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9 extravagant car extras
Got lots of cash and no clue what to do with it? Right this way
Mike Simcoe on his journey from Melbourne to Motown
Australia’s Mike Simcoe once pinned Monaro posters to his wall, now he leads the global team designing GM’s poster cars of the future
Land Rover Discovery Sport drives through Australia’s dead heart
We go to Maralinga, South Oz, 60 years after British atomic bomb testing left the earth and the people in fallout.
Apple shifts iCar focus to self-drive software
iPhone’s maker appoints top gun to develop self-drive tech, and not a self-drive car
Build your own Ferrari 488
Warning: Ferrari’s online configurator will consume your time
Holden’s four-door Monaro hybrid
Holden’s vision of the future was on the money
Alfa Romeo’s revolutionary gamble in development
Can five billion euro buy a future for Alfa Romeo?
Australian leads Honda’s outside the box car design
James Deane heads Honda’s Counter Design Team, the guys who say ‘but what if we did it this way?’
Man tows goats in a Lamborghini Murcielago
People tow goats all the time, but when someone does it in a Lamborghini raging bull, we sit up and take notice
Car badges of honour
Instead of continuing to come up with bad car names, car makers should look to the past for inspiration
Honda S2000 prototype at the Nurburgring
Sadly missed Roadster screams around the ‘Ring
Opinion: Why you should crash your car
It’s a legal minefield for car companies to program their cars to kill other people
Archive: 1996 Ford Falcon EL GT vs 1996 HSV GTS-R
This is the moment we’ve been waiting for – HSV’s big-bang banana against Ford’s awesome aubergine! Todd Hallenbeck chows down…
Floating traffic tubes will cut travel time, Norway says
They sound oxymoronic, but floating submerged tubes could be the answer for Norway’s fjords which are too deep for tunnels and too wide for bridges.
Peugeot’s decade of madness
Crazy concepts, iconic hatches and wild race cars
World’s first female driver joins car industry’s hall of fame
Bertha Benz snuck out of the house to help her husband show the world that the motor car was the way of the future
Gosford Classic Car Museum: 8 of the best
Take one Bunnings Warehouse, remove all horticulture and fill with 400 exotic cars
Neville Crichton interview
If Neville Crichton’s life was a movie, critics would slate it as overblown, absurd, unrealistic and a load of bollocks.
Australia is falling behind the world, lacking the leadership to stop
Stephen Corby laments the lack of political leadership and investment in infrastructure that’s seeing Australia fall behind the rest of the world in the number of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on our roads
Porsche 918 LMP1 concept is jaw-dropping
A team of designers has put together a dream Porsche concept
Archive: Ford Falcon EL XRs Review 1996
Wheels’ 1996 test of the Ford Falcon EL XR8 and XR6. Australia’s best value sports sedans have been away for a nose job – and singing lessons, reports Bob Hall
Autonomous cars: The future of driving is already here
Autonomous cars aren’t just coming, they’re already here, and one day, soon, they may get so clever, and so safe, that governments will have to make it illegal for humans to drive. After the recent death of a man in Florida who was basically killed by the failure of the Autopilot system in the Tesla he was driving, questions are being asked about just how real-world ready this technology is.
Active roll control: Geek speak
Merc’s high-tech system does away with swaybars
Chrysler 300 SRT long-term report one
Our new resident is a rear-drive V8 for those who prefer burgers to meat pies
