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Target 300: Behind the Scenes
As the curtain comes down on Aussie muscle cars, we endeavour to set a production-car record in perpetuity and break a mythical speed barrier
The Weekend Read: BMW to Birdsville
It may not be the race that stops a nation, but it can be the race that stops a BMW. Our plan to drive a 7 Series to the iconic Birdsville nags fest was going brilliantly … until we hit rock bottom
Sunday Roast: Chinese drivers are crazy
Corby experiences the roads in China and decides Australia is not so bad after all
The Weekend Read: Mad Mex
In the 1950s, Mexico’s infamous Carrera Panamericana was the world’s most dangerous road race. We retrace its course in Merc’s mighty SLS to find out why
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
Sunday Roast: Why the French have shamed us
French interest in all things motoring puts us in the basket as the Poms
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
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: 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’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
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 Group B hot lap video
We hitch a ride in one of the most iconic cars in rally history
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
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
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
Design secrets of the Jaguar XE
Ian Callum tells Wheels how he designed the most crucial new Jag in decades
Five reasons you should drive on ice
Oh, you drift? That’s cute. Try belting a $400k hot rod when it’s minus-12C
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
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
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
The Weekend Read: Lion Hearts
Holdens first and last: Robbo retraces the original development path in the cars that bookend our manufacturing history
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?
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
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.
