A return to glory for Detroit Motor Show

Cars were unveiled with pizazz - a pick up truck was once driven through the glass doors of the convention centre, others leapt out of waterfalls and dropped from roofs.

Cheaper Mercedes muscle cars coming

Mercedes-Benz’s in-house performance god AMG is working hard on two front-wheel drive-based offerings based on the forthcoming A-class hatch and CLA four-door coupe.

Electric shocks as Wheels Car of the Year finalists announced

There are more shocks than you'd get from licking a police Taser in the list of this year’s finalists for the prestigious Wheels Car of the Year award.

Wheels Car of the Year 2012: Finalists

There are more shocks than you'd get from licking a police Taser in the list of this year's finalists for the prestigious Wheels Car of the Year award.

How to outsmart car thieves

Not everyone owns — or can afford — super-safe cars. And with the latest data showing that a vehicle is stolen every ten minutes in Australia and one in every 120 households fall victim to vehicle theft, it helps to know some rudimentary ways in which you can prevent your car from being broken into and stolen.

Wheels magazine: Audi S6/S7 first drive

Within 8km of starting the twin-turbo V8 for the first time, the fire is muffled as the speed-limiter calls time just beyond 250km/h. And half of those kilometres were getting out of Munich airport and jumping onto the A92 autobahn. After the repressed driving culture of Australia, Germany is like heaven.

Audi A8 L W12

This is currently the most expensive Audi A8 on the books - the A8 L W12. In fact, it's the fourth most expensive Audi full stop, just beneath the R8 V8 Spyder and both versions of the R8 V10.

Wheels magazine: Geneva's Euro hatch war

Ferrari stole the Geneva motor show with its sexy new flagship, but the fierce action around the halls centred around the new breed of premium-Euro hatchbacks.

All-new Audi A3 debuts at Geneva

Audi has made the second big luxury small car reveal at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show with its all-new A3.

MTM builds 347kW VW T5 van

A number of things stand out in the press release we’ve just received about the MTM T 500, but a good place to start would seem to be the point where MTM says this bonkers machine is something “an unsuspecting observer might mistake at first glance for a VW T5.”

New Audi RS5 for 2012-2013

Audi has revealed first images of the facelifted 2012 RS5.

Audi A1 e-tron

IS THE ROTARY a relic from a bygone-era or the range-extender comeback kid?

New Audi RS4 Avant with 330kW revealed for 2012

The legend returns: this is the brand-new 2012 Audi RS4 Avant. Launching at the Geneva Motor Show in March, the new RS4 estate is powered by a 330kW 4.2-litre V8 and goes 0-100km/h in just 4.7 seconds.

New 2012 Audi TT RS Plus

Audi has pumped up its performance TT RS variant for 2012 with the launch of a more powerful TT RS Plus variant. With the promise of more power, more speed and more dynamics, the TT RS Plus will debut at the Geneva Motor Show and go on sale later in 2012.

Supercars stuck in snow

A pair of supercar owners from Seattle decided to go for a sneaky spin in the city's recent 'snowpocalypse'. While the owner of the Audi R8 seemed to cope with the wild weather, the GT-R's tires wouldn't allow it to have the same sort of traction.

WCOTY 2011: Guest judge Eric Bana

Sadly Jay Leno wasn’t available, so we let Eric Bana tag along. Here’s what he thought of the final six...

WHEELS MAGAZINE: Christmas (car) hampers

As Christmas draws near, it’s pens down in the Wheels office, and time to grab the keys to our favourite festive-season rides. (At least for a few days. We haven’t finished our Car of the Year Finals issue yet!)

Car prices going down

Smart shoppers know that the best deals on new cars emerge before and after January 1. In less than a month’s time, anything built in 2011 will be immediately deemed, like, so last year. Literally.

LA Motor Show: Big Merc to tackle the bends

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the AMG-tweaked version of its ML-Class SUV to the public for the first time at the Los Angeles Motor Show.

Only one Aussie in COTY 2011

After a week of extensive testing, and rigorous culling, a final top six will be selected, one of which will win the Australian automotive industry’s most coveted prize.

Lexus GS to attack 5 Series and E-Class

The executive sedan class has gone through a massive shake-up over the past six months, with the new Audi A6 and Jaguar XF 2.2d launching locally.

Live Blog - Day 4

Stinking hot Heathcote's drag strip is where the final part of PCC 2011 takes place, with the first off the rank the smurf blue feral-sounding Jaguar XJR-S.

Live Blog: day 1

We've assembled the fastest, baddest and meanest cars of the past 12 months, from screaming turbocharged four-pots, sweet sixes, atmo and turbocharged V8s and, for good measure a V10 too.

Gran Turismo 5

Driving game Gran Turismo 5 narrows the gap between virtual gaming and real-life racing. But by how much? We sent PlayStation hot-shoe Glenn Butler to Laguna Seca in an Audi R8 V10 to find out.