Wheelers Blog & News

Who's up for a car-becue?   There are some things in life that gearheads are supposed to do. Buying and driving awesome cars is an obvious given. Modifying them is also a preferred pastime. But it’s almost summer and we'll soon be able to leave all that crap wintery weather behind. Time to go outside and grill some meat. Lots of it. And what better way to cook all that meat than on an old car turned into a grill? Converting a car (or even an engine), which could’ve ended up in the junk...

James May revealed in his Sunday Times column that he recently bought a Ferrari 458 Speciale , just before Top Gear as we know it went bust. "I've ordered the last one - all I need is a job to pay for it" is James May's recent column for The Sunday Times . He talks about buying a Ferrari 458 Speciale for £208,090 at the moment when the Top Gear trio was on the verge of signing a new three-year deal with the BBC. However, as most of you know the deal was never completed so now May is in a...

This can't belong to a student, can it?   We’ve been to some awesome car shows over the years, but the Skyline High School in Sammamish, WA, might have just taken the prize for hosting the greatest high school car show ever. The star of the event was this stunning Ferrari LaFerrari finished in Blue Electrico with a pale tan interior and gunmetal gray alloys. That’s some car to come to a school show! We're not sure how the owner is connected to the school, but we're guessing they're not a...

Williams has revealed it recorded a more than $50 million loss in 2014.   The Grove team, listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange, enjoyed a surge in performance last year following a long slump, but took a financial hit due to "lower revenue and higher costs".   In a statement, Williams explained that it had embarked on a "turnaround strategy" in 2013 "following a number of years of deteriorating performance".   "Consequently, and as anticipated, 2014 was a year of transition," the...

Never forget the wheel, the invention that enabled humankind to move forward. By removing the wheels from some everyday cars it becomes blindingly clear they are essential to the look of a car. French photographer Renaud Marion previously considered the idea of a world of wheelless cars, and now artist Sylvian Viau has revisited the notion with a set of levitating vehicles, selecting only his own and friends’ cars as subjects for his project. Although some cars look almost normal without...

Jacques Villeneuve has joined Bernie Ecclestone in admitting his opposition to the Manor team.   In Bahrain last week, when asked if he is happy the former Marussia team resurrected itself over the winter, F1 supremo Ecclestone admitted: "Not particularly."   Now Villeneuve, the world champion of 1997, has admitted he also doubts Manor belongs at the pinnacle of motor sport.   "No, of course not," he told the Spanish sports daily AS, "when their car is five seconds off the...

A Chinese customer has bought a brand new luxury BMW making the payment with small change. Ms Li from the city of Zhengzhou went to the local dealership of the Bavarian brand to partly pay for her 730Li and used 100,000 small denomination bank notes. The rest of the cost, around 1M Yuan, she paid with her bankcard.   It took around six hours for the 20 employees in the dealership to count the money. Ms Li explained she had saved such a large sum of one-Yuan notes because she has a food...

McLaren has denied reports Jenson Button lost his temper with the team's situation after the Bahrain grand prix.   The 2009 world champion had a horror weekend of unreliability in the island Kingdom, and then could not even take his Honda-powered car to the grid on Sunday.   "The chances of it (the energy recovery system) failing were quite high so we decided it was better not to run it," McLaren supremo Ron Dennis said.   Britain's Mirror newspaper claims Button, 35, then "failed to...

Christian Horner on Thursday pinned Red Bull's hopes on the fate of its current engine supplier.   For much of the season so far, the energy drink owned team's chiefs have been scathing of Renault's performance.   But Red Bull has ruled out building its own engine, apparently failed to woo a Volkswagen brand to the grid, and acknowledged that key rivals Mercedes and Ferrari are not viable alternative suppliers.   So in the past days, Red Bull's vitriol has eased.   "In reality our...

Clearly it's someone with amazing taste. As a resident of Monaco, it’s essential that your daily driver is something a little bit special. Otherwise, you’ll never get noticed or allowed in to the principality’s best nightspots. When not travelling the world on business, the new owner of this stunning blue McLaren P1 calls Monaco home, which is where his new ride was just delivered. If you still haven’t clocked who the car’s new owner is then here’s some clues: He’s British, he worked for...