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Designing the future
The three big names of Australian automotive design talk to Wheels about their craft, what makes Australia such a great breeding ground, and what the future holds
Flame-outs: 12 car fuels that flopped
Who’d have thought that wood-fired motoring would never catch on.
Digital or Analogue: BMW M4 vs M3 CSL
Alex Inwood is a young gun who reckons turbos rock. Ponchard’s from the old school where purity rules. So who better to debate the merits of BMW’s finest M performance cars past and present?
Retro: 1965 Shelby GT350
Asked to add street cred, Carroll Shelby turned the pretty Ford Mustang into a racing thoroughbred
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.
Inside the Citroen cache of classics
Peter Robinson prises open the door to the Citroen Conservatoire, which protects nearly a century worth of French innovation
Nine things you didn’t know about the Audi Q7
Which high-tech features of the second-generation Audi Q7 won’t work in Australia? Here are some lesser known facts about the super-sized new SUV from Ingolstadt
Opinion: Why it pays to value art
Korean car makers have recognised that a pert bonnet line can shape a new model’s fortunes, and theirs.
Opinion: Haters who hate
Strangely, it is possible to hate cars. I’m talking about the deliciously irrational dislike we can form against certain cars for reasons we can’t fully explain
Ford Mustang vs. Falcon XR8
Ford’s new V8 superstar goes hunting with its Aussie mate
Opinion: Dumbing down Australia
Imagine how a new law proposing to make a frontal lobotomy compulsory for all immigrants to Australia would be received
Top 12: Infamous cars
Twelve notorious vehicles, remembered for all the wrong reasons
Mark Webber tells all
Aussie F1 star finally spills the beans in revealing autobiography
Top 12: Mould breaking cars
Twelve cars that shook up the status quo
Video: Manic M-Day
A quick-quiz competition gave 19 Wheels readers access to one fast prize
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
2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed
The fossil-fuelled garden party that is the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed kicks off this weekend at the English estate of Lord March
BMW M Drive Day Gallery
It’s a flat-out day for the 19 winners of Wheels magazine’s BMW M Driving Experience, driving the German brand’s fastest cars.
Watch the new BMW M6 in action
See the official launch film for the new BMW M6 range featuring the M6 Coupé, the M6 Gran Coupé and the M6 Convertible
LIVE: BMW M Driving Experience
We’re at Sydney Motorsport Park with 19 lucky winners to experience the Ultimate Driving Machine in its natural habitat
Bucket List: Ford Falcon GT-HO
It all began with a poster of Allan Moffat’s emphatic Hardie Ferodo 500 victory in 1971. By the time the yellowed Sellotape crumbled, a ghosted outline remained etched on the wall
Bucket List: Mercedes-Benz 220SL
Mercedes-Benz Australia pulled the sheets an absolute one-off that comprehensively one-ups anything else we had at Broadford. It’s an original right-hand-drive 220SL
Bucket List: Holden Efijy
Holden built one of the standout custom cars of the modern era. It won accolades around the world. And here I am, about to drive it!
