Archive: 25 Greatest Muscle Cars of All Time
Brains may be invaluable for all that cerebral stuff, but for a purely visceral hit, brawn rules, so take your pick from 25 of the best heavy-metal heroes of the last 50 years.
A history of the Finke Desert Race
Some bored blokes once had a weekend fang on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Now it’s one of the world’s biggest, toughest off-road races.
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The worst pit stops in Formula One
If you thought Daniel Ricciardo’s bungled Monaco pit stop was bad, here’s a reminder of how explosive pit lane can get
Finke desert rally: prepping the Mazda BT-50
It’s known as the Bathurst 1000 of the Outback, so how do you prep a stock-standard Mazda ute for a 452km desert bash?
Meet Australia’s first Ford Mustang owner
Shock jock Tom Elliott’s mid-life mission to return to his muscle car roots ends happily
Holden Special Vehicles' Top 10 Greatest Hits
We take a look back at 10 of the best-ever HSVs. And one we hope they will build.
Finke desert rally: Wheels goes bush – or bust
No one in their right mind would subject themselves to a two-day, outback 4WD torture test, but one Wheels writer is not in his right mind
Senna’s F1 brilliance at Monaco
Sit back, turn it up and let the brilliance unfold. Senna at Monaco, fully lit in his McLaren
Archive: 2011 Ford Mustang GT review
Never mind the car; can we have the engine?
Hot hatch class of 2011 comparison review
Forced induction front-drive fours (and a five) plus two without turbos and two with all-wheel drive make up our field of so-hot-right-now hatches.
James Warburton talks V8 Supercars
V8 Supercars is still Australia’s top motorsport category, but for how long? CEO James Warburton talks candidly to Wheels about the rising GT3 threat, a future without Falcons and Commodores, and more
Commodore goes hatchback, no sedan
Sedan no more as next large Holden gets a tailgate
Death of the manual car
Manual gearbox no longer key to a bargain basement showroom price
Toyota 86 Series: The kids could rough-up the pros, says Glenn Seton
Track legend warns it won’t be easy for the invited gun professionals against a bunch of youngsters with pace and attitude…
AORC 2010 Finke Desert Race
The Finke Desert Race in central Oz is known as the Bathurst 1000 of off-road racing. Glenn Butler risks the mother of all lung oysters to report from the eye of the storm.
Tributes flow in for former Wheels editor Bill Tuckey
UPDATED: Tributes from readers, former co-workers and the Australian car industry have flowed into Wheels since the death of former editor Bill Tuckey
Cars of 1966: Bill Tuckey remembered
It was the prerogative of successive Wheels editors to provide a highly personal account each December of the cars they had driven that year.
Bill Tuckey reflects on the cars of 1966
In a Wheels tradition that lasted nearly five decades, editors summed up annually in a personal column all the cars they had driven. Here is the late Bill Tuckey’s view of 1966.
Remembering Bill Tuckey: Holden Monaro drives around Australia
A Holden Monaro, flexible speed limits and the open road; the joys of driving around Australia in a by-gone era, as only Bill Tuckey could describe it
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1990 Lamborghini Diablo: retro series
It took Lamborghini 17 years to reprise the legendary Countach
Remembering Bill Tuckey: Quints drives a V12 Jaguar
Everyone loves a roadtrip. Even more so when someone possessing the talent, passion and appreciation of prose as when former Wheels editor Bill Tuckey was moved to take up the quill. Part Hunter S Thompson, part Kerouac, but so uniquely Tuckey, sit back and re-live Romsey Quints's classic piece of longform motoring journalism from 1977 – Long Day’s Journey into Johtown.
Nissan GT-R in the Shaky Isles
Who said you need to fly halfway around the world to find mind-bending mountain scenery mixed with class-A driver's roads? We crossed the ditch, grabbed a Nissan GT-R, and went in search of blacktop to rival Europe's finest. Choice, bro ...
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Why Wheels withheld Car of the Year in 1972
No car of the year award will be made by Wheels for 1972. Wheels makes this announcement with a deep feeling of responsibility — and real regret.
Alfa Romeo 1750 Berlina in Italy
In 1968, a former Wheels editor scored what was then a very rare invitation on an international launch. Here’s what unfolded in that Alfa Romeo 1750 on Italy’s Amalfi Coast.