1990 Lamborghini Diablo: retro series

It took Lamborghini 17 years to reprise the legendary Countach

Remembering Bill Tuckey: Quints drives a V12 Jaguar

Everyone loves a roadtrip. Even more so when someone possessing the talent, passion and appreciation of prose as when former Wheels editor Bill Tuckey was moved to take up the quill. Part Hunter S Thompson, part Kerouac, but so uniquely Tuckey, sit back and re-live Romsey Quints's classic piece of longform motoring journalism from 1977 – Long Day’s Journey into Johtown.

Nissan GT-R in the Shaky Isles

Who said you need to fly halfway around the world to find mind-bending mountain scenery mixed with class-A driver's roads? We crossed the ditch, grabbed a Nissan GT-R, and went in search of blacktop to rival Europe's finest. Choice, bro ...

Alfa Romeo 1750 Berlina in Italy

In 1968, a former Wheels editor scored what was then a very rare invitation on an international launch. Here’s what unfolded in that Alfa Romeo 1750 on Italy’s Amalfi Coast.

Alfa Romeo 1750 Berlina review

Press conference, Italian style

Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ: Wheels Car of the Year 2012 Winner

The engineering may be conventional, but the execution is exceptional. The Toyobaru twins’ focus on affordable, involving driving enjoyment propelled them, with tail-out attitude, into the COTY winner’s circle.

Wheels' 1972 Holden HQ Kingswood consumer test

Peter Robinson puts the Holden HQ through the toughest consumer test imaginable.

1972 Holden HQ Kingswood road test

Holden was annoyed the HQ didn’t win 1971’s Wheels Car of the Year. To show Peter Robinson how tough it was, Holden sent him on a day trip to Bourke. And back.

Subaru Legacy takes on the Australian Outback

What do you think would happen if Wheels brought in a Subaru Outback from the US and drove it in the Aussie outback?

Classic Wheels: Left-hand-drive Subaru Outback bush lark

The Americans had a problem: Where should they test their new Subaru Legacy Outback? John Carey was part of the obvious solution.

The Greatest Australian Car - EVER

How could Australia's only contribution to the world's vocabulary of automotive styles not make this list? Young Lew Bandt was the only designer employed by Ford Australia in the early 1930s, when the company's management thought...

Classic Wheels: Vanishing Point

History holds some epic drives against the road, the conditions or the clock. Or all three. Such an adventure made headlines in 1951 when two Queenslanders wrote a record for Darwin to Alice Springs, 1500 km at over 145 km/h

In search of ‘The Italian Job’ in a Lamborghini Miura

Former Wheels editor Peter Robinson takes you behind the scenes of his 1997 feature An Italian Job, when he searched in a legendary Lamborghini for the Alpine setting of its most famous crash

Classic Wheels: An Italian Job

This is the story of a beautiful car, a great road and the classic movie that brought them together

Classic Wheels: Le Mans Meets the Aussies

In 1984 Peter Brock and Larry Perkins took on the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Porsche 956 sponsored by Bob Jane, and Wheels was along for the ride - literally. Here is how it all came about

Classic Wheels: Albury-Melbourne in two hours in a Ford Falcon GT-HO

Covering 200 miles in two hours in a Ford Falcon GT-HO Phase III was always going to generate a compelling yarn. But even in 1971, on the no-limit Hume Highway, a photo of the speedo showing 145mph raised eyebrows

HO down the Hume

Wheels' 1971 review of the Ford Falcon GT-HO Phase III was written straight, withholding details of the author’s high-speed research. Here is the story of the Hume Highway drive behind it, originally published in sister magazine Sports Car World four years later.

Classic Wheels: Car Design for the Next 25 Years

In 1978, for the 25th anniversary issue of Wheels, we asked the leading engineers and designers from Ford and Holden to contribute their thoughts to the future of the car

Classic Wheels: Wings Across Australia

We pilot Datsun’s new Bluebird from Adelaide to Darwin in 30 hours to discover if the most Japanese Australian car yet is up to the challenge

Classic Wheels: A Dilambda in a Cave!

It reads like a film script ... this, I SWEAR, is exactly the way it happened

Classic Wheels: Donald Campbell and his Bluebird car world speed record

How Donald Campbell broke the world land speed record on Lake Eyre