Next week Oversteer will be off on a massive road trip of thoroughly epic proportions! Well… going on holiday in the South Island with my mum… Anyway, our ride will be a Hyundai i40 Elite wagon, filled with bells and whistles and a 1.7-litre turbo diesel engine. We will be posting regular updates on the […]
Author: Damien O'Carroll
To celebrate the fact that Easter 2008 was possibly the best weekend of Oversteer’s life, we present the article written after driving an elderly Cadillac down to Wellington to rock out for the long weekend at ROCK2WGTN! Although the article seems rather complimentary to the Cadillac, that was largely due to the fact that the […]
Chrysler have revealed the new SRT Viper at the New York motor show. The only American car worth bothering with – other than the Corvette – is said by the company to be lighter, more powerful and feature a far more “premium” interior than before, largely due to it borrowing some materials from SRT’s Chrysler […]
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OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Honda CR-Z Honda has looked back to its past for the new CR-Z, resurrecting the spirit of the classic CR-X for what could potentially be the most exciting Honda in years. Hondas used to be exciting. Even the boring ones like the Civic. Honda gave us VTEC engines that revved up to […]
Let’s face it, as awesome as television is movies are even better. Bigger screens, bigger budgets and more explosions, movies are just great. So with that in mind we go one better than last week’s TV car Top Ten and bring you the Ten Best Movie Cars EVER! 10. Eleanor ― “Gone in 60 Seconds” […]
Closer to the Edge may, at first glance, appear to be a film about motorbikes and the mental characters that insist on racing them around the suicidal Isle of Man TT course, but on watching it, it actually reveals itself to be a funny, exhilarating and touching look at what actually drives these mental characters. […]
The new F30 BMW 3 Series is bigger, faster and better looking than the old E90, but is it better? We head to a wet and windy Taupo for the New Zealand launch to find out. What is it? The Ultimate Driving Machine again, apparently. The “Joy” line has been quietly dropped from BMW’s marketing […]
Television has provided us with some great moments; ALF pretending to be Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise going mental on Oprah, the Star Wars Christmas Special and that episode of Blackadder with Tom Baker in it. So to celebrate how awesome TV is, here are the ten best cars to ever appear in a television series… […]
What do you get if you combine 1,000Nm of torque, 463kW of power and a serious lack of taste? Possibly the hairiest hairdresser’s car on the planet. Mercedes-Benz have just released details of the completely silly SL65 AMG, a convertible packing AMG’s colossal 6-litre twin-turbo V12 engine. Along with the new face, the uber-SL now […]
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