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Browse our extensive collection of tech articles for DIY tips on everything you need to know to work on your project car. We’ve got you covered from setting up your first workshop, to mechanical upgrades, car care and much more!
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AdviceCar Airbags: how they work and why they’re important
While airbags are proven to prevent serious injuries and save lives, they can also be pretty dangerous, so it’s important to know how they operate
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AdviceDo I pay rego during lockdown? Answering your COVID car questions
Advice to keep your car in good shape during lockdown and to save money if you can’t drive
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AdviceDriving on snow and ice safely
Here’s how to stay safe off-road when winter adds snow and ice to the mud and grit
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AdviceHow to react around emergency vehicles
What should you do when you hear a siren or see flashing lights in your rear view mirror?
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AdviceCar maintenance tasks you can do yourself
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AdviceHow often should you service your car?
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Advice12 must-haves for peaceful family road trips
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AdviceElectric power steering: the pros and cons
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BMW DTM revealed
BMW has unveiled the car that it will mark its return to the DTM in 2012. The matte black M3 DTM Concept was revealed at BMW headquarters in Munich
The fastest way to spend $28K
Readers, we have a problem. The new Volkswagen Polo GTI has knocked the stuffing out of our Bang For Your Bucks award.
Bentley to build an SUV
New Bentley boss Wolfgang Durheimer has revealed one of marque’s worst kept secrets.
Motor Sport Report – 7/7/14
Ricciardo beats Vettel again; Brabham penalised in US; Ambrose in contention at Daytona; Whincup stakes claim; Gardner Jnr on the rise
Sunday Roast: Nature vs nurture
Parking inspectors – the most common carriers of the evil gene you’re likely to meet – are they made or born?
The Weekend Read: Lion Hearts
Holdens first and last: Robbo retraces the original development path in the cars that bookend our manufacturing history
First Drive: Audi A3 Cabriolet
Ponch puts a small convertible – and his manhood – to the test
Mazda sets date for MX-5
Enthusiasts shiver in anticipation as date set for Mazda MX-5 reveal
Lexus perfects faking it
You will be able to make your engine sound like anything you want in the new Lexus NX
Toyota tops taxed new-car market
Japanese brand takes No.1 sales spot, but grumbles over luxury car tax
Lexus IS to get turbo
New 2.0-litre turbo to fire up Lexus range
Holden recalls Commodores, Caprices
Leaking LPG lines, sticky valves pull Holden cars back to service centres
First Drive: Mercedes-Benz S63 Coupe
Robbo drives the brutal yet refined range-topping S-Class two-door
First Drive: BMW M3 & M4
If the eye-widening, hair-raising, sphincter-clenching all-new M3 and M4 are anything to go by, BMW’s revered M division is back
Maybach to return in 2015
Mercedes-Benz plans to revive the Maybach brand as its luxury arm, and there’s a chance it’ll come to Australia
VOTE: Australia’s Ten Greatest Cars
Do the world-class Holden VF Commodore and thunderous FPV GT-F deserve to be counted among the 10 greatest Australian cars ever?
First Drive: Maserati Quattroporte Turbo Diesel
New diesel model makes stylish Italian luxury car more affordable, with little compromise on equipment
Mercedes boxes on
Nine-speed auto will take gearing to new heights in forthcoming Mercedes-Benz CLS500
Motor Sport Report – 30/6/14
Conflict over Bathurst race dates; Ambrose climbs in Kentucky; Houston, problem for Aussies; Molly Taylor in Poland; West reigns in Assen rain
Sunday Roast: Seoul searching
Corby has tasted the future of motoring, and he doesn’t like it
2014 Goodwood Festival: New Ford Focus ST on the way
Ford takes the wraps off its updated Focus ST, with revised suspension, steering and styling and its arrival down under will signal changes across the rest of the Focus family
The Weekend Read: Off Peak
The 92nd running of the world’s craziest hillclimb, Pikes Peak, is this weekend. In 2012 Wheels went to watch Mitsubishi chase the electric record… and crash
2014 Goodwood Festival: Aston Martin teases futuristic digital concept car
The next concept car to join Gran Turismo’s Vision GT dream garage will be the Aston Martin DP-100
VIDEO: BMW’s electric future
Genuine exclusives are rare. So when BMW said we could play with the only i3 and i8 in the country we jumped at the chance.
