Aussies run their big V8 engines hard at Calder Park. While street-style drag racing has gotten huge in the United States, it’s become a bit slower to catch on elsewhere. Maybe most countries’ arcane motoring laws have something to do with that, since they tend to make it hard to build crazy street cars that […] More »

Touring Car Masters crash crumples a dozen vintage race cars. Like their American counterparts, Australians love muscle cars. Starting in the 1960s, the Land Down Under imported in enough and also built enough of their own to have a proper V8-based car culture. And like muscle car fans stateside with vintage Trans-Am racing, the Aussies love […] More »

It’s a bittersweet day indeed for Holden, General Motor’s Australian division. The Holden brand is ending production in their native Australia this year. That means it is the end of the road for the beloved Holden Commodore, the rear-wheel drive super sedan that no one ever bought. The Commodore, and indeed it’s Zeta platform, where the […] More »

Australia’s import laws dictate that cars less than 30 years old can only be right hand drive. That said, it doesn’t stop enterprising owners from importing cars they love into the country and having them converted to RHD Aussies love their V8’s, but the Corvette is a rare sight in the land down under. Import […] More »

The American badass sedan, the Chevy SS, and the Australian Holden Commodore seem to have their days numbered.

If there’s one country that knows how to do horsepower right just like the good ole U.S. of A, it’s Australia. That group of convicts, snake wranglers, and surfers just know how to make a car go fast, loudly, and smoke tires like it will get more shrimp on the Barbie faster.

V8 Superboats are now on my list of things I must drive in my lifetime.