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Lamborghini’s composite factory is making carbon-fibre con-rods a reality
While the bulk of Lamborghini’s Research and Development is done in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy, it’s now opened a six-person Seattle facility to design forged carbon fibre composite components – including con-rods – for its future models
World’s first combustion engine in space built by NASCAR team
It’s taken a while, but the internal combustion engine is finally set to go into space thanks to partnership between United Launch Alliance and NASCAR’s Roush Fenway Racing team
AM-RB 001: How it compares to the McLaren F1
They’re 24-years apart in age, but Cameron Kirby pays respect to the lightning bolt on wheels that the AM-RB 001 will be benchmarked against; the McLaren F1
Alpina BMWs coming to Australia: What’s Alpina you ask?
With the announcement of an Australian distributor for Alpina coming today, Wheels looks at BMW’s association with the luxury performance brand, together with the tuning company’s history, heritage and the models now destined for our roads
Archive: Porsche Panamera Turbo vs Audi RS6 vs Maserati Quattroporte comparison review
With a combined output of 1100kW, these three Euro heavyweights combine luxury with sledgehammer performance. Let’s get down to business..
Bloodhound SSC car: 17 fast facts
Any vehicle designed with the sole purpose of breaking the World Land Speed record has to be a fairly special piece of kit. Here are 17 fast facts you can recite to your mates at the next BBQ.
John Bowe fights back over banned Bentley Continental GT video
Driver in banned Bentley film hits back at ‘do-gooders’
Josh Stebbing: Junior car collector
A passionate 10-year old boy proves that you’re never too young to start a car collection.
McLaren P1 LM breaks record at Goodwood Festival of Speed
The ultra-rare McLaren P1 LM crushed the record for fastest road-legal car at last week’s Goodwood Festival of Speed
2016 Ford Falcon XR8 Sprint: A Sprint to the finish
Farewelling a legend; Ponch’s emotional petrol bender in Ford’s final fast Falcon
Goodwood Festival of Speed: Ten of the Biggest Fails
No one likes making a goose of themselves, so when you make a goose of yourself in front of a crowd and it’s captured on film for posterity it’s far from ideal. Andy Enright takes a look at some of the Goodwood moments that these drivers would best prefer were forgotten.
Archive: Top 10 cars of 2013
It was a year when great new metal was bountiful. Here, in no particular order, are the Top 10 cars of 2013 that really moved us
Ford Falcon vs Holden Commodore: Behind the scenes
Wheels conducts the final showdown between the Falcon and Commodore in the upcoming issue.
Archive: Ford Falcon GT at 235km/h on the Autobahn
Peter Robinson’s attempt to take the Ford Falcon EL GT to maximum warp on the Autobahn
12 Future classic cars to watch
Fancy playing the classic car market? Here are twelve cars that are worth a look right now
1986 Giocattolo Group B: retro series
Australian-made Alfa-Romeo-in-drag from the decade of excess
Walter Hadley: Hearse coachbuilding
When it comes to the end, this is a good place to start
Archive: Peter Brock at Goodwood Festival of Speed
Peter Perfect and a bellowing 300kW VK Commodore gatecrash British motorsport’s world-famous garden party – the 2km-hillclimb show they call the Goodwood Festival of Speed
Chris Harris vs HSV GTS Maloo
The Drift King – and new Top Gear presenter – takes on the most Australian car ever: HSV’s tyre-shredding, supercharged GTS Maloo
Anatomy of a Le Mans prototype racer
Get under the skin of a 728kW Audi R18 LMP1 car and let your mind boggle
Five minutes with Allan McNish
Three time Le Mans winner, former F1 driver and protégé of Sir Jackie Stewart talks about victory, and explains why Webber is among his favourites
Archive: Dino 246 GT: Ferrari’s orphan son
Is it a Ferrari? Is it a Dino? Peter Robinson delves into the history of the much loved classic which was an orphan of sorts from day one
Archive: 1973 Ferrari 246 GT Dino review
Mel Nichols revels in the V6 glory of Ferrari’s first ‘budget’ sports car when it was released in 1973
Flat out around Spa Francorchamps in a Nissan GT-R
Wheels learns the tricks to mastering the Belgian monster
