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2017 Mini JCW Clubman
Best Value Performance Cars

2017 Mini JCW Clubman: 7th Place $50-$100K

The Clubman’s cornering prowess fails to boost final ranking

After 30 years, GMH unveils the born-again Holden
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39 Years of Holden Commodore: 1978 – GMH unveils the born-again Holden

The Commodore is a car we can be proud of, a car to compare with any (and we mean any) from Europe. Meet a new and very different Holden … it’s the General’s finest hour.

Wheels Tyre Test 2017: Eight brands compared
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Wheels Tyre Test 2017: Eight brands compared

It isn’t easy sorting good passenger-car tyres from the genuinely great ones, but the annual Wheels Tyre Test has it down to a fine, round and black art. We put eight tyres through the gauntlet to give you our pick of the bunch

Jaguar Land Rover’s new wave in recycling turns concept cars into surfboards
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Jaguar Land Rover’s new wave in recycling turns concept cars into surfboards

How a ‘no waste to landfill’ initiative doesn’t have to be boring

2017 Caterham Seven 275
Best Value Performance Cars

2017 Caterham Seven 275: 8th Place $50-$100K

Blast from the past has its place, just not at BFYB

Watch a Ferrari 250 GTO getting binned at Goodwood
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Watch a Ferrari 250 GTO getting binned at Goodwood

$50 million worth of prancing stallion ended up slightly worse for wear

2017 Toyota 86 GT vs 2001 Nissan 200SX
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2017 Toyota 86 GT vs 2001 Nissan 200SX: new vs used

Toyota’s 86 spurs memories of Nissan’s bygone belter

Reliving Australias part in the Berlin Airlift in the next German built Commodore
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Reliving Australia’s part in the Berlin Airlift, in the next German-built Commodore

Nearly 70 years ago, Australian servicemen helped save West Berlin in the biggest humanitarian airlift operation in history. We revisit the sites of that remarkable event in the German-built Opel that’s headed here to fill the shoes of an Aussie icon

2017 Audi S5 Cabriolet first drive review
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2017 Audi S5 Cabriolet first drive review

Audi’s go-fast treatment to the largest cabriolet in its line-up brings the pace but not the noise

2017 Volkswagen Golf 7.5 review video
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2017 Volkswagen Golf 7.5 review video

Golf’s midlife update aims to stay fresh against strong competition in a popular segment

Explained V2X Vehicle to everything communication
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Explained: V2X Vehicle-to-everything communication

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication will soon become a mainstay of our roads, but our cars could soon after be talking to traffic lights and buildings. Wheels delves into the What? How? and Why? in this edition of Explained.

Wheels Interview: Jaguar’s man behind the electric E-Type
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Wheels Interview: Jaguar’s man behind the electric E-Type

Spectacular or sacrilege? Tim Hannig talks Jaguar E-Type Zero

2017 Hyundai i30 review video
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2017 Hyundai i30 review video

The reinvented Hyundai i30 is making a play for Volkswagen Golf buyers with its strong European influence

10 Worst sport editions
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Top 10 worst sport editions: Classic MOTOR

Like greg louganis head-butting an olympic diving board, some sporting failures are best handled in public

2017 Audi S5 Cabriolet
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2017 Audi S5 Cabriolet review

Ingolstadt’s S-men cook up an A5 drop-top

Mazda's next-gen platform driven
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Mazda’s next-gen platform driven

It’s all change at platform 3 as we get behind the wheel of Mazda’s 2019 chassis

Audi A5 Cabriolet 2.0 TFSI Quattro Sport review
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Audi A5 Cabriolet 2.0 TFSI Quattro Sport review

Audi’s largest drop-top drops in weight but not its jiggy tendency

2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk Review
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2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk review

World’s most powerful SUV is not as daft as you’d think

2008 Audi RS6 Avant front
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2008 Audi RS6 Avant: Classic MOTOR

Can Ingolstadt’s fastest, meatiest road car ever build on the RS4’s brilliance?

Mazda 3 Maxx vs Hyundai i30 Active vs Toyota Corolla Ascent Sport
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Mazda 3 Maxx vs Hyundai i30 Active vs Toyota Corolla Ascent Sport

It’s a battle of Australia’s most popular, as we pit the country’s three best-selling small hatches against each other

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Mitsubishi ASX Review (2012-2017)

The Mitsubishi ASX has more space inside than most small SUVs and drives nicely. This review covers cars on sale prior to the MY18 facelift of September 2017.

Porsche once shoehorned one of its engines into a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen
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Porsche once shoehorned one of its engines into a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen

This Mercedes-Benz off-roader is proudly displayed in a Porsche museum, and for good reason

1978-82 Football meat pies kangaroos and Aussie cars
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1978-82: Football, meat pies, kangaroos, and Aussie cars

The Holden Commodore arrives as the nation struggles to set the framework for the car industry

Group A Nissan R32 Skyline GTR racetrack
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Nissan R32 Skyline GT-R Group A: Classic MOTOR

The car that immortalised the letters ‘GT-R’