Wheels October 2022 magazine preview

It's finally here, we've driven it, and the news is good.

Nissan's box-fresh 298kW Z coupe finally lands here in Australia and we get behind the wheel to deliver the early verdict on both the manual and the automatic versions of what could well be 2022's most eagerly awaited sports car.

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We also take Hiroshi Tamura, Nissan's godfather of the Z and the GT-R, out for some terrible ramen and discuss how the new Z has been developed, why it's never been flung around the Nordschleife in anger, and how telling a few alternative facts managed to get the Z project over the line with Nissan's top brass.

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Elsewhere, we've lined up every dual-cab ute worth its salt and pitched them into a megatest for the ages.

Some of the results may well surprise you, but it's fair to say this pretty much boils down to a tag contest between the V6 and biturbo versions of the new Ford Ranger versus everything else. Pick up a copy of the magazine to see which is the last ute standing.

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We pitch the two hottest hatches in the world against each other.

Does the new Audi RS3 have what it takes to knock a Wheels favourite, the Mercedes-AMG A45 S off its throne, or will it be advantage Affalterbach in a 595kW face-off?

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Not sold on electric vehicles?

Andy Enright takes Mercedes-AMG's EQS 53 and charges it on the juice from Australia's filthiest power station, crunching the numbers to figure out whether juicing your EV up on brown coal is an environmental catastrophe.

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There's all the beta on the behemoth Toyota Tundra monster ute that's on its way Down Under, drives of the GWM Haval H6 GT, the Aston Martin DBX 707, the Cupra Formentor VZx and the Porsche 911 GTS.

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We wave goodbye to the Ford Focus ST, run the Lamborghini Gallardo under the Modern Classic lens and welcome a Ford Escape ST-Line PHEV into the Wheels garage.

There's a stack more but we don't want to issue too much in the way of spoilers.

Look for the Nissan Z on the cover of the October issue of Wheels, on shelves from September 19th – or you can subscribe here from just $59. Well, what are you waiting for?

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