Technical
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!
How to
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
AdviceHow to react around emergency vehicles
What should you do when you hear a siren or see flashing lights in your rear view mirror?
-
AdviceCar maintenance tasks you can do yourself
-
AdviceHow often should you service your car?
-
Advice12 must-haves for peaceful family road trips
-
AdviceElectric power steering: the pros and cons
Engine tech
Bodywork
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.
Chris Brown’s supercar fetish
Surprise, surprise, R&B heavyweight Chris Brown is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Again. This time, though, he isn’t abusing women, he’s punching pop stars.
MOTOR mag’s Twilight Track Night #3
MOTOR mag heads back out to Sydney Motorsport Park for our third Twilight Track Night.
Ken Block’s new HQ
Youtube sensation Ken Block has revealed his new HQ, a custom built pad that took two years to construct
Review: Porsche Cayenne S Diesel
THE BOXSTER is extolled and the 911 drowns in a sea of purple prose, but it’s the Cayenne SUV that keeps Porsche viable, by accounting for 50 percent of all sales globally.
Review: Jaguar XJ V6
Starting now, Jaguar intends to broaden the choice with an all-new supercharged V6 that’s so good it replaces the previous normally aspirated V8.
Wheels Review: BMW Active Hybrid 7
Is the $222,000 BMW Active Hybrid 7 more about polishing owners’ neighbourhood environmental credentials or BMW’s?
Now the wealthy can play the enviro card
Is the $222,000 BMW Active Hybrid 7 more about polishing owners’ neighbourhood environmental credentials or BMW’s?
Wheels Review: Porsche 911 Carrera 4S
I’ve just had an hour I’ll never forget, on a road I just can’t believe in a car that I’ve just fallen madly, hopelessly in love with.
Wheels Review: Mini Paceman
MINI has a problem. It’s a problem Porsche faced and overcame, and now Mini is beginning to do the same.
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.
Top 10 F1 overtakes for 2012
Who says Formula One is boring. Take a look at our collection of ballsy overtakes from this season and decide for yourself whether these phenomenal wheelmen have no fear and no brains.
Whoa Factor – $70 000 Flying Trike
We mightn’t have the flying cars that TV promised us the 21st Century would bring. But very soon, there could be an affordable flying trike that you can jump in and drive/fly to your work.
10 great racetracks, a bird’s-eye view
We’ve all seen photos of cars screaming around our favourite racetracks, so here’s a different perspective.
2015 Audi RS Q3 review
More power and more kit for Audi’s updated hi-po SUV
In pics: 2013 Porsche Cayman
Do you really need a Porsche 911? Well, obviously, yes, but if you can’t afford one, the new Cayman makes a compelling case for buying the next best thing…
Porsche 911 – Fit, fab and 50
One of the world’s most exciting and recognisable sports cars turns 50 in 2013. First shown at the Frankfurt motor show in 1963, despite the occassional near-death experience, Porsche’s brilliant 911 has stood the test of time.
Wheels Review: Audi SQ5
Adding ‘S’ to the Q5 unveils a performance revolution at Audi: it’s the first S-badged SUV and the first diesel S. Significant, because the Q5 comfortably outsells its BMW, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz rivals globally and, locally, vies with the A4 as Audi’s best seller, so the $110K SQ5 extends the range at the top end.
Wheels Review: Renault Clio
After a six-year hiatus, the full Renault Clio range is returning to Australia, and what a brilliant comeback it promises to be. So great is this all-new, fourth-generation model that it may dethrone the Polo in the light-hatch class when it lobs here next October for around $17K. Sacre bleu! France is back in the segment it once dominated.
Wheels Review: Nissan Patrol
The new Patrol roughly approximates the dimensions of a tank. And that’s fitting because it’s already been attacked – actually, carpet-bombed – on at least three fronts long before it’s even due in Aussie showrooms in January, next year.
Check out the 2013 Pirelli Calendar
The world’s most coveted motoring calendar celebrates its 40th anniversary by boldly departing from the supermodel nudes that made it famous.
