Articles by Mike Ryan

Porsche purists might have scoffed at the idea of an ‘automatic’ 911, but there’s no arguing it helped sell cars. We go for a spin in a near-original 1976 911 Sportomatic.

A 1970 Mustang is already pretty cool, but a tribute to a Trans-Am race winner with a bunch of modern touches? Well, that’s gotta be super cool!

The new Alfa Romeo Giulia QV lives up to its promise on the race track, but is just being fast and fun enough?

The 1960s was a golden era of muscle cars in the US, with Shelby Mustangs some of the most sought after from the era. We celebrate the 1967 GT350 and GT500.

MEET THE MAZDA MX-5 RF, or Retractable Fastback… this is the MX-5 variant, says Mazda, that will open-up (apologies) the model to a new audience. An audience, it believes, that will make up around 60% of MX-5 buyers going forward.

Marking 50 years since the first Shelby-badged “Super Snake” Mustang was produced, Shelby American has announced a special ‘50th Anniversary Shelby Super Snake’, with the birthday special officially unveiled at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction in January.

The top-spec and top-price version of Nissan’s GT-R – the GT-R NISMO - has arrived; the first NISMO-developed vehicle to be officially released in Australia. The flagship model in the locally-available GT-R lineup (above the GT-R Premium Edition and GT-R Track Edition), the motorsport-developed GT-R NISMO is priced from $299,000, excluding on-road costs.

Defining the RF - and separating it from the normal MX-5 soft-top convertible – is its fastback styling, with flying buttress rear pillars that form part of the four-piece electrically-folding hard roof.

In February, Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) announced their range for 2017, which will be the final products to be based on the Australian-made ‘Zeta’ platform Commodore sedan and utility.

The #88 Maranello Motorsport 488 GT3, driven by Craig Lowndes, Jamie Whincup and Finnish sportscar ace Toni Vilander, was the sole Ferrari entered this year, but stamped its presence early with pole position in the hands of Vilander.

On the third anniversary of the sinkhole that opened up in the National Corvette Museum (NCM) and swallowed eight Corvettes, the NCM announced that restoration has begun on a 1962 Corvette convertible that was one of the victims of the event.

This past January, Bonhams’ annual Scottsdale auction had something of an Aussie flavour when an English car with a long history in this country was the top seller. The car in question was a 1963 Jaguar E-Type “Lightweight”, one of twelve dedicated competition versions of the E-Type created by Jaguar for circuit competition.