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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
Next-gen Chevrolet Corvette C8 image leak
Leaked image of Chev’s next-gen Corvette make us wonder if it will all be worth the wait
Combustion engines will be extinct by 2055: Continental
Continental says regulation will render combustion engines as quaintly antique as a saddled horse by the middle of this century
Best of the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2019
Our highlight reel from this year’s Goodwood FoS gathering
Melbourne roads become first ‘living laboratory’
Big Brother is watching: cameras, sensors and cellular data used to track cars, buses, cyclists and pedestrians in Melbourne
2020 Audi R8 LMS GT2 makes noisy Goodwood debut
470kW V10 weapon runs the Duke’s driveway before it finds somewhere to race
2020 Mercedes-Benz CLA200 coupe price and features
Mercedes-Benz CLA200 coupe spearheads the Australian CLA range, to be joined later this year by the CLA250 and CLA35 AMG
2004 Holden Torana TT36: Fast Car History Lesson
Concept car built for the 2004 Sydney Motor Show was hard to miss
Porsche’s exhilarating atmo manual heroes will survive in the EV future
Manual gearboxes and high-revving naturally aspirated engines have a clear future and will last for at least another decade, says Andreas Preuninger
BAC Mono R revealed at Goodwood
More than 450kW-per-tonne for this extremely focused supercar
Stability control of the future will be able to predict wet roads
Continental reveals its next-generation stability control tech will use data to make slippery roads feel like dry ones
Rolling art: Goodwood Festival of Speed in pictures
Wheels Editor Alex Inwood goes to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, camera in hand
Physicist 3D-prints a Lamborghini Aventador in his own garage
‘Dad of the year’ contender applies his smarts to build the car of his son’s dreams
2019 Genesis G80 Review
The Genesis that won’t die is back, this time bearing a G80 badge. It’s an oldie but a goodie
Headlight technology explained
LED, Laser, HID and Halogen, let’s illuminate the differences between lighting technologies
2020 Renault Megane RS Trophy-R on sale in Australia
Renault Australia announces Nürburgring FWD record-holder on-sale for general public
BMW’s new brute ute is no X-Class killer
German maker builds its third load lugger, but this one is more luxurious than ever before
2019 Lotus Evora GT410 Sport performance review
Quality niggles mar otherwise brilliant handler
Holden picks Commodore over Camaro for Supercars
Low-key announcement from Holden at Townsville race locks Camaro out of Supercar racing until at least 2021
John Carey on the Bosch Automotive Handbook
“In one very surprising way, the Bosch Automotive Handbook has failed to keep pace with the march of technology”
Who builds the better $100k sports coupe?
Does the greatest $100k sports coupe now hail from Dieppe or Can Munich’s revitalised M2 Comp take the top step?
Opinion: How to write a good car classifieds ad
Here are a list of dos and don’ts for car classified ad writing from our resident classified lurker
2001 Porsche 996 911 GT2 review: classic MOTOR
The 911 Turbo was a jet, but Porsche’s blindingly quick GT2 wiped the floor with it
Close up with VW’s Innovision multimedia system
VIDEO: checking out the new Volkswagen Touareg’s massive multimedia screen system up close
Drool all over the new Porsche 911 RSR
Side exit exhausts and the largest engine ever fitted to a factory 911. Bring on Le Mans
