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.

Campbell • HOLDEN IS KAPUT. BUT IN COVID-19, AND A POSSIBLE ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, THE SEEDS OF A NEW AUSSIE CAR INDUSTRY ARE JUST WAITING TO BE WATERED

Gen3 takes shape • THE FUTURE OF SUPERCAR RACING DEPENDS ON THESE RULES. CHEVROLET CAMARO IS LOCKED IN FOR 2022, BUT WILL IT BE THE ONLY NEW METAL ON THE GRID?

Holden brand winds up • + C8 CORVETTE ‘STILL COMING’

How to nail 532.93km/h • AMERICA HAS RECLAIMED THE ‘WORLD’S FASTEST CAR’ TITLE WITH A GOBSMACKING DISPLAY OF AUTOMOTIVE FORCE

More power, lower price • NEW V8 TURBO S PACKS 514kW HYBRID WALLOP

05 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT 500KM/H NUT JOBS

2021 HONDA CTR

VW’s 221kW hardcore GTI • MK8 CLUBSPORT SHOWS OFF GTI’S TOUGHER SIDE – AND THREATENS TO START SWINGING HAYMAKERS

HYUNDAI i30 N: CHAPTER

Vale John Lamm • COMMEMORATING THE LIFE OF A LEGENDARY WRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER AND WHEELS CONTRIBUTOR

Incoming • THE NEW METAL HEADING OUR WAY

The Market • SUPPLY ISSUES CREATE A NEW NUMBER ONE

Winning • Kia Stinger keeps on stinging

Mixed fortunes • ICE cars down, hybrids up

Inbox • GO A HEAD, TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK

The question • SHOULD AUSTRALIA IMPLEMENT A C02 TAX FOR ALL CARS?

Westerman • ”IT MADE ME REALISE: I AM THAT MAN FROM THE SPRINGSTEEN SONG, AND THE ENTIRE DATABANK SECTION OF WHEELS IS MY TV: 57 CHANNELS AND NOTHIN’ ON”

HOLDEN Monaro • SO MUCH MORE THAN A TWO-DOOR COMMODORE, THIS BIG COUPE STILL STANDS AS A HIGH-WATER MARK OF AUSSIE DESIGN AND INGENUITY

DATA SET

HOLDEN Monaro • “If you want to enjoy a ‘modern’ Monaro in all its brilliantly packaged glory, avoid the VZ”

Australia’s next F1 hope • HAVING BEATEN THE HOTTEST JUNIOR RACERS IN EUROPE IN F1’S FEEDER SERIES, THIS 19-YEAR-OLD MELBURNIAN IS POISED TO JOIN THE FASTEST DRIVERS ON THE PLANET

THE EV DISRUPTOR • A CASHED-UP START-UP DEIGNS TO TAKE ON TAYCAN AND TESLA WITH ‘THE WORLD’S MOST EFFICIENT EV’. MEET THE LUCID AIR – AND THE TECH GIVING IT AN 800KM RANGE AND 783kW OF ELECTRIC GRUNT

The balls to take on Tesla

Drives • THE NEW METAL THAT MATTERS, TRIALLED AND TESTED

MOST POWERFUL AMG YET HAS A DARK HEART

The Rival

SWEDES CUT THE CABLE FOR DEBUT EV

A MAZDA SENT FROM ISUZU, WITH SHOVE

SHOULD MAKE NO SENSE, YET SOMEHOW…

PREMIUM COMPACT HYBRID IS WILLING AND CABLE

The rival • VOLVO XC40 RECHARGE PHEV

720S NOT ENOUGH? ARE YOU MAD?

FIRST MAZDA EV CHANNELS A LITTLE RX-8

Little Ripper • HYUNDAI’S NEW i20 N IS A 150kW FRONT-DRIVE SENSATION AIMED SQUARELY AT THE FORD FIESTA ST. WE SCORE AN AUSSIE TRACK TASTE OF A PROTOTYPE, AND FIND THE HEAT IS ON

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Seb On cars, racing & 2020 • MODERN CHALLENGES CALL FOR MODERN ATHLETES, AS MARK HUGHES DISCOVERS IN THIS WIDE-RANGING CONVERSATION WITH FOUR-TIME F1 CHAMPION – AND NOTORIOUSLY PRIVATE – SEBASTIAN VETTEL

ABOVE PAR • THE GOLF GTI IS TO VW WHAT THE 911 IS TO PORSCHE. BUT IN Mk8 GUISE, HAS IT EVOLVED ENOUGH TO FEND OFF THE HOTTEST HATCH AROUND?

Manual or DSG? • LOVE A MANUAL, BUT AUTO IS THE PICK

Step inside the Mk8 interior • VW’S CLASSIC GOES HIGH-TECH

VW could build 300kW Golf R...