200\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tungy_nguyen\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"width:1.75rem;height:1.75rem\" class=\"followIcons-module-scss-module__9No8sG__drive-social__link bg-black\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.drive.com.au\/obj\/tx_dpr:2,q:80,rs:auto:16:16:1,style:cGF0aCB7ZmlsbDogI2ZmZmZmZiAhaW1wb3J0YW50fQ==\/driveau\/upload\/cms\/theme\/icons_v3\/Instagram\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Visit Instagram page\" class=\"drive-icon drive-icon-InstagramIcon followIcons-module-scss-module__9No8sG__drive-social__icon\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__description\">Tung Nguyen has been in the automotive journalism industry for over a decade, cutting his teeth at various publications before finding himself at Drive in 2024. With experience in news, feature, review, and advice writing, as well as video presentation skills, Tung is a do-it-all content creator. Tung\u2019s love of cars first started as a child watching Transformers on Saturday mornings, as well as countless hours on PlayStation\u2019s Gran Turismo, meaning his dream car is a Nissan GT-R, with a Liberty Walk widebody kit, of course.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__wrapper authorBio-module-scss-module__bK84Cq__drive-author-bio__link link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__float-right\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drive.com.au\/about-drive\/our-journalists\/tung-nguyen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read more about Tung Nguyen<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.drive.com.au\/obj\/tx_dpr:2,q:80,rs:auto:20:20:1,style:cGF0aCB7ZmlsbDogIzI5NjBjNSAhaW1wb3J0YW50fQ==\/driveau\/upload\/cms\/theme\/icons\/LinkIcon\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" alt=\"LinkIcon\" class=\"drive-icon drive-icon-LinkIcon link-module-scss-module__xVbT9q__drive-link__external__icon\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tung Nguyen has been in the automotive journalism industry for over a decade, cutting his teeth at various&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[249353,249354,249355,64,63,99,249356,177993,101874,199811,249357,136574,249358,24111,18982],"class_list":{"0":"post-494379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-70-series-landcruiser","9":"tag-abarth-124-spider","10":"tag-abarth-500e","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-ford-focus-rs","15":"tag-holden","16":"tag-hot-hatch","17":"tag-hsv","18":"tag-hyundai-i20-n","19":"tag-mazda-mx-5","20":"tag-mercedes-benz-e-class","21":"tag-miscellaneous","22":"tag-mplace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}