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What if cars were flag-bearers in the Olympic opening ceremony
If cars were flag-bearers in the Olympic opening ceremony, which ones would represent each country?
1937 Delage D8-120: retro series
A dashing Frenchman left behind this classic as his legacy.
Tetsuya Tada-San: The man behind the Toyota 86
Toyota 86 chief engineer Tetsuya Tada opens up on what’s next for the smash-hit coupe – and drops a few ‘Supra’ hints
10 automotive facts you may not know about Brazil
The 2016 Olympics host nation is best known for great beaches, rainforests, footballers with one-word names and scantily clad samba dancers, but it also has a rich automotive heritage.
1968 Gilltrap’s Auto Museum review
Nine years after Gilltrap’s Auto Museum opened on the Gold Coast, Wheels finally ran a story on what was then Australia’s best car collection.
Classic Wheels: Gilltrap’s Auto Museum review
Former Wheels editor Bill Tuckey used a number of clever ways of making readers think the magazine had more resources – and reach – than the smell of an oily rag allowed. Rather than send staffer Tom Floyd to Gilltrap’s Auto Museum on the Gold Coast, Tuckey asked him to pen a series of letters between journalist and editor to write a story on a landmark that Wheels never officially visited
Mike Borland: Racing car construction
Unassuming local engineer takes on the world, and wins.
Carmakers spark aluminium shortage
Suppliers are struggling to keep up with the auto industry’s appetite for the lightweight metal.
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…
