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Chris Amon (1943-2016)
Wheels remembers a great driver who would have been even greater, with a little luck

Archive: Ford Falcon XR6 vs Vauxhall Omega vs Ford Scorpio vs Jaguar XJ
Peter Robinson took the quickest Falcon to Britain and drove it against the home market. The Poims had never seen it, but now they want it

Video: Le Mans cars through the ages
Watch 90 years of some of the most iconic LeMans racers evolve in just 60 seconds

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

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

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
