Car Opinions

Ash Westerman: Thieves in the night

“The, er, ‘unauthorised loans’ of mum’s ’66 beetle were deeply covert operations that required military-style planning...”

WhichCar’s Friday Five

We scoop the 2021 Ford Ranger, Mazda3 pricing confirmed, Holden refutes takeover rumours, Honda ute catches fire when washed

Interview with ARB's Matt Frost

Matt Frost has spent a quarter of a century helping keep this ever-expanding off-road powerhouse front and centre when it comes to the gear wish lists of four-wheel drivers.

Electric drivetrain impress on road, but questions loom off-road

Is an electrified 4x4 future on the horizon?

Google turns your car into an information dragnet

Cars are inescapably sliding into the permanently connected world and you should be worried about it

The most anticipated 4x4s of 2019

2019 is shaping up as a massive year

What's next for Holden?

What does it mean for Holden if General Motors changes the way it exports cars into Australia?

The Insider: bumps in the autonomous road

News that police in California recently stopped a Tesla that was driving down the freeway while its drunk driver slumbered behind the wheel triggered more smiles than surprise...

How the Volvo XC40 won Wheels Car of the Year 2019

The backstory behind the XC40’s win

John Carey: The Hume enters the EV era

Carey ponders how useful the Hume highway charging network will actually be

Have no fear: EVs are only going to get better

Radical change can be deeply unnerving, but the revolution starting to sweep through the automotive industry shouldn’t be a source of trepidation, but something to be embraced

A day with a Ferrari 812 Superfast

How would you go driving an $800,000 Ferrari through Sydney traffic? Tim Robson did it… and he’s now got more grey hair to prove it

Chinese-built Lotus SUVs: is this the beginning of the end?

Geely’s massive $1.8bn factory gets go-ahead in Wuhan

What should you do before crossing the outback

Dying in the desert is an unimaginable fate but a very real possibility, here are some steps you can take to survive.

Editor's letter: Range anxiety is not dead

I genuinely thought range anxiety was dead. But, as happens from time to time, I was wrong

Driverless cars are going nowhere, fast

Even influential tech gurus agree that nothing is going to happen anytime soon.

Opinion: How to dig Bentley out of a hole

Volkswagen AG has put the clock on the ailing Brits

Why the 2020 Jeep Gladiator is one of the most hotly anticipated 4x4 of the year

Excitement builds for the Gladiator and Matt explains why it is more than your average ute

Does anybody believe in Nurburgring laptimes anymore?

Let’s face it. Things have got a bit silly at the Green Hell

Michael Stahl: Waking up in Porsche paradise

Stahl takes a trip to Laguna Seca for the Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI festival

Stephen Corby: surrender your licence? Balls to that

"Having a vasectomy must be a lot like the day you have to hand your driver's licence in."

WhichCar team 2019 new car wish list

These are the vehicles the WhichCar writers are most looking forward to in 2019

Top five 4x4 opinion columns of 2018

The beauty of an opinion is you don’t have to agree with it.

John Carey: the hot air of climate deniers

Carbon dioxide was identified before Captain James Cook made the first map of the east coast of Australia. How much the gas contributes to the Greenhouse Effect was discovered when Ned Kelly was a boy.