Every week Damien does The Good Oil column for the NZ Herald’s DRIVEN magazine – here are a few highlights from the latest one, with a link to the entire thing! Birthday card (well, paper…) The traditional 5th birthday party involves junk food, much running around and cool toys. Nissan decided to do something a […]
Author: Oversteer
When Peugeot launched the latest 208 in New Zealand, the car came across as a pleasant enough little vehicle, with a few glaring faults. Chief among them was that it was not only saddled with an automatic transmission with only four gears, but that it was a French automatic transmission with only four gears. Gear […]
Every week Damien writes a list of five things. Every Thursday www.driven.co.nz runs it online as the Thursday Five, here is this week’s list of random nonsense!
This week’s BLAST takes us to Pukekohe in 2006 – remembering a very special Kiwi, Jason Richards, here in full flight hammering the kerbs. Many thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic.
BMW’s new 7 Series is, according to them, the best it’s ever been. Is it good enough to take down the Mercedes-Benz S Class? XCAR takes a look.
Yes, we realise it has been quite a while, but the 11th and latest episode of the NZ Motoring Podcast is available now! In it Damien and David discuss the Top Ten cars eligible for the NZ Motoring Writers’ Guild/AA Car of the Year award and 12-cylinder cars – all from inside a Bentley Continental GT […]
Redesigned to look far more like a member of the X family, the smallest BMW SUV is now sitting on a new platform. It is the same platform that sits under the 2 Series Active Tourer and the new Mini three- and five-door models. In other words, the X1 is now also front-wheel drive. Well, […]
Every week Damien writes a list of five things. Every Thursday www.driven.co.nz runs it online as the Thursday Five, here is this week’s list of random nonsense!
XCAR took Example out to Silverstone to teach him some drifting tricks and to challenge him to see if he could beat them on track.
The revamped 3 Series range starts with the $72,000 320i sedan and the $75,000 Touring (wagon), both of which get the same 135kW/270Nm 2-litre petrol turbo engine and come standard with 18-inch alloy wheels, LED headlights, front fog lights and taillights, front and rear parking sensors with Park Assist, satellite navigation, a backing camera, […]
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