CLASSIC WHEELS
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
From the Wheels archive: Wings across Australia – driving a Datsun Bluebird from Adelaide to Darwin
From the the July 1981 edition of Wheels, when we piloted Datsun’s then new Bluebird from Adelaide to Darwin in 30 hours to discover if the most Japanese Australian car yet was 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
