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Archive: Nissan R33 Skyline GT-R
It’s a beast with a brain – combining high-tech engineering and old-fashioned attention to detail. Angus MacKenzie and Peter Nunn appraise Nissan’s brutal beauty.
1972 Ford Falcon XA review
With all the good points of the old car and a few new ones thrown in, Ford’s new one continues the “great road car” theme.
Original Shelby Cobra sells for record amount at auction
Check out this ridiculously awesome $18million Shelby Cobra.
1971 Ford Falcon GT HO Phase 3 review
In 1971, Wheels gained an exclusive first drive of the car conceived by Ford to win Bathurst, the Ford Falcon GT HO Phase 3 – and using that now-famous doctored photo. Even today, this edition stands out as the magazine’s biggest-selling issue.
2016 Pebble Beach highlights
This year’s Monterey Car Week managed to stir up all seven deadly sins with the sheets coming off an incredible line up of concept and launch vehicles that became instant legends.
1970 XY Ford Falcon GT road test
Bill Bourke’s GT Special goes into production to top the new range …
Kamaz Dakar truck chases VW Rally car on WRC’s fastest stage
David and Goliath battle it out in Finland.
From the Wheels archives: 1969 Ford Falcon 351 CID GT HO road test
First full test of Ford Motor Company’s ultimate sixty-niner, published in the November 1969 issue of Wheels…
1954 Ford Thunderbird: retro series
The original Ford Thunderbird was a smash hit, then daddy took the T-Bird away
1968 Ford Falcon XT GT review
A touch of hair-on-the-chest motoring in Australia’s fastest production saloon
The best stories from WheelsMag.com.au this week
If you’ve been too busy to spend your week glued to social media, don’t worry, we have your back. Welcome to our snack-sized roundup of the best stories of the past seven days.
Don Loffler: Holden Historian
Latin linguist’s literary life lampooning Lion lore
1967 Ford Falcon XR: 1966 Wheels Car of The Year
WHEELS magazine has, for the second year running, given its Car Of The Year award to the Ford Falcon
Classic Wheels: 1996 Porsche Boxster remembered
Porsche expects to build around 230,000 cars in 2016 and happily claims to be the most profitable carmaker in the world. Hard to believe that just 25 years ago the company was in disarray.
Classic Wheels: 1996 Porsche Boxster 986 review
It’s official: the Boxster’s as good as we all hoped it would be… perhaps even better, says Peter Robinson
1966 Ford Falcon XR: The great leap forward
Ford’s new XR Falcon has stolen a march on the opposition in the biggest possible way; we could be looking at the most influential new passenger car in Australia for years
Archive: Subaru WRX STi vs Mitsubishi Evo all-surface duel
It’s trick diffs at dawn when Mitsubishi’s tenth-gen Evo takes on Subaru’s STi in an all-surface shoot out.
1965 Ford Falcon XP: 70,000-mile marathon
In which the equivalent of 140 Armstrong 500s goes a very long way to demonstrating that there’s a Falcon in Ford’s future
1964 Ford Falcon XM review
Ford’s new challenger is at long last trim, taut and terrific. All this, however, may have come one model late
Video: The Evolution of racing helmets
See exactly how helmets have changed over the past 100 years, with this brilliant clip from Donut Media
1963 Ford Falcon v Holden v Valiant v Freeway
I had an awful dream last night. I saw a Falcon on the Freeway and it was Holden its own with a Valiant.
1955 MGA roadster: retro series
MG awoke from its post-war slumber with this sleek new convertible
1962 Ford Falcon XL Futura vs Holden EJ Premier
Here’s our comparison test of the two semi-luxury, status-seeking sedans that have set Australia agog
1961 Ford Falcon XK sales make waves
In spite of the gloom which settled over the motor trade just before the Falcon was released, the main result to date has been to expand the car market
