OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW X6 xDrive40d BMW has always taken a quiet approach to mid-life refreshments of its vehicles, even down to the term it uses to describe them. Where pretty much everyone else calls it a facelift, BMW prefer the term “Life Cycle Impulse” or LCI for short (and because they also love acronyms…) […]
Author: Damien O'Carroll
McLaren have posted the entire BBC documentary “How to Build a Supercar” on their YouTube page. If you do not watch this then there is something wrong with you. It is fantastic, possibly more for showing the way Ron Dennis’ obsessive mind works than the actual car, but even that is fascinating!
Somewhere, sometime, some unkind soul will no doubt have accused the Toyota Corolla of being dull. To be honest, no one outside of the company would have argued with you. And the people in the company only thought it was exciting because it made them so much money. Now there is a new Corolla. One […]
Kimi Räikkönen has shown that old German bloke how a comeback should happen with his brilliant win at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Now he does that rarest of things and speaks of his win and how he plans to celebrate that win. Check out the last answer; he hopes to make it home at […]
BMW’s M Performance range of cars have been conceived to plug that irritating gap (slight sarcasm there…) between ordinary BMWs and the full-fat M cars. One could see this as a cynical money-grabbing exercise to cash in on the cachet of the M badge without actually having to put in the effort. Except for the […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Subaru Legacy X The new Subaru Legacy sedan range-topper is a slightly unusual beast – it is a sedan with the increased ride-height of crossover. Fully-loaded with tech and toys, the Legacy X may look a bit odd and fill an extraordinarily narrow niche, but it is quite convincing… Alright, I will […]
Audi recently unleashed a whole new generation of performance S-cars at the Hampton Downs race track. It was an invitation we couldn’t say no to… What are they? The S versions of Audis have traditionally been strong sellers in New Zealand, so it should come as no surprise that when they become available, Audi NZ […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Honda Euro Civic L There is a strange mental disconnect when you approach the Honda Euro Civic hatch for the first time. You find yourself slightly confused. Surely, you think to yourself, this can’t be in any way related to the other car to carry the Civic name, that dull, uninspiring sedan […]
The stunning Lexus LF-LC ,that first appeared at the Detroit Motor Show in January and was recently updated as the LF-LC Blue at the recent Australian International Motor Show, could well make it into production, according to Toyota Production Manager Karl Schlicht. According to Schlicht, the reaction to the concept at the Detroit show had […]
Ever wonder what would happen if Bruce Wayne’s fortunes took a recessionary turn for the worse and Batman was forced to economise a bit? Well, it would probably look a bit like this… Fortunately though, this isn’t the result of a slightly shit, low-budget fourth installment of Christopher Nolan’s series of movies either, but rather […]
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