WHEELS NEWS

For sale: Ferrari-filled man cave
A 67th floor waterfront condo is up for sale in Chicago, but it’s not the views that are the selling point. It’s the 12-car garage.

Australia’s Race of Champions
Aussie superstars Mark Webber, Casey Stoner and Craig Lowndes will do battle in a world first race at Sydney Motorsport Park next month.

Lamborghini’s 537kW birthday present
Most 50 year olds get slippers for their birthday.

India’s first sportscar
India will soon have its very own sportscar, with production of the DC Design Avanti confirmed for 2014.

Caught! Merc’s new C-Class bruiser
It’s called the Mercedes-Benz C55 AMG, but what you’re really looking at is the replacement for the brutal AMG C63 performance sedan.

Caterham AeroSeven concept revealed!
Meet Caterham’s vision for its future car range – the all new AeroSeven concept.

New Skoda Octavia’s multiple rear ends
The latest Skoda Octavia arrives with three trim levels, two bodies…and two rear suspension layouts.

Holden’s model plan
Holden is understood to be studying a plan to sell both Korean and European models side-by-side in the same showrooms in the run-up to the end of local manufacture of the Commodore and Cruze in 2017.

Walkinshaw reveals corner-carving Colorado
Tuning house loads up Holden’s trade ute with performance tweaks

Ambrose rebounds from wallbanger at Richmond
Marcos fights back to strong 11th after Indy champ turns him into the wall.

Le Mans 09 falls to Aussie David Brabham and a rampant Peugeot
Despite dramas for both teams in the first 45 minutes, the anticipated battle between Peugeot and Audi never really happened as the Pug turbo-diesels dominated.

Ambrose just one place off a stunning Watkins Glen double
Daring tyres strategy gamble nearly pays off.

US Mail: The casualties of crisis
Wheels magazine’s US correspondent John Lamm reports from the war zone.

Oz’s cheapest car axed
Australia’s cheapest car, the $9,990 Chery J1, is no more due to safety regulation changes.

Parallel parking cracks the front page in the United States
It’s funny what makes news in the US …

Dutch truck cops 45 automated speeding tickets and it was parked
But the various State governments still tell us that the greed cameras are fool proof.

Uma Thurman to star in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Giulietta
Alfa Romeo uses Uma Thurman in a reworking of Shakespeare’s classics

India’s Tiny Tata Pixel
Indian carmaker Tata is on the scene again, following up its dimunitive Nano light car with an all-new concept: the Tata Pixel

Holden Ute tonneau cover now an option
Holden has announced an update to the VE Series II Ute’s options list, with the arrival of a new three-piece hard tonneau cover

Aussies still bypass electric cars
For many Australians, the perceived cost to own a “hybrid” or electric vehicle still outweighs the potential savings at the petrol pump

Hyundai Elantra launched from $20,490
It has long lived in the shadow of its top-selling i30 hatch sibling, but the all-new Elantra sedan now offers more power, more equipment, newer styling

Drunken dad uses nine-year-old daughter as designated driver
A man from Michigan, US, was arrested on two charges of child abuse after having his nine-year-old daughter drive his van to a nearby petrol station because he’d been drinking, police said on Tuesday

Porsche launches hardcore limousine
Porsche pulled the only surprise rabbit out of the hat at the Los Angelese Auto Show with the announcement of its hardcore Panamera GTS.

Pensioner turns mobility scooter into Thunderbirds’ Rolls-Royce
74-year-old grandfather, Barry Vann, has turned his mobility aid into Lady Penelope’s Roller from the hit 1960s TV series, Thunderbirds.
