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Faster than a speeding KIA…
Known as ‘The man of Steel’, Superman has been transformed into ‘Wheels of Steel” thanks to KIA’s tribute version of its Optima Hybrid unveiled at this week’s Chicago Auto Show.
Dwarf cars are documentary stars!
Ernie Adams, 72, lives in Maricopa, in the heart of desert country, just south of Phoenix, Arizona, and builds incredibly detailed, road-legal, roughly half-scale replica cars, by hand, from scratch, in his workshop shed.
McLaren’s 50-year film trilogy
A 26-year-old Bruce McLaren founded his new company, Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd, in a small south London lock-up on September 2, 1963, and tragically, only seven years later, the Kiwi racing ace was killed testing one of his M8D Can-Am sportscars at the Goodwood circuit, in the south of England.
MOTOR’S world without wheels
Paris based photographic artist Renaud Marion has created a series of computer render images, that literally pull the wheels out from under the motor car.
MOTOR’s TOP 10 Biggest Baddest Bling fails!
Pimped and blinged out automotive fashion victims are everywhere, and MOTOR mag is kicking off 2013 with a Top 10 list of cars it loves to hate.
Motoring icons pass in 2012
Some iconic figures in the motoring world left us in 2012, and as the year draws to a close MOTOR magazine pays tribute to them.
Coolest Concept Cars of 2012
The automotive dream factory has pumped out a stunning array of concept cars over the last 12 months, and MOTOR has selected its Top-25.
Porsche 911 – Fit, Fab and 50
The Porsche 911, one of the most recognisable and desirable shapes in the automotive world, turns 50 years young in 2013.
Heavenly metal in the City of Angels
The Los Angeles motorshow has been growing in stature over recent years, with the industry’s biggest brands using it as a launching pad for their latest and greatest.
Lamborghini’s Big Five-O
Lamborghini, maker of some of the worlds’s most spectacular sports cars, celebrates 50 years as a car maker in 2013, so join MOTOR magazine for a walk through this iconic brand’s amazing history.
MOTOR MAGAZINE: BMW M hits the big 4-O
Far from the trauma of a mid-life crisis, BMW’s M (for Motorsport) division is proudly celebrating four decades of high-performance road and racing cars wearing the now famous single letter badge.
MOTOR MAGAZINE: Hottest 100 cars of all time
It’s all well and good for us to preach what the best car ever made was, but what we think and the rest of the world thinks may be completely different.
Motor Magazine: the Best Modified Cars at the LA Motor Show
Here’s a selection of some of the best modified cars on display exclusively brought to you by Motor Magazine Editor Andrew MacLean.
Ride of a lifetime: Ken Block takes Motor Magazine for a spin!
Ken Block brought his smash hit viral videos to life last weekend with the final round of the Gymkhana World Tour held at Melbourne’s Calder Park.
Audi’s Radical Le Mans Race Car
Audi’s new R18 TDI will be the manufacturer’s first closed-roof Le Mans challenger since 1999
Ford XY Falcon GT HO vs FG Falcon XR6
We pit Australia’s greatest muscle icon, the GT HO, against today’s cheapy XR6. On strip. On track. The results? You better sit down for this…
F1 car laps Bathurst
Jenson Button and Craig Lowndes created history yesterday, swapping their Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 and Vodafone Triple 888 V8 Supercars
Greatest sports car: Porsche 356
Remember Andie MacDowell in Groundhog Day? It’s a style icon with clear links to one of the greatest sports cars on the road today.
Green Power
With 480kW and 803Nm, Walky’s latest is called ‘Supercar’ for a reason
1966 Ford Lotus Cortina
Ford started a winning formula in the 1960s that’s still on the money today
Porsche Progression
MOTOR magazine’s reigning Performance Car king, Porsche’s awesome 911 GT2, will be de-throned by an even faster version next year
Mad Max Interceptor, 30 years on…
We pay tribute to australia’s most famous police car: the ‘600hp pursuit special’ from Mad Max.
2009 Porsche Cayman S performance review
It’s not Porsche’s range-topper, or all that revamped. So why is the new Cayman so good?
