The Araluen Road was once the busiest road in New South Wales, now you can have it to yourself, says Mel Nichols.

A former coal mine in New South Wales, Australia will soon be transformed into a luxury race resort.

Mel Nichols drives deep into a hidden valley on an off-road trail through New South Wales.

The ultimate outback adventure crosses no less than Four deserts in 300 miles.

American YouTubers Tia and Cheveyo of One Pack Wanderers have just travelled over 17,000 miles around Australia in a humble hatchback.

A Porsche Taycan 4S Cross Turismo has just just proved that long-distance EV travel is easy – even across the most remote parts of Australia.

It’s named after a stairway to heaven but Tasmania’s treacherous Jacob’s Ladder can be a hellish drive.

The clue is in the name. This barely two-mile ascent east of Perth is absolutely teeming with the tightest turns.

Ready your Myers Manx or your 4x4, for here are five of the most fabulous beaches in the world that you can legally drive on.

A team of Australian scientists is planning to drive a Tesla 9,380 miles around Australia, charging only with solar power.

Thanks to an enterprising off-grid, bio-fuelled charging station Australia’s Nullarbor Plain has just opened up to EV explorers.

As the best athletes in the world go for gold in Tokyo it got us thinking about the Olympics of driving – so we dived into our archives to bring you winning drives for the Detour Olympics.

A g’day – or a more likely a g’week or more – is guaranteed if you take a drive Down Under on one of these remarkable routes.

For most road trippers circumnavigating Australia would be a journey of months, maybe even years. John Mahoney did it less than a week. Non stop.

Shimmering heat haze, mesmerising mirages and an endless vanishing point are just some of the distractions of desert driving. Could you handle these hot, lonely drives?

Speed freaks and velocity-raptors of the globe, welcome to the world’s fastest roads.

Cutting a path parallel to the Indian-Pacific railway, Gavin Conway explores the vast emptiness of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain as he drives from Perth to Sydney.

Today’s car commercials are computer-generated fantasies, blandly mindful of not upsetting the ad authorities but only a few years ago they were memorable mini movies that would sell, sell, sell.

It’s not just the scale of natural scenery that can take you by surprise on a road trip. Sometimes it’s the strangest man-made objects that catch you off-guard.

Endless views to the horizon, the smell of salt spray in the air and asphalt that twists and turns with the coastline. There’s nothing quite like an ocean drive. Here are ten of Detour’s favourite seaside sojourns.