First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Range Rover Sport

The Range Rover Sport has been a remarkable success for the Jaguar Land Rover Group since its launch in 2005 and that success would certainly appear to be continuing for the all-new model, which has already seen 100 orders placed before it even goes on sale locally. In fact the demand is so strong that […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Peugeot 3008 HY4

Hybrids. They’re the future, buddy. Except they’re not. A feel-good stop-gap between internal combustion and true emission-free motoring, to be sure, but hardly the long-term future. But as a short-term solution, the diesel-hybrid goodness of the Peugeot 3008 HY4 is about as good – and certainly as quirky – as they come. Forget all this […]

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First Drives New Cars

A bunch of Hyundais

Or should that be “A bunch of Hyundai”? Pffft… plurals. Who cares? Anyway, a low-key series of revamps was there order of the day for the Hyundai MY14 range launch in a wet, miserable Auckland the other day. The ix35, i40 wagon, Accent and Elantra all got upgrades for the forthcoming sales year, adding more […]

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News

Social media ‘n stuff

Just in case you don’t know OVERSTEER is also on the Twitter (@OversteerNZ), the Facebook (OversteerNZ) and Tumblr (OversteerNZ) and you can also check out our lovely pics on Instagram (OversteerNZ) and Flickr (OversteerNZ), although we haven’t got around to doing a lot with the last one yet. We will though! So get Liking and […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Mercedes-Benz E400 Estate

The Mercedes Benz E-Class has always had a slightly hard road to travel, what with having to cary out multiple duties as a taxi, luxury express and see-you-out car, depending on its market, spec level and perceived place in things in the country it is sold in. While that may seem to make it a […]

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Classic

Something old…

Yesterday we posted our coverage of the magnificent new Bentley Flying Spur, which we rather liked. Today we head back in time a wee bit to (almost) the beginnings of Bentley. The Flying Spur launch was held at Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell and, as they only had two Flying Spurs available for road drives, […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Bentley Flying Spur

Bentley’s resurgence under Volkswagen’s ownership has been a sometimes-painful, but mostly gratifying thing to observe. The Continental did attract an unfortunate number of footballer’s WAGs to the table, but the strong racing spirit that has been quietly rekindled (the 2003 Le Mans win and the forthcoming Continental GT3 race car) is now starting to shine […]

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New Cars Quick Drives

QUICK DRIVE: Honda Accord V6

For a full Road Test of the Honda Accord 2.4 click here. It is almost like Honda started with the V6 version of the new Accord, then started pulling stuff off it to create the four-cylinder version. “Two cylinders? Yep, get rid of those.” “That extra ratio in the transmission? Lose it.” “Those sexy twin […]

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