Wagons are cool. Even the lamest car is cooler as a wagon. So a brilliant car like the Skoda Octavia gets even more brilliant as a wagon. Don’t ask me how, it’s just the law or something… Outside Likes: New corporate nose far more modern and sleek. Compact wagon proportions are spot on. Actually looks […]
Author: Damien O'Carroll
Traditionally – well, in recent history, at least – small, sporty, two-door cars have been mainly bought by people over 40, with at least half of them being of the female persuasion. That was, of course, until the Toyota 86 came along and dared to attract a whole bunch of young males to a market […]
The Subaru Legacy turbo wagon has been something of a performance icon in New Zealand since they poured into the country in their thousands back in the Japanese imports days of the early ’90s. Since then the used imports have dried up and Subaru have moved out of their “enthusiast” niche in a concerted effort […]
The Toyota 86 has been widely praised as one of the best Bang-For-Your-Buck packages out there and rightly so – there is little that possesses such a purity of handling for less than six figures and even less that looks as purposeful doing it. But now Toyota has raised the stakes even further by releasing […]
Every time a new BMW X5 is launched there comes the constant reminder from BMW that it is most definitely NOT an SUV. Nope. SUV stands for Sports Utility Vehicle and the X5 most certainly not that. No, apparently the X5 is an SAV or Sports Activity Vehicle. Yes, apparently there IS a difference. To […]
If you love movies and cars, then you have to check out the AFICIONAUTO YouTube channel. In each episode photographer and filmmaker Chris Rutkowski looks at a different iconic movie car and the people that own them. The videos are fascinating, fun and beautifully filmed and well worth a look. Check out the first episode […]
“A massive improvement” would be the best way to describe the revised Colorado ute and Colorado 7 SUV. And it was an improvement that needed to happen too. When it was launched the Colorado was, well, underwhelming. Holden had taken aim at the venerable Toyota Hilux and while it had made a better ute than […]
I remember when the “new” Fiat 500 first came out. I loved the way it looked, but I always felt strangely unsatisfied by the way it drove. In fact, the same could be said of most small Italian cars. I just couldn’t understand why they didn’t have the same flair and vigour of larger Italian […]
It may be shameless, but it is pretty cool. We are currently in Thailand on the launch of the latest Ford Fiesta. During a break in the drive programme we stopped at the brilliant Thai Elephant Conservation Centre, where we witnessed this shameless, but thoroughly brilliant piece of promotion – an elephant writing the word […]
Now, it is no secret that we here at OVERSTEER are fans of the Citroen DS3 Sport hatch. After all, you only have to read our original road test of the automatic version to see evidence of that. That’s right, it was automatic and ONLY FOUR SPEEDS, yet we still fell in love with it. […]
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