MOTOR Magazine Australia

If you love fast cars and everything surrounding them, then MOTOR is the magazine for you. From the hottest new cars to the wildest tuner vehicles, through the people who build, buy, race and repair them, MOTOR shines a spotlight on the late model car enthusiast lifestyle. Through 60 years of heritage MOTOR has built up a reputation as the car enthusiast’s bible.

ED’S NOTE • AT PCOTY, WE BRING 10 OF THE VERY BEST DRIVER’S CARS OF THE PAST YEAR AND 90 PER CENT OF ‘EM GO HOME EMPTY-HANDED

01 McLAREN’S THIRD DAWN • A decade of knowledge is distilled beneath the McLaren Artura’s sheet metal… welcome to Woking’s V6 hybrid era

02 THIS ONE GOES TO 11 • The 911 GT3 is pure, distilled Porsche. The revolutionary 992 iteration represents an eloquent expression of the state of Zuffenhausen’s art

03 MEET THE WORLD’S FASTEST DENTIST • How dentist Dr. Larry Caplin went from sweeping workshop floors at age 12, to claiming the production car speed record

04 FASTER AND LAUDA • Gordon Murray’s analogue T.50 is now ready to race

the Tribe

On The Wires • Use #motormag so we can find your dodgy pics

The Tiebreaker • You send in the two cars you’re stuck on, we’ll give you a steer on the one to pick

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O1 RUF CTR ANNIVERSARY • Just don’t call it a restomod

02 BMW M2 CS • Flagship M2 one of BMW’s finest driving machines

03 MERCEDES-AMG E63 S • Supercar shove in a four-door luxo limo? That’s the AMG way

TRAY RAPIDE • DIESEL’S BEEN DITCHED FOR V8s IN THE SUPERUTES CATEGORY – BUT IS A DUAL CAB WITH A 298KW LS POWERTRAIN ACTUALLY A GOOD IDEA? WE DRIVE ONE TO SEE IF IT’S AS CRAZY AS IT SOUNDS…

THE GREAT WIDE OPEN • AS SOON AS RESTRICTIONS LIFTED, PCOTY 2021 WAS NOT ONLY ON, BUT ONE FOR THE AGES

INTO THE WILD • THE VICTORIAN HIGH COUNTRY PROVIDES THE 2021 PCOTY FIELD WITH THE PERFECT REAL-WORLD TEST

CIRCUIT BREAKER • RECORDS ARE DEMOLISHED IN THE FASTEST AND MOST POWERFUL PCOTY FIELD EVER

From the race-driver’s mouth • What Karl Reindler thinks of the PCOTY field

FORD MUSTANG SM17 • Power-packed pony is a bittersweet symphony

AUDI RS6 AVANT • Uber wagon shines in the real world, not on track

TOYOTA GR YARIS • We so badly wanted to believe…

BMW M550i xDRIVE • M5 Competition’s understudy makes the grade

AUDI R8 V10 PERFORMANCE • Tried and true recipe delivers 10-cylinder main course

PORSCHE CAYMAN GTS 4.0 • Dynamic brilliance hampered by long-legged ’box

FORD FIESTA ST • Baby hot hatch grows into a giant killer

MERCEDES-AMG A45 S • Affalterbach redefines the hot hatch genre

PORSCHE 911 TURBO S • Technically brilliant, but is there a spark missing?

The Data • More digits than an international mobile number

ROCK STAR • AFTER YEARS OF TRYING, MERCEDES-AMG WINS ITS FIRST PCOTY WITH THE INCREDIBLE AMG GT R PRO

MERCEDES-AMG GT R PRO • Hard to fault, even harder to forget – a worthy winner

FASTEST CIRCUS IN TOWN • KIRBY GETS HIS FIRST PCOTY INVITE AND SPENDS THE WEEK WRANGLING WALKIE TALKIES. CRUEL. WE ALSO MADE HIM KEEP NOTES

BMW E92 M3 • UNLIKE ANY M3 BEFORE, AND LIKE NONE EVER AFTER

10 THINGS WE WANT

SHINE ON • Dirt-road driving triggers E nright’s very dormant OCD

NEVER LIFT • Kirby licks the stamp and sends it

Hot Source • THE FAST GUIDE TO QUICK CARS

CHART ATTACK • NEW PERFORMANCE CAR SALES UPDATE

PIPELINE • HOT STUFF COMING SOON

Scott Newman • ‘STOP AND HAVE A THINK: WOULD THIS CAR BE EQUALLY AS GOOD IF THE DRIVETRAIN...