Articles by Mike Ryan

From the first year of production, this 1964 Plymouth Barracuda was also one of the first to come to Australia. The Plymouth Barracuda remains one of the great “What Ifs” of the automotive world. As has been well documented, it was created along similar lines to Ford’s Mustang and actually came to market earlier, but was absolutely swamped by that model in the marketplace.

One-off Miura SVR restored and updated by Lamborghini’s heritage division. One of the rarest and most valuable classic Lamborghinis recently emerged from a 19-month-long restoration by the company’s Polo Storico heritage division.

As this issue was about to go to press, Craig Lowndes announced that he would be retiring from the Supercars series at the end of this year’s season after more than 20 years in the sport.

Uniquely-appointed, high-performance Mustang coupe priced from $73,688

To mark its tenth anniversary next year, the annual Sh*tbox Rally - where teams tour remote areas of Australia in cars costing less than $1,000 - will host its biggest event yet, with equally big plans for the fundraising target.

This year’s Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado, USA, saw Volkswagen not just break, but absolutely smash the outright record set by Sebastien Loeb is a custom Peugeot five years ago, as well as the existing record for electric vehicles set in 2016.

After what’s been described as a record-breaking event in Melbourne this year that saw more than 700 cars on show and almost 30,000 visitors, Meguiar’s MotorEx will return to Melbourne in 2019.

In 1984 Ford South Africa created its very own performance Sierra exclusively for its own market. Only 250 of these Mustang V8-powered rarities were made, and this is one of possibly just two to have made it to Australia.

Subaru sprinkles some STi goodness on the BRZ… our tS isn’t quite the same as the Japan-only BRZ STi Sport but it’s close in all the right areas.

Mini create a one-off car to celebrate “that” royal wedding.