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1968 Gilltrap’s Auto Museum review
Nine years after Gilltrap’s Auto Museum opened on the Gold Coast, Wheels finally ran a story on what was then Australia’s best car collection.
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
Mike Borland: Racing car construction
Unassuming local engineer takes on the world, and wins.
Chris Amon (1943-2016)
Wheels remembers a great driver who would have been even greater, with a little luck
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
Video: Le Mans cars through the ages
Watch 90 years of some of the most iconic LeMans racers evolve in just 60 seconds
Mike Simcoe on his journey from Melbourne to Motown
Australia’s Mike Simcoe once pinned Monaro posters to his wall, now he leads the global team designing GM’s poster cars of the future
Land Rover Discovery Sport drives through Australia’s dead heart
We go to Maralinga, South Oz, 60 years after British atomic bomb testing left the earth and the people in fallout.
Alfa Romeo’s revolutionary gamble in development
Can five billion euro buy a future for Alfa Romeo?
Australian leads Honda’s outside the box car design
James Deane heads Honda’s Counter Design Team, the guys who say ‘but what if we did it this way?’
Man tows goats in a Lamborghini Murcielago
People tow goats all the time, but when someone does it in a Lamborghini raging bull, we sit up and take notice
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…
Porsche 918 LMP1 concept is jaw-dropping
A team of designers has put together a dream Porsche concept
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
Go inside forced induction with this fascinating website
Shining a light on the once dark art of turbos and superchargers with some exciting and inspiring interactive explanations.
Holden VE Commodore: Right car, wrong time
Holden’s superb ‘billion dollar baby’ accounted for everything… except the GFC
Holden VE Commodore: The legacy
Wheels looks back at the impact the VE had on the Australian automotive scene
Holden VE Commodore: The road tests
Wheels gets hands on with the VE, and puts it up against some stiff competition
Holden VE Commodore: The spy pics
Wheels was on the story of the VE long before it hit Aussie roads, go back as we relive the days before the legendary Commodore was officially revealed
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
Aussies win Land Rover 4×4 in Schools World Championship
Australian teens beat out 130 competitors from 12 countries in Land Rover engineering challenge.
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
Citroen C5 special editions say au revoir to iconic suspension
Final Citroen C5 sedans and wagons mark the end of hydro-pneumatic suspension after an innovative 62-year innings
