New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Lexus LS 600hL

OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Lexus LS 600hL It’s massive, impossibly quiet and unsettlingly brown and we here at OVERSTEER love it to bits; the Lexus LS 600hL is the biggest Lexus on the block and it just keeps getting quieter and more high-tech. But has a recent infusion of bling hurt it at all? We take […]

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Wedge profile with heavily raked windscreen almost makes this a one-box shape — but still unconvincing as a performance car! Seriously though, it’s got four big doors, a reasonable amount of room inside for four adults and an attaché case of luggage. News

Daihatsu bites the dust!

  Bad news for Kiwi Daihatsu fans (and that includes OVERSTEER’s very own Allan Dick…) today, when Toyota New Zealand announced that it was discontinuing the brand in New Zealand. According to TNZ’s General Manager of sales and operations, Steve Prangnell, the company is “regretfully unable to secure Daihatsu products that comply with future regulatory standards […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST LOCAL DRIVE: BMW M135i

In October last year we bought you the First Drive of the new mega-hot hatch from BMW, the M135i. That was in Australia. Now we are proud to bring you the very first drive of the M135i on New Zealand soil. OVERSTEER has driven the car more than 1,500km from Auckland to Queenstown over two […]

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Baird sets Highlands lap record

Just the thing for a lazy Easter weekend – watch Craig Baird set the lap record – 1 minute 41.9 seconds – at the opening of the awesome Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell. Baird is driving a McLaren MP4-12C purchased by Highlands’ owner, Tony Quinn, specially to set the first lap record. The whole thing […]

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Subaru shows WRX concept, tells us nothing about it…

Subaru unveiled a stunning concept version of the new WRX at the New York motor show today, then went on to release a comedy press release that basically just describes the car. No word on production-readiness, power, engines or anything really. It just tells us that the production version won’t really look anything like this, […]

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