Car Reviews &#038; Features

Jaguar unleashes F-Type racer

Need a moment to yourself? We don’t blame you.

10 for 2014: Your next top model

You’ve seen the cars that moved us in 2013, but what will excite in 2014? It’s Next Top Model, Wheels style.

A hot lap with Mick Doohan

A wet track, a pit lane full of F1 cars and a five-time MotoGP world champ. Wheels tackles Albert Park with Mick Doohan and tries to distract him … at 220km/h

Friday rant: The naked truth

Why Porsche is like a car magazine with naked women

2009 Porsche Boxster S review

Wholesale powertrain upgrades deliver a Boxster S that’s not just better, it’s brilliant…

LAUNCHED: Mini Cooper D

Outstanding efficiency in cute-as-a-button packaging.

Mitsubishi workhorse Triton gets tougher for 2010

Triton now has a new 131kW and 400Nm turbo-diesel and impressive safety gear. It’s all about being tougher than the opposition.

Subaru WRX STi Spec C

Lighter, tighter, righter – for Japan, at least

Review: Hyundai Genesis

We’ve all felt it. That ball-clenching, stomach-churning moment of turning into a corner too fast, of feeling the tyres slip, the horror of knowing you’re about to crash.

Review: 2013 Honda Civic DTi-S Diesel Hatch

Journalists, by nature, are cynics. So when Honda Australia declared its first ever diesel, fitted exclusively to the Civic hatch, is as refined and as quiet as its petrol offerings, I sniggered into my morning coffee.

Review: Ford EcoSport

I’m trying to remember the last time I was less surprised by a photo than this one of a Ford EcoSport on its roof.

Review: Fiat 500 1.2 Pop

“It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!” singer/songwriter Dolly Parton once remarked. And then there’s this – Fiat’s ‘repositioned’ but otherwise unchanged 500. Now from $14,000 driveaway, it’s the least expensive way to look classy on four wheels.

COTY

2008 Car of the Year Finalist: Mazda CX-9

A roomy, refined and surprisingly dynamic large SUV, but mould remains unbroken.

COTY

Volkswagen Polo: 2010 Car of the Year Winner

Volkswagen has taken out the Wheels Magazine Car of the Year award for a second year running.

FIRST DRIVE: Nissan Altima

Replacing the long-standing Maxima, Nissan Altima’s value equation climbs as you descend the range.

First drive: Kia ProCeed GT

Shock sub-$30K pricing and Euro engineering underpin Kia’s first driver’s car

GT-R RETROSPECTIVE: Fully 6 (December 04)

FPV F6 Typhoon v Chrysler Valiant Charger E49 v Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R V-Spec

Right of way

Samoa switches to right-hand drive.

Volvo could to be added to the Chinese menu

Ford tags Geely as its preferred bidder for the Swedish brand. But would you buy your herrings from a Chinese restaurant?

The strange things we do in traffic

When freeways are clogged, and the back streets are worse, strange things happen can happen.

First look: Audi’s Urban Mobility Concept

Top 10 track-day cars

Now is the perfect time to begin track day preparations and the trading of circuit chariots. Here are 10 top track day cars in time for the start of the season.

Extravagant celebrity car gifts

Caught! Alfa Romeo 4C

A production-ready Alfa Romeo 4C has been caught testing in Italy ahead of its Geneva Motor Show reveal.