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BMW M135i long-term update 4
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BMW M135i long-term update 4

Can we forgive the M135i’s dirty secret?

Opinion: Car maintenance is key
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Opinion: Car maintenance is key

Giving people a rundown on vehicle maintenance goes hand-in-hand with teaching them how to drive

Aston Martin Vanquish car art
Car Style

Aston Martin creates leather Vanquish in true Art Attack style

Remember Art Attack? Aston Martin clearly does. It seems the British TV program may have inspired the luxury carmaker to create its own huge artwork, in the middle of its UK headquarters.

Finke off-road Desert Race
Classic Wheels

AORC 2010 Finke Desert Race

The Finke Desert Race in central Oz is known as the Bathurst 1000 of off-road racing. Glenn Butler risks the mother of all lung oysters to report from the eye of the storm.

Nine cars we need in Australia
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Nine cars we need in Australia

Some gems we miss out on – living in Oz

Porsche 718 Boxster development
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Porsche 718 Boxster development

MOTOR crashes final testing for the new turbo 718 Boxster

Toyota Lexcen V8 AWD
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Toyota Lexcen ultimate sleeper

Gravel-munching home-built supercharged V8 AWD weapon

Bill Tuckey
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Tributes flow in for former Wheels editor Bill Tuckey

UPDATED: Tributes from readers, former co-workers and the Australian car industry have flowed into Wheels since the death of former editor Bill Tuckey

Cars of 1966 Bill Tuckey remembered
Classic Wheels

Cars of 1966: Bill Tuckey remembered

It was the prerogative of successive Wheels editors to provide a highly personal account each December of the cars they had driven that year.

Bill Tuckey reflects on the cars of 1966
Classic Wheels

Bill Tuckey reflects on the cars of 1966

In a Wheels tradition that lasted nearly five decades, editors summed up annually in a personal column all the cars they had driven. Here is the late Bill Tuckey’s view of 1966.

Remembering Bill Tuckey: Holden Monaro drives around Australia
Classic Wheels

Remembering Bill Tuckey: Holden Monaro drives around Australia

A Holden Monaro, flexible speed limits and the open road; the joys of driving around Australia in a by-gone era, as only Bill Tuckey could describe it

Suzuki Alto
Car Style

Micro cars we can buy in Australia, and those we can’t

There’s nothing we love more than day dreaming, so with the exodus of some micro cars from the Australian new car market, we decided to take a look at five of the teeny tiny cars we can’t get in Australia, but wish we could!

Ford Falcon Sprints: the full story
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Ford Falcon Sprints: the full story

Much more than just a badge and sticker job, MOTOR reveals the full story behind the fastest Falcons ever

Drift Mode: Geek Speak
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Ford Focus RS Drift Mode: Geek Speak

What is ‘drift mode’?

Ford Focus ST rear
Car Style

Ford believe artificial sounds are going to save fuel costs

Ford is giving new meaning to “fake it til you make it” with a new patented device where fake engine noises can actually help save fuel

Car Style

Pagani Huayra BC driving in the snow

Pagani have left our jaws in the snow with this stunning video of their highbrow Huayra BC

Volkswagen Golf R - 7th Generation
Car Style

Volkswagen Golf celebrates 40 years of Aussie motoring

From the moment it arrived on Aussie shores, the Volkswagen Golf was a success. 2016 marks forty years since that moment and to celebrate, we take a look at the game-changing German hatch, and how it all began.

1990 Lamborghini Diablo: retro series
Classic Wheels

1990 Lamborghini Diablo: retro series

It took Lamborghini 17 years to reprise the legendary Countach

Porsche 911 GT3 RS Walter Rohrl onboard
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Porsche 911 GT3 RS Walter Rohrl onboard

Ride along with the rally legend around the fearsome Bilster Berg circuit

Classic Wheels
Classic Wheels

Remembering Bill Tuckey: Quints drives a V12 Jaguar

Everyone loves a roadtrip. Even more so when someone possessing the talent, passion and appreciation of prose as when former Wheels editor Bill Tuckey was moved to take up the quill. Part Hunter S Thompson, part Kerouac, but so uniquely Tuckey, sit back and re-live Romsey Quints’s classic piece of longform motoring journalism from 1977 – Long Day’s Journey into Johtown.

Nissan GT-R in the Shaky Isles
Classic Wheels

Nissan GT-R in the Shaky Isles

Who said you need to fly halfway around the world to find mind-bending mountain scenery mixed with class-A driver’s roads? We crossed the ditch, grabbed a Nissan GT-R, and went in search of blacktop to rival Europe’s finest. Choice, bro …

Audi RS3 vs Mercedes-AMG A45
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Audi RS3 vs Mercedes-AMG A45

Two turbo, all-claw fighters fast enough to frighten yesteryear’s supercars

No COTY
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Why Wheels withheld Car of the Year in 1972

No car of the year award will be made by Wheels for 1972. Wheels makes this announcement with a deep feeling of responsibility — and real regret.

Opinion: Understeer should not be under-rated
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Opinion: Understeer should not be under-rated

Understeer isn’t necessarily the antithesis of driving entertainment