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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!
Bucket List: Lamborghini Countach QV
A Countach, the 5000QV version no less, is parked in front of me and its owner is actually going to let me drive it
Bucket List: Renault Alpine A110
I’ve had a lifelong lust for two particular cars. Both giant-killers in racing and rallying during my fascinated childhood, and both happen to be rear-engined
Bucket List: Citroen 2CV
Right from the moment I first saw the Citroen 2CV, in imported British car magazines sometime in the mid-1970s, I wanted to drive it
ANCAP: Crash safety’s shooting stars
Changes to crash test standards throw the Australasian NCAP rating system into disarray
Mercedes-Benz S500 at the drive-in
The latest instalment of the Mad Max saga showing at the drive-in theatre was enough to set pulses racing among the Wheels petrolheads, but what would we drive to Fury Road?
Top 12: Cars we’d buy if we won Lotto
When we asked everyone on the Wheels team to pick the one car they’d actually buy, money no object, we were worried we might just get 12 Audi RS6s, or a dozen Porsches, but the results have been a big surprise
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
Euro Thrash: Rally of France
The hills are alive with the sound of boozin’. Loud, loquacious Frenchmen and thick-necked Germans stand beer to beer, shouting unintelligibly and honking their air horns, giving the Rally of France the distinct, disturbing tone of a football riot
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
