Articles by Mike Ryan

With the 25th Corvette Nationals to take place in Toowoomba this Easter weekend, Queensland's 'Garden City' is set to become 'Corvette City'! The Nationals will be hosted by the Corvettes Down Under Car Club (CDUCC), who have confirmed that over 100 Corvettes are already confirmed for this weekend's event, with more expected.

The 2013 Australian International Motor Show has been cancelled, with organisers citing a lack of exhibitor interest as the reason for cancelling the Melbourne event scheduled for June.

A treasure trove of vintage sports cars, project vehicles and parts have been consigned for Shannons' Melbourne Autumn Auction on April 29th, 2013. The haul comes from the collection of Victorian Sporting Car Club (VSCC) identity, Ted Hider-Smith, a stalwart of the VSCC that's widely regarded as the Australian authority on early chain-driven vehicles.

Queensland drift racer Josh Boettcher will compete against the world's best drivers as international-level drifting motorsport comes to Australia next month as part of the 2013 Achilles Formula Drift Asian Series.

Unless you're a keen student of American automobile history, or have read the fictionalised mystery novels by D.E. Johnson, the name 'Detroit Electric' probably doesn't mean much. But a new company is set to revive the long-dead name, as well as revitalising the Detroit automobile manufacturing industry with an all-American new, all-electric sports car.

Hyundai Motor Company today unveiled exterior renderings of 'HND-9,' a luxury high-performance sports coupe concept, that Hyundai say is the latest evolution of the company's "fluidic sculpture design philosophy."

\nChrysler's SRT (Street and Racing technology) team have created what they describe as the ultimate combination of street legal and track performance in the form of the 2014 'SRT Viper TA'.

Renault and four-time Formula 1 world champion, Alain Prost, are delighted to announce the enlargement of their relationship in 2013.

In what's claimed to be a world's first this coming May, Bonhams will auction a scale model dragster inspired by the famous Greer-Black-Prudhomme front-engined dragster driven by Don "The Snake" Prudhomme in the early 1960s.

At this year's Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction, an example of one of the most desirable Maseratis of all time - the 300S Sports Spider - will be put up for auction.

Toowoomba is the home for the 25th Corvette Nationals, so Queensland's 'Garden City' is set to become 'Corvette City' this Easter! The Nationals will be hosted by the Corvettes Down Under Car Club (CDUCC), who have confirmed that over 100 Corvettes are already confirmed for the event, with more expected.

Bonhams have announced that their upcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed auction will feature one of the most significant race cars of all time in the form of a 1954 2 _-litre Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix car.