Car Opinions

Corby's rant: lying Germans

If I had a dollar for every time a car company has stood up and told me a bare-faced lie, I’d be able to pay cash for the new BMW it swore to never, ever build

Corby's rant: the Toyota blame game

History is written by the winners, we’re told, but it is just as clearly rewritten by the losers

Corby's rant: Alice

People who live in the NT are rednecks, right? WRONG! They’re actually smarter and leading the way when it comes to speed limits. Just ask Corby.

Dog eats Aston Martin

Bad dog!

Corby's rant: speeding

“It drives me to the point of wanting to assault police officers, possibly with baseball bats dipped in broken glass” Corby’s back and madder than ever!

Corby's rant: L Platers

Returning with another gripe, this week Corby takes aim at dim-witted and inconsistent L Plater laws.

Corby's rant: Why commuting is killing you

It's killing you, costing us all millions and turning kids into king-hitting cowards. Corby's back, this time on the evils of the daily commute.

Corby's rant: Holden's advertising clanger

Does Holden's 'We're here to stay' ad make your blood boil? You're not alone - just ask Stephen Corby

Exploding car art

Forget portraits or ‘impressionism’ - this is art we can like.

For sale: Schumacher's first title winner

Are you a little sick of hearing the German national anthem after a Formula One Grand Prix? You have good reason.

Shotgun wielding nude maims supercars

A completely naked man wielding a shotgun has caused chaos in Houston, America, and vandalised a collection of high-end supercars.

Kiwi 'Can Cars' rev up recycling

Sandy Sanderson lives in Hamilton, New Zealand and turns aluminium drink cans into amazing automotive works of art.

Aussie green car innovation fund

Wheels has stumbled across these shots of what is possibly the world’s greenest car.

Rusty wrecks are scale model miracles!

An Australian hobbyist is taking the car modeling world by storm with his incredibly detailed die-cast ‘wrecks.’

Amazing V12 artwork from wood, bone and fossils!

It took Algerian-born artist Eric van Hove nine months to produce ‘V12 Laraki’, an incredibly detailed and decorated reproduction of a Mercedes-Benz V12 engine, using a range of decidedly non-automotive materials including wood, mother of pearl, goat bone, onyx, stone, cow horn, and ammonite fossils.

NO SALE: $10m offer for 'F1' plate rejected

British car tuning guru Afzal Kahn claims he has turned down an offer of more than six million pounds ($10.4m) for his 'F1' registration plate.

Bueller? Bueller? Iconic home up for sale

The Illinois home made famous in the 1980s blockbuster Ferris Buller’s Day Off is up for sale for $1.5 million USD.

World's most expensive traffic jam

Now this is a traffic jam you'd almost want to be caught in.

Man builds Aston Martin with 3D printer

Say what you want about New Zealanders, but they’re a resourceful bunch.

It's a Fur-rari!

In a stroke of design genius or supercar butchery an English Ferrari owner has covered his $600,000 599 in…velvet.

Chinese driver pitches tent in protest

Remember that Chinese motorist who smashed his own $428,000 Maserati Quattroporte to bits with sledge hammers in protest of his dealer’s shoddy service? It's happened again.

The $200,000 video game that comes with a free car

Is this the world’s most expensive video game?

Video: Car survives Tornado strike

Reckon your car's tough? It's got nothing on this 'Tornado Intercept Vehicle', which copped a direct hit from wedge tornado in Kansas yesterday

Man smashes own Maserati in protest

Most of us love our dream cars. Wash them tenderly and polish out their imperfections. Not smash them to bits with sledgehammers.