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Finke Desert Race: Wheels takes to the track
Toby Hagon’s Finke preparations ramp up as his Team Wheels co-driver, Bernie Webb, does a track recce in their Mazda BT-50
1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28: retro series
More racing success beckoned for the second-generation Camaro
A spirited Tassie drive in a BMW 7 Series
Low-tech Tasmanian whisky gurus meet high-tech Bavarian limo
Throwback Thursday: Daniel Ricciardo joins Red Bull
Two years ago, Daniel Ricciardo scored his maiden at the Canadian F1 Grand Prix. We go back to when the young Aussie scored his Red Bull Racing seat alongside world champion Sebastian Vettel
The fight for Finke Desert Race glory
Winning one Finke Desert Race title in a year is enough for most competitors. For some, though …
Archive: 25 Greatest Muscle Cars of All Time
Brains may be invaluable for all that cerebral stuff, but for a purely visceral hit, brawn rules, so take your pick from 25 of the best heavy-metal heroes of the last 50 years.
A history of the Finke Desert Race
Some bored blokes once had a weekend fang on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Now it’s one of the world’s biggest, toughest off-road races.
The worst pit stops in Formula One
If you thought Daniel Ricciardo’s bungled Monaco pit stop was bad, here’s a reminder of how explosive pit lane can get
Finke desert rally: prepping the Mazda BT-50
It’s known as the Bathurst 1000 of the Outback, so how do you prep a stock-standard Mazda ute for a 452km desert bash?
Meet Australia’s first Ford Mustang owner
Shock jock Tom Elliott’s mid-life mission to return to his muscle car roots ends happily
Holden Special Vehicles’ Top 10 Greatest Hits
We take a look back at 10 of the best-ever HSVs. And one we hope they will build.
Finke desert rally: Wheels goes bush – or bust
No one in their right mind would subject themselves to a two-day, outback 4WD torture test, but one Wheels writer is not in his right mind
Senna’s F1 brilliance at Monaco
Sit back, turn it up and let the brilliance unfold. Senna at Monaco, fully lit in his McLaren
Archive: 2011 Ford Mustang GT review
Never mind the car; can we have the engine?
Hot hatch class of 2011 comparison review
Forced induction front-drive fours (and a five) plus two without turbos and two with all-wheel drive make up our field of so-hot-right-now hatches.
James Warburton talks V8 Supercars
V8 Supercars is still Australia’s top motorsport category, but for how long? CEO James Warburton talks candidly to Wheels about the rising GT3 threat, a future without Falcons and Commodores, and more
Commodore goes hatchback, no sedan
Sedan no more as next large Holden gets a tailgate
Death of the manual car
Manual gearbox no longer key to a bargain basement showroom price
Toyota 86 Series: The kids could rough-up the pros, says Glenn Seton
Track legend warns it won’t be easy for the invited gun professionals against a bunch of youngsters with pace and attitude…
AORC 2010 Finke Desert Race
The Finke Desert Race in central Oz is known as the Bathurst 1000 of off-road racing. Glenn Butler risks the mother of all lung oysters to report from the eye of the storm.
Tributes flow in for former Wheels editor Bill Tuckey
UPDATED: Tributes from readers, former co-workers and the Australian car industry have flowed into Wheels since the death of former editor Bill Tuckey
Cars of 1966: Bill Tuckey remembered
It was the prerogative of successive Wheels editors to provide a highly personal account each December of the cars they had driven that year.
Bill Tuckey reflects on the cars of 1966
In a Wheels tradition that lasted nearly five decades, editors summed up annually in a personal column all the cars they had driven. Here is the late Bill Tuckey’s view of 1966.
Remembering Bill Tuckey: Holden Monaro drives around Australia
A Holden Monaro, flexible speed limits and the open road; the joys of driving around Australia in a by-gone era, as only Bill Tuckey could describe it
