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Wheels Tyre Test 2017: Eight brands compared
It isn’t easy sorting good passenger-car tyres from the genuinely great ones, but the annual Wheels Tyre Test has it down to a fine, round and black art. We put eight tyres through the gauntlet to give you our pick of the bunch

Jaguar Land Rover’s new wave in recycling turns concept cars into surfboards
How a ‘no waste to landfill’ initiative doesn’t have to be boring

Watch a Ferrari 250 GTO getting binned at Goodwood
$50 million worth of prancing stallion ended up slightly worse for wear

2017 Toyota 86 GT vs 2001 Nissan 200SX: new vs used
Toyota’s 86 spurs memories of Nissan’s bygone belter

Reliving Australia’s part in the Berlin Airlift, in the next German-built Commodore
Nearly 70 years ago, Australian servicemen helped save West Berlin in the biggest humanitarian airlift operation in history. We revisit the sites of that remarkable event in the German-built Opel that’s headed here to fill the shoes of an Aussie icon

Explained: V2X Vehicle-to-everything communication
Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication will soon become a mainstay of our roads, but our cars could soon after be talking to traffic lights and buildings. Wheels delves into the What? How? and Why? in this edition of Explained.

Retro: 1984 Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 – Forest Thump
A Pug-nacious homologation special that ruled rallying in the mid-’80s

Wheels Interview: Jaguar’s man behind the electric E-Type
Spectacular or sacrilege? Tim Hannig talks Jaguar E-Type Zero

Top 10 worst sport editions: Classic MOTOR
Like greg louganis head-butting an olympic diving board, some sporting failures are best handled in public

Porsche once shoehorned one of its engines into a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen
This Mercedes-Benz off-roader is proudly displayed in a Porsche museum, and for good reason

1978-82: Football, meat pies, kangaroos, and Aussie cars
The Holden Commodore arrives as the nation struggles to set the framework for the car industry

Nissan R32 Skyline GT-R Group A: Classic MOTOR
The car that immortalised the letters ‘GT-R’

Retro Review: 1999 Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR
A road car in name and little else. The CLK-GTR was arguably the most extreme racing homologation example ever. Read Robbo’s take straight from the Wheels archive.

The performance cars that brought F1 tech to the road
Mercedes-AMG’s Project One spruiks bona-fide F1 mechanicals, but it’s not the first car to make the promise of bringing F1 technology to a road car

Ford Mustang vs Chevrolet Camaro: Which would you prefer?
The Red vs Blue battle transitions from fast sedans to rear-drive coupes

Five garages to make you weep
These houses and garages will make any rev head want to sell up and move

Stephen Corby quenches the midlife crisis by buying a Hyundai
A seasoned automotive journalist finds the delight in his first new car buying experience

1973-77: Paving the way for change
Australia struggles with an economic slump that also hits new-car sales hard

The numbers behind the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Trackhawk will warp your sense of reality
The laws of physics will be put to the test thanks to this 527kW muscle SUV

Performance Car Podcast: Performance SUVs
The boys from MOTOR discuss the performance SUV craze

Opinion: SuperUtes might just be awesome
Diesel ute racing could be just what Australian motorsport needs

Our part in the Berlin Airlift relived in the next Commodore: Gallery
Mike Duff pushes an Opel Insignia to its limits across German autobahns to discover a far-away piece of Australian history

Fast car bargains: 0-100km/h in under 5s
Because sometimes you need to look beyond Germany – and Australia

Forbidden Fruit – the best cars that we can’t have
Do you ever gaze longingly across the ocean, envious of the cool cars available overseas which are unavailable here? We do.