HSV’s rare all-wheel-drive Coupe 4 was bold, complex and ahead of its time – and while it flopped commercially, it remains an example of a braver time in Australian motoring history.

Skippers of nearly 130 yachts set sail on a "bumpy" Sydney to Hobart ocean race on Friday, many scattering rose petals for the Bondi Beach shooting victims as they ventured into rolling seas.

In July 1937, the Great Depression had eased to the point where the U.S. unemployment rate had dropped below 11%, but the ...