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Wheels is Australia’s original motoring magazine. Launched in 1953, we’ve been trusted by generations of Australians to provide entertaining and forthright opinions on the good, the bad and the ugly of new and used cars. A world-class car mag with a formidable international reputation, Wheels covers the full gamut of cars – from sports cars to four-wheel-drives, economy to family cars – but it also covers the people, personalities and the power plays behind one of the world’s most dynamic industries.
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Upfront
MY NAME IS Andy Enright and I love the C8 Corvette. There, I said it. And I can already feel you judging me.
Let me attempt a little mind-reading. You’ve pigeonholed me as some sort of antipodean analogue of a Floridian dentist, a man unencumbered with anything much by way of refinement and who is blithely unaware that a cheaper BMW M3 Competition does just about everything better. Am I close?
I’ll happily take all of those on the chin and admit that these barbs are built around a faint germ of truth. That said, I have yet to pedal a Vette in socks and sandals, I don’t drive with a Cohiba sticking out of my head, I have no friends called Larry and I don’t own a golf bag, so I’m…
30 days
FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED IN THE CAR WORLD THIS MONTH
1. Mitsubishi has underscored its push to hybridisation in Australia. CEO Takao Kato said: “We will offer not only battery electrics but also plug-in hybrids and hybrids, and introduce appropriate products that will meet the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) set by the Australian government.”
2. BMW has shown its new M135. This will feature a 233kW/400Nm 2.0-litre turbo-petrol four. It can hit 100km/h from a standstill in 4.9 seconds – one-tenth slower than before – and tops out at 250km/h.
3. Jeep’s first ‘global battery vehicle’ – the Wagoneer S – has been revealed. It’ll get to 100km/h in 3.4sec, weighs 2570kg, develops 447kW and rivals include the Mercedes EQE.
4. Is your INEOS Grenadier wanting a little for personalisation options? Worry not.…
The wrap
‘MISTER 911’ HEADS TO BENTLEY
Dr. Frank-Steffen Walliser, known to most performance-car lovers as the man in charge of overall vehicle development at Porsche, has succeeded Adrian Hallmark as CEO at Bentley. Walliser joined Porsche in 1995 and headed up the 918 Spyder development team. In 2014 he took over as head of motorsport and then in 2019 became responsible for the 718 and 911 product lines, becoming head of overall vehicle development in 2022. Bentley will be getting a brilliant product guy, who inherits the business in a strong position after Hallmark’s shrewd stewardship. No news yet as to who replaces him at Porsche, but they’ll certainly have some big boots to fill.
A SINGER FOR MERC ENTHUSIASTS?
Why should Porsche drivers get all the restomod love? That’s what Hans Werner Aufrecht,…
Toyota GR SUVs are coming!
PERUSE THE GROWING line-up of Toyota GR models, which currently includes the GR Yaris, GR Corolla, GR Supra and GR86, and you’ll notice a key omission: there is no performance SUV.
Given GR’s mission is to make fun machines that “make car guys smile” you could argue the lack of a heavier, higher-riding SUV makes total sense, yet that doesn’t mean a GR SUV isn’t on the radar for Australia’s most popular brand.
Tomoya Takahashi is GR’s company president and, while on a recent visit to Australia, he told Wheels that it’s logical to begin to add SUV bodies to the GR model range in the future.
“To expand the GR brand, maybe those [SUVs] are needed as well,” he said. “Some people can only use SUVs because they have family issues, or…
EV3 sounds the charge
THE 2025 KIA EV3 electric small SUV – a rival to the Hyundai Kona, Volvo EX30, BYD Atto 3 and MG ZS EV – has debuted ahead of its Australian launch.
Kia Australia has confirmed the EV3 will arrive in local showrooms sometime in 2025 – joining other dedicated EVs like the EV5, EV6 and EV9 – with exact timing to be confirmed closer to its launch.
The EV3 is based on the Hyundai-Kia Group’s E-GMP modular electric vehicle platform – but, like the EV5, it has a front-wheel-drive bias and a lower 400-volt charging architecture.
The EV3, like the bigger EV5, is front-drive and gets 400V charging – not the all-wheel drive and 800V architecture of EV6 and EV9
Larger E-GMP electric vehicles like the EV6 and EV9 are based on a rear-biased…
Flat Chat
THE SMALL CAR in Australia is a category of vehicle that, if it were an animal, would be subject to some sort of UN breeding program with news coverage every time a freshly manufactured example was released from a showroom into the wild. But it shouldn’t be so.
Recently I drove a long-time jewel in the small-car crown – a new-generation Suzuki Swift. A rival to this month’s cover car, the MG 3, this Swift is not a facelift, it’s an entirely new vehicle – and when there’s a new generation of a small car, balloons should be falling from ceilings. Damn near public holidays should be declared.
It wasn’t that long ago that small cars were ferociously mauling the ankles of bigger vehicles in the Aussie sales race. Fifteen years ago,…
Squeaky Wheel
AS A YOUNG writer (many years ago) I was given a sage piece of advice: “As a journalist, you don’t need to know the answer to everything, you just need to know where to find the answer”.
It’s a principle that applies well to many things and a rule that’s served me well over the ensuing years. But just occasionally, a question pops up that can’t be answered via the usual oracles and it happened again recently: “What is a supercar?”
You might initially think this is one of the easiest car problems to solve but as I stood there considering the response, it became clear that there is no universal definition, and even the term itself is a subjective concept coined by I’m not even sure who or what. What do…
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Reinventing Cadillac for Australia
“SEDANS AREN’T dead,” says Mike Simcoe, General Motors’ senior VP of Global Design. On the face of it, that might seem a bit of an odd comment given that Cadillac is set to launch in Australia next year with a range of electric SUVs, but the transplanted Melbournian is clearly in no mood to mince his words.
“SUVs are a necessary evil,” he admits, before describing them as a “comfortable, rational purchase.” He’s clearly one of us, somebody who recognises that customer tastes are something that he can influence but, ultimately, not control.
With factory right-hook Lyriq crossovers confirmed for a 2025 launch over here and the Optiq compact(ish) SUV and Vistiq seven-seater likely to follow on their heels in ‘26, Simcoe clearly faces a challenge in getting Cadillac, a brand which…
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