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Video: Le Mans cars through the ages
Watch 90 years of some of the most iconic LeMans racers evolve in just 60 seconds

Mike Simcoe on his journey from Melbourne to Motown
Australia’s Mike Simcoe once pinned Monaro posters to his wall, now he leads the global team designing GM’s poster cars of the future

Land Rover Discovery Sport drives through Australia’s dead heart
We go to Maralinga, South Oz, 60 years after British atomic bomb testing left the earth and the people in fallout.

Alfa Romeo’s revolutionary gamble in development
Can five billion euro buy a future for Alfa Romeo?

Australian leads Honda’s outside the box car design
James Deane heads Honda’s Counter Design Team, the guys who say ‘but what if we did it this way?’

Man tows goats in a Lamborghini Murcielago
People tow goats all the time, but when someone does it in a Lamborghini raging bull, we sit up and take notice

Archive: 1996 Ford Falcon EL GT vs 1996 HSV GTS-R
This is the moment we’ve been waiting for – HSV’s big-bang banana against Ford’s awesome aubergine! Todd Hallenbeck chows down…

Neville Crichton interview
If Neville Crichton’s life was a movie, critics would slate it as overblown, absurd, unrealistic and a load of bollocks.

Australia is falling behind the world, lacking the leadership to stop
Stephen Corby laments the lack of political leadership and investment in infrastructure that’s seeing Australia fall behind the rest of the world in the number of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on our roads

Porsche 918 LMP1 concept is jaw-dropping
A team of designers has put together a dream Porsche concept

Archive: Ford Falcon EL XRs Review 1996
Wheels’ 1996 test of the Ford Falcon EL XR8 and XR6. Australia’s best value sports sedans have been away for a nose job – and singing lessons, reports Bob Hall

Autonomous cars: The future of driving is already here
Autonomous cars aren’t just coming, they’re already here, and one day, soon, they may get so clever, and so safe, that governments will have to make it illegal for humans to drive. After the recent death of a man in Florida who was basically killed by the failure of the Autopilot system in the Tesla he was driving, questions are being asked about just how real-world ready this technology is.

Go inside forced induction with this fascinating website
Shining a light on the once dark art of turbos and superchargers with some exciting and inspiring interactive explanations.

Holden VE Commodore: Right car, wrong time
Holden’s superb ‘billion dollar baby’ accounted for everything… except the GFC

Holden VE Commodore: The legacy
Wheels looks back at the impact the VE had on the Australian automotive scene

Holden VE Commodore: The road tests
Wheels gets hands on with the VE, and puts it up against some stiff competition

Holden VE Commodore: The spy pics
Wheels was on the story of the VE long before it hit Aussie roads, go back as we relive the days before the legendary Commodore was officially revealed

Archive: Ford Focus RS: Car of the Year 2010
Our review of the all-new Ford Focus RS lands this afternoon, so until then, why not refresh yourself on the last Focus to wear the RS badge

Aussies win Land Rover 4×4 in Schools World Championship
Australian teens beat out 130 competitors from 12 countries in Land Rover engineering challenge.

Archive: Rosco McGlashan’s world land speed record attempt 1995
When you’re approaching the sound barrier, no mishap is small – but Rosco McGlashan still aims to be our first land speed record holder.

1990 Mercedes-Benz 500E: retro series
Stuttgart rivals combine to produce performance knock-out

Citroen C5 special editions say au revoir to iconic suspension
Final Citroen C5 sedans and wagons mark the end of hydro-pneumatic suspension after an innovative 62-year innings

Fiat Panda in the Northern Territory
We check out the Northern Territory’s new unrestricted-speed highway for ourselves. Not in a Ferrari, but a baby Fiat

Mark Webber’s 2004 British F1 GP Qualifying Lap video is all kinds of awesome
One-lap, no-holds-barred brilliance from the Aussie speed-demon as he wrings the neck of his Cosworth CR-5-powered Jaguar F1 racer around Silverstone in qualifying for the 2004 British Grand Prix
