Behind the Wheel

Steve Richards has teamed up with BMW to tackle the keenly-anticipated 2016 GT3 season.

BMW today took the covers off Steve's 2016 car, a BMW M6 powered by a twin-turbo V8 engine.

We caught up with Steve for a chat to look at the BMW campaign and motorsport in general in 2016...

Peugeot has launched the new 308 GTi range into Australia with two variants available - 308 GTi 250 and the 308 GTi 270.

Unashamedly taking on the Volkswagen Golf GTI and the Renault Megane RS 270,

Behind the Wheel is on assignment at the Australian launch of the new Peugeot 308 GTi models and caught up with Peugeot Australia's, Tyson Bowen for a chat...

Iveco Trucks get set to reach more customers in 2016.

Just give us a go, that’s the message from Iveco Australia Marketing Manager Darren Swenson.

Speaking at the launch of Iveco’s 2016 Australian campaign, Mr Swenson, who started with Iveco last year, says no other truck brands caters as well to the needs of drivers than Iveco, he says truck buyers just need to take a test drive to find out why.

With a number of new models and configurations coming to the Australian market in 2016, Behind the Wheel’s Joel Helmes caught up with Darren for a chat to look at how Iveco can gain more Australian truck market share in 2016 and beyond…

Bec and Rach talk about their experiences buying cars.

It may not be as much of a ‘Man’s World’ as once it was, yet it seems that car dealerships remain a male-dominated environment.

In this edition of Coffee and Cars, Bec and Rach talk about their previous experiences buying cars, how they have been treated and what they have hated about the experience.

Just as importantly the girls also come up with some strategies to help make buying a new car easier, including when is the best time to head into a car dealership and the importance of being well-researched before you head out…

We chat to Screen Machines host Robert Moseley.

Robert ‘Videobob’ Moseley is renowned for being the man to talk to if you want an as close to original as possible recreation of an iconic vehicle from television and films.

Want a KITT from Knight Rider or a Batmobile? Robert Moseley is the man to talk to.

In this chat with Behind the Wheel’s Simon Lai, Robert Moseley talks about his background and how he got into creating movie and TV replica cars, how he goes about building them and what we can expect from the upcoming season of Screen Machines.

The coming season of Screen Machines premieres Thursday the 4th of February at 8.30pm on Discovery Turbo.

Bec gives Rach a driving lesson in a manual car.

“It’s not 1926 anymore, the car needs to be changing its own gears!” We think Rach might not be going out and buying a manual car anytime soon!

After years of driving auto’s and doing all she could to avoid learning how to drive a manual, Rach finally agreed to have a go in a manual under the expert tutelage of Bec.

With the Mitsubishi ASX with a five-speed manual in the Behind the Wheel garage, the girls figured there was no time like the present to show her the manual “ropes”.

Have a listen to hear how Rach went…

Australians paying thousands of dollars in toll fees and charges.

If the rising cost of accessing tollways wasn’t already putting enough squeeze on Australian motorists, new reports say we are also paying thousands of dollars in extra fees and charges for late payments.

The team over at The Big Smoke report that one motorist was even slapped with a $50,000 fine for late toll payments and extra fees, some motorists have even been threatened with prison sentences.

Toll fines are getting out of control and its state governments that are reaping the benefits.

We caught up with The Big Smoke founder, Alex Tselios, to find out more about the issue and how we are being stung by extra fees and charges every year by the tollway operators and state governments.

Bec and Rach talk about their dream machine - the Jaguar F-TYPE R.

We sent the girls out to road test the 2015 Jaguar F-TYPE R and it appears the men of Sydney really had trouble containing themselves.

We are still undecided whether it was the topless convertible Jaguar with the breathtaking V8 grumble, or Bec and Rach that attracted all the date offers and marriage proposals!

Either way they had a memorable in a standout vehicle.

To hear Bec and Rach go weak at the knees about the Jaguar F-TYPE R just hit play or download...

We chat to EROAD about their range of in-vehicle technologies.

In the old days, when a truck or company owned vehicle left headquarters or a depot there was no real way of accurately tracking where and what that vehicle was doing.

So in most cases it really was a situation of out of sight out of mind.

But then technology came along that allowed for real time tracking of vehicles and from there the sky really is the limit in regards to creating efficiencies and safety improvement possibilities.

EROAD is one of the leaders in In-Vehicle Hardware and offers a full range of vehicle tracking systems and software that allow vehicle owners to monitor a whole host of vehicle data and records.

The software even allows drivers to compete against each other to achieve the best fuel economy and smoothest driving.

Behind the Wheel’s Joel Helmes chatted with engineering manager at EROAD, Jarred Clayton…

Bec and Rach talk MINI’s most-powerful car yet.

It’s a little pocket-rocket and carries a price tag to match, but is the MINI John Cooper Works worth the money?

Bec and Rach have had the keys and talk interior space, the MINI cabin layout, parking and sports mode!

Check out what the girls think of MINI’s most powerful model yet…