There’s many classic American muscle cars which are well known and highly collectable, commanding big dollars in any condition. These are the high-performance versions of cars such as the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac Firebird, Plymouth ‘Cuda, Dodge Challenger, Pontiac GTO, Dodge Charger and more. These cars were purpose-designed two-door […]
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Cool Find: Huge car collection found in Alice Springs
A bounty of cars is set to go under the hammer in Alice Springs, as part of a vast collection from a recently departed local character. Graeme Phillips collected an enormous amount of Australian and international cars over his 81-year lifetime, with friends describing him as ‘larger than life.’ Fellow […]
The story of the great Aussie coupe run-out
Australia produced some classic home-grown muscle cars during the late Sixties and early Seventies, which brought American-style two-door coupes to local showrooms. Volume-selling four-door sedans were massaged as designers mimicked the best of styling trends at the time to create unique-to-Australia performance coupes, giving Aussies high-performance motoring with reliability, cheap […]
Australian Federal Budget adds Advanced Manufacturing Growth Fund
As a part of the 2017-2018 Federal Budget, an Advanced Manufacturing Growth Fund has been allocated for the manufacturing sector. This is to ease the pain to the components and manufacturing industries once Holden and Toyota cease local car production later this year. $100 million is set to go towards […]
New smartphone game includes Aussie classics; VL Calais Turbo, HSV GTSR W1
If you love Australian cars and are looking for a new way to pass the time on your long commute in the quiet carriage, there’s a new game out, called Aussie Wheels Highway Racer, for you which lets you enjoy some local classics on your mobile. Aussie Wheels Highway Racer […]
Top 10 Australian utes you probably didn’t know about
The coupe-utility was invented in Australia in the 1930s and often replicated the world over. With our Aussie-made utes on the chopping block this year, it’s hard to imagine we once had such a rich, diverse and colourful array of car manufacturers building cars here. With the influx of British, […]
Ford XD Falcon with 894kW 4.0 Barra turbo – Australia’s best sleeper?
To build a sleeper car that looks completely innocuous with no external hint that something monstrous is hiding underneath is a clever achievement. To build an eight-second sleeper that looks like an ordinary grandpa-spec XD Falcon is another level above that. That’s precisely what Tunnel Vision Turbocharging has created. A […]
Editorial: How to Resurrect the Australian Car
Once Holden and Toyota shutter their Australian production facilities this coming August and October, the Australian-built motorcar is dead, taking with it tens of thousands of jobs in the component sector. Australia will be the first developed country in the world with the capacity to build cars to essentially shut […]