by Peter Robinson – – – Wheels magazine’s Steve Cropley was trusted with ferrying a new Ford Falcon XC Cobra from the company’s Broadmeadows headquarters to Bathurst for the 1978 […]
Robbo's Archives
Ford Australia’s Archive
by Peter Robinson – – – The battle over Ford Australia’s precious archive, raging since 2015, finally seems to have settled. There’s still one major step before all parties are […]
Corvette Concept
by Peter Robinson – – – The first in a raft of Corvette concept cars due to be unveiled this year has been revealed at the official opening of GM’s […]
A chat with Peter Davis
by Peter Robinson Peter Davis, the American designer who helped create one of the most controversially styled cars of the past 50 years, was guest speaker at the AMHF earlier […]
How GM and Ford produced the same size engines
by Peter Robinson This is a coincidence that stretches beyond the imagination. In late 1950 and early 1952, General Motors and Ford – sworn rivals as the world’s two biggest […]
GM: Thinking for Design
by Peter Robinson Thinking time: that vital period when a CEO or senior manager is free to reflect, to contemplate the future, and hopefully come up with strategies that drive […]
Cropley Curve
by Peter Robinson Silverstone has Hamilton Straight, Scotland the Jim Clark circuit, Sydney Motor Sport Park Brabham Straight and Bahrain the Schumacher S, all named to honour the memory of […]
In pursuit of 200mph
by Peter Robinson Embarrassingly, I don’t remember the first time I topped 100mph on the road. Almost certainly most of you – at least those of a certain age – […]
The Mille Miglia’s Contessa
by Peter Robinson These were no ordinary family photograph albums. In the frescoed library of Contessa Camilla Maggi’s Calino home, among a stack of scrap books, you’d find a leather-bound, […]
