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Porsche 935 GT1
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The Weekend Read: Moving Mountains

Porsche casually tosses us the keys to its track-honed 935 and GT1 race cars and points to the Mt Panorama circuit. We oblige

Renault Avantime
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Sunday Roast: Why the French have shamed us

French interest in all things motoring puts us in the basket as the Poms

Mazda MX-5 Cape York
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The Weekend Read: Trip to the Tip

Real men don’t need a four-wheel-drive to visit the northernmost part of Australia. All they need is Mazda’s MX-5 and an inflatable gecko

Wheels Gold Star Value Awards 2014
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Wheels Gold Star Value Awards

We’ve crunched all the data so you don’t have to. Here’s our definitive guide to Australia’s best-value cars

Sunday Roast: V8 Supercars
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Sunday Roast: Why V8 Supercars has to change or die

For Bathurst to remain The Great Race, and for V8 Supercars as a race series, it simply has to change

Bathurst Top 50 Moments
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Bathurst’s top 50 moments

Time on your hands during the biggest week in Australian motor sport? Wheels compiles its list of the 50 most memorable moments of the great race

Paris Motor Show 2014
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The Weekend Read: Paris Motor Show 2014

Wheels is walking the floor of the Paris Motor Show as the world’s biggest car makers launch a host of exciting new metal – everything from fuel-sipping commuter fare to ground-shaking supercars

Audi S1 Quattro Group B
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Audi S1 Group B hot lap video

We hitch a ride in one of the most iconic cars in rally history

Bruce Garland Isuzu D Max Dakar
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The Weekend Read: Australasian Safari revisited

As the heat, dust and heartbreak of the 2014 Australasian Safari starts to settle, we revisit our catch-up with cross-country champion Bruce Garland ahead of the 2010 event

Australia car recalls record 2014
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Recall record: what’s wrong with our cars?

Australia is on track for a record million-plus recalled vehicles this year. More cars will be recalled in 2014 than sold

Ricky Muir
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Tricky Muir

A motoring enthusiast with the balance of power in Canberra sounds like good news for petrolheads, but is it? Wheels talks to Ricky Muir

Ian Callum Jaguar designer
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Design secrets of the Jaguar XE

Ian Callum tells Wheels how he designed the most crucial new Jag in decades

Mercedes Benz AMG ice driving challenge drift snow
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Five reasons you should drive on ice

Oh, you drift? That’s cute. Try belting a $400k hot rod when it’s minus-12C

Daniel Ricciardo red bull f1 formula 1
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The Weekend Read: Daniel Ricciardo

With Daniel Ricciardo establishing himself as the new star of Formula One on the back of a brilliant second Grand Prix win, look back less than a year as we previewed his step up to the big time with Red Bull

Robbo VE roadtrip Sydney to Adelaide
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The Weekend Read: End of the Line

In February 2013, Peter Robinson drove from Sydney to Adelaide in the Holden VE Commodore, the last clean-sheet Australian car, to reflect on what future generations will miss

40 Years of BMW M Division
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The Weekend Read: 40 Years of M

A smorgasbord of bucket-list BMWs to choose from, and the Nordschleife on which to thrash them. No wonder an invite to M’s 40th birthday bash was the hottest ticket in town

Holden first and last durability circuit 48-215 vs vf commodore
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The Weekend Read: Lion Hearts

Holdens first and last: Robbo retraces the original development path in the cars that bookend our manufacturing history

Australia's Greatest Cars
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VOTE: Australia’s Ten Greatest Cars

Do the world-class Holden VF Commodore and thunderous FPV GT-F deserve to be counted among the 10 greatest Australian cars ever?

Pikes Peak Mitsubishi 2012
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The Weekend Read: Off Peak

The 92nd running of the world’s craziest hillclimb, Pikes Peak, is this weekend. In 2012 Wheels went to watch Mitsubishi chase the electric record… and crash

BMW i3 and i8 in Australia
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VIDEO: BMW’s electric future

Genuine exclusives are rare. So when BMW said we could play with the only i3 and i8 in the country we jumped at the chance.

Six supercar road test
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Supercar nirvana on a mountain road

Six of the world’s spiciest cars and a closed road to ourselves. Welcome to heaven.

FPV GT-F 351 Test Drive
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FPV GT-F 351 Exclusive Video

Nathan Ponchard visits Ford’s proving grounds to take the new GT-F to its limits… and beyond

Wicked Campers
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The Weekend Read: Ways of the Wicked

Backpackers’ cheap ticket to ride, or defaced deathtrap? We head to Byron to try the budget campervan experience

Friday rant car teaser
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Friday rant: Just stop teasing!

Car companies are taking the slow release of information about new models to ridiculous extremes, and we’ve had enough