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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
Engine tech
Bodywork
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.
Render: Ferrari’s Le Mans racer
This amazing Ferrari render will make you wish Ferrari raced at Le Mans
First Drive: Hyundai Genesis
Could the Hyundai Genesis be the post-Falcadore fix for Aussie rear-drive sedan fans? John Carey grabs some wheel-time in Korea to find out
Toyota Australia posts $437m loss as closure looms
Shut-down costs add to financial black cloud over Australian car making sector
2014 Goodwood Festival: Most powerful production Jaguar yet
F-Type Project 7 special edition will sprint to 100km/h in 3.9 seconds, making it Jaguar’s fastest ever road-going car
The Look of Genesis
Coming Hyundai Genesis to introduce more conservative ‘Fluidic Sculpture Version 2.0’ styling theme
Australia to miss out on Toyota’s fuel-cell future
Hydrogen-powered sedan to roll out in world markets next year, but Australia faces hurdles
Head2Head: Honda CR-V vs Mazda CX-5
A fast and furious face off between turbo-diesel variants of two popular mid-size SUVs
First Drive: Ferrari California T
Maranello’s first turbocharged model since the prodigious F40 hits the right note
FPV GT-F 351 Exclusive Video
Nathan Ponchard visits Ford’s proving grounds to take the new GT-F to its limits… and beyond
Five minutes with Mark Webber
Aussie ace talks to Wheels ahead of his Le Mans return
Wheels July 2014 – Inside the Issue
Check out a video preview of the new Wheels issue, available now in newsagents and on your iPad!
Motor Sport Report – 23/6
Ricciardo struggles in Austrian GP; Audi wins Nurburgring 24 Hour; Ambrose gamble comes up short; Aussies take a bath at Spa
The Weekend Read: Ways of the Wicked
Backpackers’ cheap ticket to ride, or defaced deathtrap? We head to Byron to try the budget campervan experience
First Drive: BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe
Don’t buy that Audi A5 Sportback just yet, the 4 Series Gran Coupe stands out from the sea of sedans plying our roads
Shock! Harley unveils its first electric bike
‘Project LiveWire’ to gauge customer reaction and ‘sound like a fighter jet’
Google makes play for in-car control
Google will battle Apple for control of the in-car dashboard with software that will blur the lines between smartphone and vehicle.
New turbo laws open doors for Victorian P-platers
Vulnerable drivers to gain access to more cars, including big-engined SUVs
To Sir, with shove
Bentley Continental GT3-R celebrates the brand’s first race win on British soil in almost a century
Ferrari slashes price of hot new California
First California T due here later this year, priced $50,000 below the non-turbo model it replaces
Motor Sport Report – 16/6/14
Webber shines as Audi wins Le Mans; Aussies head for Nurburgring; Ambrose eyes chance to challenge in NASCAR
