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The best engines on sale – as chosen by Wheels
Off the back of the International Engine of the Year awards, Wheels picks its shortlist of the best engines on sale right now

The best crashes from the Goodwood Festival of Speed
Known as an orgy of automotive bliss, sometimes things go wrong on Lord March’s driveway at Goodwood

Next-gen Mercedes A-class harks a return to simple design
Mercedes’ design boss Gorden Wagener speaks on a less is more approach in design for the next generation of the brand’s hot-selling A-class small car

Ferrari 812 Superfast – Fast Facts
Know nothing about the latest Ferrari flagship? Here’s your cheat sheet

Group B rally greats head to auction in California
Single owner collection from the golden age of rallying goes under the hammer at Bonhams Quail Lodge

Motorsport’s Five Greatest Finishes
To finish first, first you have to finish. We salute those who achieve this by any means necessary

Land Speed Record Heroes
The mad geniuses behind the pursuit of speed

Culture Clash: The Fiat Abarth 124 in Japan
Picture this: Our Editor Alex Inwood in a bright blue Italian roadster, in central Tokyo, with a 180kg sumo wrestler in the passenger seat. Believe it or not, there is an explanation.

Epic sounding Le Mans prototypes
Listen to the wail of engines capable of 24 hours of non-stop punishment

Australia’s greatest ute, as decided by you
You – the Wheels readers – have spoken, and this is your winner

Top 5 Honda Type Rs
As we count down the final months before the new Civic Type R arrives, let’s look back at some of Honda’s best red-badged models.

The five most fearsome automotive widowmakers
Porsche’s unhinged 911 GT2 is back. We round up some of the other genuinely scary sports cars

Dry-sump lubrication explained
Dry sumps used to be the preserve of only the most sophisticated and hardcore race cars, so why are they starting to trickle into road car rockets?

Inside the Lamborghini Factory
Wheels goes back to the factory that Ferrucio Lamborghini built for an inside look at Sant’Agata’s past, present and future

Retro: 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K – Silver Arrow Special
Owned by actors, royalty, a Nazi general… and Bernie Ecclestone; the Mercedes-Benz 540K was a shining beacon of beauty and luxury for its time.

Australia’s best concepts: 2004 Holden Torana TT36
Holden’s Torana TT36 concept teased a high-performance rear drive sedan that could have been a desirable baby sibling to the Commodore

Porsche at Le Mans: 15 things you probably didn’t know
Porsche shines a light on the big numbers connected to racing at the Le Mans 24 Hour

Motorsport’s angriest men
Who’s on pole for a thrombo?

2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Prototype ride along
A sneak preview of Porsche’s most manic 911 ever – the GT2 RS

Ferrari and Shell: did they create the greatest car ad ever?
Ferrari and Shell’s incredible television ad from 2007 blew us away, and still has us gobsmacked

Rear drive sedan fun options after the Holden Commodore is no more
There is no replacing a proper red-blooded V8 Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore, but what comes close?

Stuntman Matt Mingay: Super truck crash and recovery
For Gold Coast stuntman Matt Mingay, a near-fatal crash threatened to bring down the extreme-entertainment empire he’s built over 20 years. But he swears he’s merely bent, not broken.

A BMW i3 in Norway Does the brave new world of EV’s already exist?
Norway leads the world in EV-sales, by a long way. We travelled there with a BMW i3 to experience the future of motoring.

Fast 5: The BMW M5 back story
The latest M5 has some big boots to fill, with a legacy of five generations of talent spanning more than three decades.
