Michael Stahl

Writer

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.​

Latest articles

Perhaps the most beautiful motorcycle ever built and certainly one of the most collectable, Ducati’s legendary “green frame” 750 Super…

More than 75 years after the demise of Preston Tucker’s ambitious rear-engine Tucker Torpedo, the jury is still out on…

The Honda Z50 Monkey is the lumpy little minibike that put at least three generations of bourgeois brats on wheels…

Vilified by consumer advocate Ralph Nader for its unstable handling in his landmark 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed, the…

With its enlarged twin-spark DOHC four-cylinder punching out a screaming 165kW at 7200rpm, Alfa Romeo’s race-focused 1750 GTAm dominated European…

Carroll Shelby once said of his most famous creation, the AC Cobra: “You can’t make a silk purse out of…

More than any car before it, the Saab 99 Turbo put forced induction on the map. The sweet-handling Swede could…

In 1982, with a conservative Mercedes-Benz still focused largely on big, luxurious sedans and wagons, the arrival of the smaller,…

With their unusual three-wheel design and V-twin motorcycle powerplants delivering potent power-to-weight ratios, Morgans were renowned as motor racing weapons…

Big, boorish and slithery-swift in a straight line, the V10-engined Dodge Viper was born out of Chrysler president Bob Lutz…