First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Skoda Superb

The Skoda Superb has always been car that – to use an over-used cliche – has earned its name. And when you think about it, it really does take some balls to call your car “superb” no matter how old a nameplate it actually is. I mean, you are really not making life easy for […]

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Thursday Five

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!

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Mazda MX-5

Colin Chapman is famous for a number of things. There’s the Lotus marque, and the spinoff Formula One team that won seven drivers’ championships and six constructors’ championships. On the downside, though he may have been an engineering genius, he was not the best businessman. Remember the tie-up with John Z. DeLorean that cost the […]

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The Good Oil: The Perfect Car

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! This is the PERFECT car … apparently A professor of psychology at the Scotland’s Stirling University, Peter Hancock, thinks this is the perfect car. He […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Maserati Quattroporte 330hp

When you think of a brand such as Maserati, your mind doesn’t immediately head towards fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Instead you think of power, noise and looks. But Maserati wants to stay relevant in a world increasingly concerned about fuel economy, so has introduced a new version of the Quattroporte into the local market, […]

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Random Stuff!

Thursday Five

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!

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Random Stuff!

Happy Back to the Future day!

Today is the 21st of October 2015 – or in other words, the day that Marty McFly comes to the future! Or, the now, if you prefer… While the classic 1989 sequel got a surprising amount right about what 2015 would be like, we still don’t have hover cars, hover boards or anything that hovers, […]

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