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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.
Driving cars on Mars
Ever wanted to drive a car on another planet? Wheels had a chat with someone who has had the chance to do that every single day for the last decade
Classic Wheels: A Dilambda in a Cave!
It reads like a film script … this, I SWEAR, is exactly the way it happened
Bucket List: Ford GT
The GT’s road-ability seduces, just as it looks sublime. Ford’s everyman supercar did not disappoint with its styling, driving and performance. Simply brilliant
Bucket List: Lancia Aurelia GT
‘Less is more’ is a truism that overwhelmingly applies to the Lancia Aurelia GT. But that’s almost selling this breathtaking coupe short
Bucket List: Ferrari F355 GTS
I drove my first Ferrari – this impossibly red F355 GTS – at precisely 9:48am on a bright Wednesday morning. Three hours later, I almost crashed it
Bucket List: Ford Model T
For this film-loving car nut, the sight of Ford’s go-anywhere jalopy represents two worlds colliding
Bucket List: Holden Torana SS A9X
I was a teenager the first time I went to the Bathurst 1000 back in the 1970s and it blew my mind. By the end of that decade, this was the car to have at Bathurst: the Holden Torana A9X
Bucket List: Porsche 928 GTS
It’s taken three decades since Tom cruised that gold 928 across the big screen – and into a lake – for me to drive my automotive dream
BMW Drive Day Competition
CLOSED: 19 lucky Wheels readers will win a BMW Driving Experience including a hot lap in a M3 sedan!
Audi S1 at the Nurburgring
What’s faster around the Nurburgring, a supercar or a superdriver in a humble hot hatch? We sent John Carey and some bloke named Winkelhock to find out
Van-tastic Sandman: The MG TC of the ’70s
The closest thing to a “real” sports car in 1976 is a panel van … and the sportiest of the panel vans is surely the General’s Sandman. And after driving both we still believe that’s true … in a funny, roundabout kind of way
Ford LTD: Prime Ministerial material?
At 8.28am on Wednesday September 8, 1976, John Malcolm Fraser joined the Wheels road test crew. His mission: To discover if Ford’s biggest and best deserves number one spot in the garage at The Lodge
Farewell Ford Fairlane
In 1976, Australia’s 22nd Prime Minister was a special guest tester for Wheels, passing judgement on the Ford LTD. Some 32 years later, we returned to canvass Malcolm Fraser’s thoughts on of the last-of-the-line Ford Fairlane
Still moving Ford
In 2013, Wheels interviewed Ford Australia president Bob Graziano in the wake of the decision to pull out of Australian manufacturing in late 2016
Peter Brock in pictures
An Aussie legend would have turned 70 today. Here’s our tribute to the nine-time Bathurst winner
Classic Wheels: Donald Campbell and his Bluebird car world speed record
How Donald Campbell broke the world land speed record on Lake Eyre
2015 Geneva Motor Show preview
UPDATED: Wheels lists the pick of the premieres lining up for the 2015 Geneva Motor Show
Chris Harris’s car collection
One of the world’s most popular motoring commentators talks us through his eclectic garage, in typically candid style
Porsche 918 Spyder ice drifting
The $1.25 million 652kW/1281Nm Porsche 918 Spyder on a frozen lake in Sweden. Six minutes of sideways awesomeness
Next Top Model: Cars of 2015 – Pt. 2
Part two of our 2015 showroom special rounds out the cars due this year we’re most excited about
Next Top Model: Cars of 2015 – Pt. 1
It’s going to be a very happy New Year!
Top 10 motoring trends for 2015
As we launch into a new year Wheels looks ahead at the trends shaking up the automotive world in 2015
The Weekend Read: Marcos Ambrose & Daytona
Marcos Ambrose left V8 Supercars a two-times champion at the top of his game. In 2011, after two years in NASCAR, the Tasmanian was primed to deliver at Daytona. We were there.
