CLASSIC WHEELS
Classic Wheels: Gilltrap’s Auto Museum review
Former Wheels editor Bill Tuckey used a number of clever ways of making readers think the magazine had more resources – and reach – than the smell of an oily rag allowed. Rather than send staffer Tom Floyd to Gilltrap’s Auto Museum on the Gold Coast, Tuckey asked him to pen a series of letters between journalist and editor to write a story on a landmark that Wheels never officially visited
Archive: Ford Falcon XR6 vs Vauxhall Omega vs Ford Scorpio vs Jaguar XJ
Peter Robinson took the quickest Falcon to Britain and drove it against the home market. The Poims had never seen it, but now they want it
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…
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
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
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
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..
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
1986 Giocattolo Group B: retro series
Australian-made Alfa-Romeo-in-drag from the decade of excess
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
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
Archive: Ford’s Greatest Hits 2012
The Focus ST proves there’s blue-oval appeal beyond Broadmeadows. We dig into the global catalogue for Ford’s latest hits… and the ones we missed.
Archive: 2011 McLaren MP4-12C review
McLaren’s new supercar has the Ferrari 458 Italia squarely in its sights. But does the Mac daddy’s stunning tech and staggering performance actually push it into the ‘hyper’ class above?
Archive: BMW 1M vs Audi TT RS vs Porsche Cayman comparison review
The hi-po battle among the German brands is raging hotter and on more fronts than ever before. BMW’s most affordable M car ever opens both barrels on Audi’s TT RS and Porsche’s Cayman
1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28: retro series
More racing success beckoned for the second-generation Camaro
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
