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SAVE on the cover price FREE delivery to your doorstep PLUS free digital access to the Wheels archive DIGITAL ACCESS INCLUDES: Browse every issue of Wheels dating back to 1953 – that’s over 800 issues Early access to the latest issue before it goes o
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Nissan 350z
As far as hackneyed sales slogans go, ‘now is the time to buy’ has to be right up there. But just as a broken watch is correct twice a day, once in a while, now is indeed the right time to put your hand in your pocket for something. When that somethi
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Ford targets Dakar with V8 Raptor T1+
FRESH FROM its success at the Finke Desert Race, Ford has levelled up another few notches and is targeting the arduous Dakar Rally 2025 with the full-on Raptor T1+, which saw its public debut on the Earl of Richmond’s driveway at this year’s Goodwood
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Cyber GTS? Hell, yes
MG HAS EVOKED the spirit of the MG B GT to create a four-seat coupe version of the Cyberster – and it could be in showrooms as early as next year. Called the Cyber GTS, it made its debut on the hillclimb at Goodwood as part of MG’s starring role as t
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Ford targets Dakar with V8 Raptor T1+
FRESH FROM its success at the Finke Desert Race, Ford has levelled up another few notches and is targeting the arduous Dakar Rally 2025 with the full-on Raptor T1+, which saw its public debut on the Earl of Richmond’s driveway at this year’s Goodwood
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WHEELS EDITOR Andy Enright ART DIRECTOR Felipe Ubilla HEAD OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ellen Dewar CONTRIBUTORS Nathan Ponchard, Alex Inwood, Dylan Campbell, Daniel Gardner, Tony O’Kane, Damion Smy, Matt Prior, Kris Culmer, Richard Lane, Illya Verpraet & Jack Har
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Why You Should Keep Your Tyres For Longer
EUROPEAN REGULATION R117-04 could change the way we buy and use tyres in Australia. This ruling, which came into force in Europe at the start of July, ensures that a tyre must offer identical wet weather braking performance when at its legal 1.6mm mi
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WHEELS EDITOR Andy Enright ART DIRECTOR Felipe Ubilla HEAD OF PHOTOGRAPHY Ellen Dewar CONTRIBUTORS Nathan Ponchard, Alex Inwood, Dylan Campbell, Daniel Gardner, Tony O’Kane, Damion Smy, Matt Prior, Kris Culmer, Richard Lane, Illya Verpraet & Jack Har
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How Will The New M5 Compare?
THE QUESTION NOW is a simple one: can the seventh M5 in the series, the G90, teach the F90 M5 CS anything at all? Or is it doomed to be humiliated by its immediate predecessor? We won’t know for sure until we’ve driven the new model in its final prod
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Cyber GTS? Hell, yes
MG HAS EVOKED the spirit of the MG B GT to create a four-seat coupe version of the Cyberster – and it could be in showrooms as early as next year. Called the Cyber GTS, it made its debut on the hillclimb at Goodwood as part of MG’s starring role as t
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The Greatest BMW M5 Ever: The Moderns
THE DIVIDING LINE between what we regard as the classic M5s and the moderns was not difficult to find. Even were it not so obvious, I guess we’d have still split them down the middle to provide two tests of equal numbers; but in the end a purely chro
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30 Days
1. BMW’s M3 has been refreshed. Vertical DRLs and lightweight forged alloys debut, and there’s a new steering wheel and updated infotainment. The Competition gets a 15kW boost to 390kW, slashing half a second from the 0-200km/h time, which now stands
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The Ev You Always Promised Yourself?
AT 10AM ON A Saturday I slid into the semi-sporting front passenger seat of a new Ford Capri EV, the already controversial coupe-SUV the company launched moments ago and wants to sell in healthy numbers beside its sibling, the Explorer EV. The car wa
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Lots To Like, Niggles To Fix
HERE WE ARE then: crunch time for Mazda’s biggest, grandest and boldest SUV yet. After four months and 4500km, the CX-90 is heading back to company HQ, which means we now have to answer the questions we posed at the beginning: is it a worthy flagship
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The Ev You Always Promised Yourself?
AT 10AM ON A Saturday I slid into the semi-sporting front passenger seat of a new Ford Capri EV, the already controversial coupe-SUV the company launched moments ago and wants to sell in healthy numbers beside its sibling, the Explorer EV. The car wa
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Not-so-mini Mini Serves Up Big Helpings Of Fun
MINI HAS supersized the Countryman. No, really. There aren’t too many cars that have grown so much in such a short lifespan. Let’s break out the tape measure and apply some cold, hard data to that assertion. The first-gen R60 Countryman (2010-2016) m
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The Greatest BMW M5 Ever: The Classics
THEY SIT TOGETHER, insouciant, on the side of a hill. They are arranged in age order from first to last and the sense of occasion is palpable. Six cars, the oldest model dating from some 37 years before the newest. It’s an extraordinary sight, one th
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Not-so-mini Mini Serves Up Big Helpings Of Fun
MINI HAS supersized the Countryman. No, really. There aren’t too many cars that have grown so much in such a short lifespan. Let’s break out the tape measure and apply some cold, hard data to that assertion. The first-gen R60 Countryman (2010-2016) m
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Squeaky Wheel
SWISS WATCHES, along with Harlan Estate cabernet and opioid-based pain killers, are things I’ve always actively tried to avoid building habitual relationships with. The main reason being the budget for even a small collection can get out of hand very
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Aston’s Most Exclusive Club Has A Glorious V12 Manual
THE NEW METAL THAT MATTERS, TRIALLED AND TESTED IT’S NOT often I find myself grateful to be stuck in a traffic-jam. But if some kind soul had not pulled out of a side road without looking and not then been biffed by the next car to come down the stre
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Top-tier Touareg Delivers What You Expect From That R Badge
I HAVEN’T EVEN put it in Sport mode yet and my palms are sweating as I attempt to pivot this 2433kg luxury SUV through corners at a pace that seems, frankly, unrealistic. A sequence of esses with a s-s-s-heer drop on one side urges me to remain calm,
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Polar Express
THE TECHNICAL TERM is an Antarctic vortex; a cold front dragging air from the south onto the windward side of the Great Dividing Range. Right now it’s manifesting as intermittent rain at sea level, snow on the hills inland and is slashing sideways th
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Why You Should Keep Your Tyres For Longer
EUROPEAN REGULATION R117-04 could change the way we buy and use tyres in Australia. This ruling, which came into force in Europe at the start of July, ensures that a tyre must offer identical wet weather braking performance when at its legal 1.6mm mi
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Talking Torsion
FERRARI CAN BE coy about quoting absolute torsional rigidity figures, but the 296 GTS benefits from extra carbonfibre reinforcements across the lower sills and both the A and B pillars, making it fully 50 percent torsionally stiffer than its predeces
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Jaguar Xe
JAGUAR IS ON one heck of a cull. We recently featured the F-Type in Driven To Extinction, but the knife’s going way deeper than the coupe and roadster. Shortly after revealing its F-Pace 90th Anniversary model in May, Jaguar’s Castle Bromwich plant h
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Inbox
Keep it tight (no more than 200 words) and do include your suburb if via email: [email protected] You can also have your say on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter (search for Wheels Australia) YOU CAN file this one under ‘old man shouting at clouds
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Inbox
Keep it tight (no more than 200 words) and do include your suburb if via email: [email protected] You can also have your say on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter (search for Wheels Australia) YOU CAN file this one under ‘old man shouting at clouds
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Squeaky Wheel
SWISS WATCHES, along with Harlan Estate cabernet and opioid-based pain killers, are things I’ve always actively tried to avoid building habitual relationships with. The main reason being the budget for even a small collection can get out of hand very
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Charge Of The Light Brigade
ELECTRIC CARS ARE are the new frontier, the opportunity to try something new. Or not. If we’re realistic, the pool of adventurous early adopters who are open to buying a radical-looking starship has been mostly exhausted by now. Many other buyers, ev
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Things That Go Bump In The Morning
DARK, COLD, EARLY starts are part of the gig if you sign up to be a car photographer but even after all these years I’m still not a natural. Today I’m on dog-walking duties at, checks clock, 6:02 am. It’s not quite windscreen defrost territory, but i
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