Ah, Italian cars. If you love cars, then you have to love Italian cars, even if you are far too sensible to admit it. Italy has always been the eccentric uncle of the worldwide car family. The sort that you don’t actually invite to the family wedding, but he turns up anyway, makes the day […]
Author: Damien O'Carroll
R.I.P Rik Mayall, the man almost solely responsible for forming my concept of humour when I was a young, impressionable lad. Pretty much everything he did – from the glorious anarchy of ‘The Young Ones’ to the surreal blackness of “The Comic Strip Presents…” and the sleazy satire of “The New Statesman” – was hilarious […]
Like most living things, cars also grow up. Some “evolve”, some “mature” and some just get old and useless. The Subaru WRX has grown up a lot with its latest incarnation and the best word to use would probably be “mature”. But don’t take that to mean it has come over all serious and sober […]
There is an absolutely wonderful daily email called “Now I Know” that I subscribe to that is a fantastic source of things that are rather interesting. It is written by a bloke called Dan Lewis and is a constant and always impressive surprise when it arrives (usually around midnight NZ time!) in my inbox. On of his […]
Welcome to OVERSTEER’s first “Photo Gallery Road Test”! This is where we present you with a selection of photographs of the vehicle in question (in this case the Land Rover Discovery Black) each with a paragraph or two about it. Across the gallery these will add up to the complete road test, just in a different […]
Small and Medium SUVs are where it is at, in an automotive sense, with the demand for tall hatchbacks the little guys going through the roof. This has been a problem for Mercedes-Benz, especially in New Zealand. While they are on a roll in the luxury passenger car segment, they are lagging behind Audi and […]
Minis are fun – I think we all know that. The original Mini was a huge bundle of fun in a tiny, potentially deadly package, while the BMW interpretation of the Mini is almost as much fun in a far safer, more comfortable package. Now there is a new third-generation of the BMW Mini and […]
Curves, it seems, are currently in at Nissan. This is not to say that they didn’t have curves before, it’s just that now they are everywhere. Everything is sprouting the distinctive, curvy styling that was largely the domain of the big Murano, with even the big, butch Pathfinder recently falling victim to the current trend. […]
Following on from our road test of the 2WD Foton Tunland, we managed to get our sweaty hands on a 4WD one for a bit of farm-based off roading, just to see how well it acquits itself off the sealed stuff. The 2WD Foton Tunland impressed us quite a bit on road with its blend […]
While it has been easy to dismiss Chinese cars as cheap, nasty and only notable for their cheap prices, those days are rapidly coming to an end. Nowhere is that more evident that the ute segment. While the likes of Great Wall still trade on their low prices – and are very much built down […]
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