Car Reviews &#038; Features

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

April 15, 2022

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

This neat suspension trick allows the Skoda Octavia RS to be a comfortable family car and surprising track weapon

The Czech wagon has a suspension system that you can really geek out on

Wheels Car of the Year 2022: The Contenders

Who made the cut in our hunt for the best new car on sale?

Welcome to Car of the Year 2022

COTY 2022 is here, and there’s a lot to cover – let’s get started

2022 BMW iX3 review: New electric SUV tested

The first of BMW’s of the new wave of EVs comes in the uncharacteristically subtle form of the popular X3 mid-size SUV

What makes the Mazda ND MX-5’s development story special

Subtract and add lightness: how Mazda undid two generations of weight gain

The Lamborghini Huracan Evo is more than an Audi R8 in disguise

An Audi R8 in disguise? PCOTY proves the Lamborghini Huracan Evo is so much more than that

MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022: the track test

One of the best race tracks in the world and a field bursting with talent – game on

Your chance to play data analyst with the MOTOR Performance Car of the Year VBOX files

For the first time in PCOTY history, we are giving you the change to play with all our performance data from Phillip Island