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Two Mini JCW hot hatches designed in collaboration with Deus Ex Machina

Mini partners with Aussie lifestyle brand Deus Ex Machina for two wild hot hatch concepts

With their visible seams, chunky switches and traditional levers these raw, handcrafted Mini’s celebrate the ‘beauty of imperfection’, and they even have an Aussie connection.…

Tom Hartley Jnr with the Mansour Ojjeh McLaren Collection

Secretive buyer snaps up major McLaren collection

An astounding collection of McLaren road cars spanning the brand’s history has been snapped up by a single buyer in a secretive deal. The lineup…

Ralph Lauren’s yellow Ferrari F50

Monterey Car Week auction figures soar while the Aussie market remains quiet

While Australian auction sites during the early part of August were hard pressed to sell a car for more than $100,000, the might of Monterey…

1924 Hispano Suiza H6C Nieuport-Astra Torpedo at Pebble Beach Concours

Monterey Car Week: 1924 Hispano-Suiza named ‘Best of Show’ at 2025 Pebble Beach Concours, while supercars stun at The Quail

Monterey Car Week is always one of the biggest and boldest events on the automotive calendar, and 2025’s edition stunned as ever under the southern…

Volkswagen Polo Mk1

Volkswagen Polo earns ‘Best Car of the Half Century’ title, but there’s an odd catch

The Volkswagen Polo has been voted Best Car of the Half Century as part of the Best Cars of the Year – The New Car…

Garagisti & Co. GP1

British startup Garagisti & Co. reveals V12-powered, retro-inspired GP1 analogue hypercar

While much of today’s supercar and hypercar market looks to be embracing hybrid technology as a way of churning out ever-faster cars with violently quick…

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Entertainment

Classic TV: Cog by Honda

The Honda Cog Tv Commercial created controversy as many thought computer graphics were used Cog is a British TV ad launched by Honda in 2003 to…

Extraordinary Engines: Why the Gen III V8 Engine was a performance hero

How the US-sourced Gen III V8 put a cracker under the bonnet of Holden’s mid-1999 VT2 Commodore.    IN 2024, IT WILL BE 25 years…

Classic TV: BMW The Hire Series 1

Oftentimes, branded content is easy to spot from a mile away. You can always tell when an out-of-place product has been forced into a limelight…

Extraordinary Engines: Jaguar’s XK Six Cylinder

Long time Jaguar fancier and Retro Rides market analyst Cliff Chambers looks at the exceptional six-cylinder engine that kept Jaguar at the pinnacle of British…

Classic TV: Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos, and Holden Cars

A lyric synonymous with Australian culture, Holden came up with one of the catchiest advertising jingles ever written back in the 1970s. "We love football,…

Unicorn: 1970 Porsche Tapiro

In the world of automotive design, few collaborations have captivated car enthusiasts quite like the 1970 Porsche Tapiro. Born from the innovative minds at ItalDesign,…

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Originals

Retro Rides Presents Ford Falcon EA-ED: How Battling the VN Commodore Kickstarted the Greatest Era of Aussie Performance Cars

Ford Australia’s belated response to Holden’s fuel-injected V8-powered VN Commodore kickstarted the greatest-ever era of Aussie performance cars.  Looking back now, it seems absurd that…

Retro Rides Presents Ford Falcon EA-ED: The Evolution of the Fifth-Gen Falcon

At a time when Holden had decided to downsize, Ford's decision to retain a big-bodied Aussie family car with the EA Falcon proved to be…

Retro Rides Presents: 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2

Michael Stahl drove his first 911 in 1987, five years into his motoring journalism career, and it was almost identical to the one he now…

A Brief History of the Morris Minor

The Morris Minor has long been the epitome of unpretentious and charming British motoring (Image: Car & Classic) If ever a car epitomised British motoring…

The Retro Rides Podcast Episode 3: An Interview with Tony Palmer from Black Rock Motor Resort

On this week's episode of the Retro Rides Podcast, hosts Rich Fowler and Cam Jurd get under the hood on Auction News, the best of…

Retro Rides Presents Ford Falcon: Why I Bought a John Goss Special

It’s a toss-up between the original XA coupe and its XB successor as to which is the best-looking Aussie Ford of the ’70s for Retro…

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