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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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Bodywork
GT-R RETROSPECTIVE: Blood Sports – Nissan GT-R
An awesome combination of applied science and brute force engineering grabbed Group A by the throat. Now, Nissan has unleashed the beast in road-going form.
GT-R RETROSPECTIVE: Car of the Year finalists – Nissan GT-R
Tradition or commonsense? That was the 1991 Car of the Year dilemma.
GT-R RETROSPECTIVE: Japan’s All-paw maulers – Nissan GT-R
Hot Skyline unleashed in 2007.
GT-R RETROSPECTIVE: Fully 6 (December 04)
FPV F6 Typhoon v Chrysler Valiant Charger E49 v Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R V-Spec
GT-R RETROSPECTIVE: Japanese Power Up
More mumbo, lower mass for Subaru, Honda, Nissan hotshots.
GT-R RETROSPECTIVE: Import review holds EVO promise
Car companies get a say in niche models policy.
GT-R RETROSPECTIVE: Killer Godzilla – Nissan GT-R
It’s a beast with a brain – combining high-tech engineering and old-fashioned attention to detail.
Night at the museum
For 60 years Porsche has built some of the world’s most desirable road and race cars. Now, the company has built a world-class museum…
A sense of Liberty
Will the new Subaru Liberty break cover at the New York Auto Show? Wheels’ Japan correspondent Peter Nunn reports from Tokyo.
Super sporty XK
The slinky V8 cat with a lion’s mane.
Panamera opens up
Porsche flings open the doors, delivers more details and reveals its four-seater GT’s Australian pricetags.
The striptease continues – some Oz Panamera specs revealed
Porsche’s GT will hit in October with S, 4S and Turbo models, and start from $270,200.
SLS AMG gets its wings
One of the worst-kept secrets in the automotive sphere is finally here – the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing.
Volkswagen Golf GTD
Surprise! Volkswagen officially unveils its diesel hot-hatch at a local German show.
BMW X1 breaks cover
First official details of the next baby Bimmer.
Base three – Mazda 3 Neo
Mazda looks poised for another home run with an evolutionary new 3 that smooths rough edges with an extra layer of refinement.
Audi pushes the oil
Once reserved for trucks and tractors, the diesel engine in its impressive modern iteration has even moved to the engine bay of the Audi TT.
Right of way
Samoa switches to right-hand drive.
What financial crisis?
We take the world’s most valuable car for a spin 48 hours before it’s sold, then witness the moment it defies the global downturn.
Ford boss tells us why he went for the four cylinder Falcon
It all makes sense, says Burela. And it also makes sense to bone plans for a local Focus.
Second coming
In a small Victorian town, a father and his sons are painstakingly resurrecting one of the most venerated cars in motorsport – the Porsche 917.
Porsche shows its track ready and street legal 911 GT3 RS
Get shouted down by the aggressive body language; hear it roar.
Skoda cuts loose with revised RS Octavia
It’s fast fun, with VW standards.
Bruce McPhee was a racer and a thinker
He was the first man to claim Bathurst poles for both Ford and Holden.
