Car Reviews &#038; Features

The weigh-in: the 2022 Car of the Year contenders on the scales

Each car at COTY must cross the weighbridge… data ensues

2022 Volkswagen Arteon Shooting Brake review

Desirable German returns as a big booted wagon, but is the Arteon Shooting Brake’s beauty only skin deep?

Mercedes-Benz C-Class takes 3rd place in Wheels Car of the Year 2022

Compact three-pointed star advances to the pointy end

Features

GALLERY: 2022 New York Auto Show highlights

New York shows that while the big international motor shows are back, there is still a way to go before they’re back to their pre-COVID-19 glory

How the 2022 Performance Car of the Year field compares to our 2008 event

We take a look back at the last time PCOTY graced Phillip Island

How the Volkswagen Golf GTI’s pace shocked everybody at SCOTY 2022

Venerable hot hatch proves faster than performance icons of the past

The fastest cars at Wheels Car of the Year 2022

It’s not all about speed at COTY, but a bit of punch certainly doesn’t hurt a contender’s chances

Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the Wheels Car of the Year 2022 runner-up

Boldly designed EV shares the winner’s platform, and just about all of its excellence – except for chassis tune

Experience MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022 through the camera lens

MOTOR’s talented photography team smashed PCOTY 2022 out of the park – here are our favourite shots

Want to perform the perfect drift? Buy a BMW M3

M Division’s Drift Analyser rates your slide and gives you tips to improve your form

The incredible rise of Kia, from ‘economy’ to COTY

The inside story of how the Korean “challenger brand” became a fully-fledged COTY winner

The Kia EV6 is the 2022 Wheels Car of the Year

Our COTY 2022 winner is a landmark model that stands as the exclamation point in its brand’s coming-of-age story

2022 Audi e-Tron S review: First Australian drive

Audi’s first sport-performance EV in Australia blends seductive electrified tech with familiar SUV DNA to impressive effect

2022 Subaru BRZ: how fast is fast enough?

The new and improved BRZ posted some impressive figures during PCOTY testing but some still argue that it’s not a sports car. We look at the evidence

Features

Q&A: Lamborghini APAC director Francesco Scardaoni

New engines incoming, confirmation of a fourth model, the challenges of doubling volumes and what the departure of Reggiani as CTO means to the business

Wheels Car of the Year 2022 test loop explained

Wheels heads back to the AARC once again to put 21 cars through the wringer

Behind the scenes at Wheels Car of the Year

The inside line on how COTY 2022 was run, from the eyes of a first-time judge

Is the Jaguar F-Type’s old V6 really just a V8 with two cylinders blanked?

We uncover whether the dearly departed AJ126 engine is just a cut-down supercharged Jaguar V8

The tricky diff that helps the Ford Focus ST fight torque steer

Ford’s hot hatch hero uses a clever diff that stops wheelspin and torque steer before it even occurs

2022 Lamborghini Huracan Tecnica review: International first drive

A short step toward a long goodbye for Lamborghini’s Huracan

Meet the judges of Wheels Car of the Year 2022

Meet the six experts who put out COTY contenders to the test

The Criteria for Car of the Year 2022 explained

Our judges viewed the COTY field with these five points in mind

2022 Cupra Born e-Boost review

Spaniards deliver an electric GTi with Cupra’s first EV, the Born

Behind the scenes of Performance Car of the Year 2022

Hail, a cracked windscreen, a software update and Omicron… Nothing gets in the way of Performance Car of the Year