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Classic Cars of 1968
Classic Wheels

1968 Gilltrap's Auto Museum review

Nine years after Gilltrap’s Auto Museum opened on the Gold Coast, Wheels finally ran a story on what was then Australia’s best car collection.

A Ford at Gilltrap's Auto Museum
Classic Wheels

Classic Wheels: Gilltrap's Auto Museum review

Former Wheels editor Bill Tuckey used a number of clever ways of making readers think the magazine had more resources – and reach – than the smell of an oily rag allowed. Rather than send staffer Tom Floyd to Gilltrap's Auto Museum on the Gold Coast, Tuckey asked him to pen a series of letters between journalist and editor to write a story on a landmark that Wheels never officially visited

Mike Borland: Racing car constructor
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Mike Borland: Racing car construction

Unassuming local engineer takes on the world, and wins.

Chris Amon driving
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Chris Amon (1943-2016)

Wheels remembers a great driver who would have been even greater, with a little luck

Ford Falcon XR6 vs Vauxhall Omega vs Ford Scorpio vs Jaguar XJ
Classic Wheels

Archive: Ford Falcon XR6 vs Vauxhall Omega vs Ford Scorpio vs Jaguar XJ

Peter Robinson took the quickest Falcon to Britain and drove it against the home market. The Poims had never seen it, but now they want it

Le Mans cars through the ages
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Video: Le Mans cars through the ages

Watch 90 years of some of the most iconic LeMans racers evolve in just 60 seconds

Mike Simcoe
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Mike Simcoe on his journey from Melbourne to Motown

Australia’s Mike Simcoe once pinned Monaro posters to his wall, now he leads the global team designing GM’s poster cars of the future

Land Rover in Maralinga, South Australia
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Land Rover Discovery Sport drives through Australia’s dead heart

We go to Maralinga, South Oz, 60 years after British atomic bomb testing left the earth and the people in fallout.

Alfa Romeo’s revolutionary gamble in development
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Alfa Romeo’s revolutionary gamble in development

Can five billion euro buy a future for Alfa Romeo?

Tokyo Metropolis
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Australian leads Honda’s outside the box car design

James Deane heads Honda’s Counter Design Team, the guys who say ‘but what if we did it this way?’

Man tows goats in a Lamborghini Murcielago
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Man tows goats in a Lamborghini Murcielago

People tow goats all the time, but when someone does it in a Lamborghini raging bull, we sit up and take notice

Ford Falcon GT and Holden GTS-R
Classic Wheels

Archive: 1996 Ford Falcon EL GT vs 1996 HSV GTS-R

This is the moment we’ve been waiting for – HSV’s big-bang banana against Ford’s awesome aubergine! Todd Hallenbeck chows down…

Neville Crichton
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Neville Crichton interview

If Neville Crichton’s life was a movie, critics would slate it as overblown, absurd, unrealistic and a load of bollocks.

Honda NSX
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Archive: Honda NS-X review

With the new NS-X hitting Aussie roads in November, the time is ripe to remember our exclusive drive of the original. Phil Scott was the only Australian journalist invited to test the prototype of its 1990 Honda NS-X exotic. He reports the Japanese are well on their way to making the world’s first truly sensible supercar.

Ute filling up at petrol station
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Australia is falling behind the world, lacking the leadership to stop

Stephen Corby laments the lack of political leadership and investment in infrastructure that’s seeing Australia fall behind the rest of the world in the number of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on our roads

Porsche Vision GT 918 Concept
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Porsche 918 LMP1 concept is jaw-dropping

A team of designers has put together a dream Porsche concept

Ford Falcon XR8
Classic Wheels

Archive: Ford Falcon EL XRs Review 1996

Wheels' 1996 test of the Ford Falcon EL XR8 and XR6. Australia’s best value sports sedans have been away for a nose job – and singing lessons, reports Bob Hall

Autonomous cars The future of driving
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Autonomous cars: The future of driving is already here

Autonomous cars aren’t just coming, they’re already here, and one day, soon, they may get so clever, and so safe, that governments will have to make it illegal for humans to drive. After the recent death of a man in Florida who was basically killed by the failure of the Autopilot system in the Tesla he was driving, questions are being asked about just how real-world ready this technology is.

How a supercharger works
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Go inside forced induction with this fascinating website

Shining a light on the once dark art of turbos and superchargers with some exciting and inspiring interactive explanations.

Holden VE Commodore
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Holden VE Commodore: Right car, wrong time

Holden’s superb ‘billion dollar baby’ accounted for everything… except the GFC

Holden Commodore
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Holden VE Commodore: The legacy

Wheels looks back at the impact the VE had on the Australian automotive scene

Holden VE Commodore
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Holden VE Commodore: The road tests

Wheels gets hands on with the VE, and puts it up against some stiff competition

Holden Commodore
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Holden VE Commodore: The spy pics

Wheels was on the story of the VE long before it hit Aussie roads, go back as we relive the days before the legendary Commodore was officially revealed

Ford Focus RS: 2010 Car of the Year
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Archive: Ford Focus RS: Car of the Year 2010

Our review of the all-new Ford Focus RS lands this afternoon, so until then, why not refresh yourself on the last Focus to wear the RS badge