CLASSIC WHEELS
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.
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
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.
