Michael Stahl
Michael Stahl is one of Australia's most celebrated motoring Journalists. He has won numerous writing awards, including Motoring Journalist of the Year in 1998 and the magazine industry association Publishers Australia Journalist of the Year in 2011. In addition he was contributing Editor of Wheels magazine and Motoring Editor for the Australian Financial review. Michaels favourite current ride is his classic 911 where he can been see at numerous cars and coffee events on a regular basis.
Latest articles
Rear View: 1970 Range Rover
The revolutionary Range Rover emerged from the questionable Road Rover concept to rewrite the rule book for 4x4 wagons.
Rear View: Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R 1969
Decades before the R32 famously won the 1991 Bathurst 1000, it’s grandaddy the 1969 Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R stalked the expressways of Japan. Japan has produced some individual and impressive performance cars over the past six decades, machines as varied as the Mazda RX-7, Honda NS-X, Subaru and Mitsubishi turbo AWD rally rockets and more recently, the Nissan R35 GT-R.
Anantara Hotels & Resorts Presents a New World-Class Historic Car Concours
Anantara Concorso Roma is a three-day homage to automotive craftsmanship that promises to bring together some of the rarest and most significant Italian historic cars ever, against the backdrop of historical Rome.
Rear View: VW Golf GTI Mk1
How VW replaced the revolutionary Bettle with the innovative Golf, adding the now-iconic GTI badge to help pioneer the hot hatch concept. Volkswagen began the decade of the 1970s with a best-selling small car that was rear-engined, air-cooled and little changed over the previous 30 years. Volkswagen also closed the 1970s with a best-selling car: a front-engined, front-wheel drive hatchback that w…
Rear View - Lamborghini Countach
How the Lamborghini Countach became the definitive supercar of the 1970s – and the decade after Half a century ago, cars didn’t look like this. Suddenly, this one did. First previewed three years earlier as the LP 500 concept, the effect of the production Lamborghini Countach LP 400 driving onto the world stage in 1974 was like the Imperial Star Destroyer in the opening scene of Star Wars – a fil…