To say that buyers don’t want large vehicles anymore, and then point to the declining large car segment as proof, is actually somewhat spurious. While the proof would actually seem to be fairly black and white – large cars are selling in far fewer numbers every year – it’s actually more a matter of packaging. […]
Author: Damien O'Carroll
To say that the SsangYong Korando has come a long way from its beginnings as a Jeep made under license by the Geohwa Company in Korea in 1983 is a pretty massive understatement. The second generation was based on a shortened Musso platform and featured styling that was just plain ugly, really and the fact […]
Audi seems to have gone a bit Hatch Mental of late as it races to out-do BMW in the competition to create more (and more bizarre) new segments to sell increasingly niche versions of their vehicles in. As well as releasing a relatively straightforward (perhaps a little too straightforward…) new entry into the premium five-door […]
I have a bit of a soft-spot for the Toyota Highlander. I always though it handled quite well for such a comfortable big SUV, the engine had a nice snarl to it and always had a decent amount of grunt where ever you needed it, it was comfortable, well-built and handsome. Oh, and there was […]
Killzone 2 took a lot of flack because its graphics weren’t so hot (despite what the original trailers suggested…) but was forgiven (a little bit…) because it had a great story and likable characters. Well, Sony and game developer Guerilla obviously decided to fix that particular imbalance with Killzone 3 by making the graphics utterly […]
The Skoda Superb Combi 118 has got a lot of very good things going for it. The vast amounts of room it boasts inside, for starters. Then there are the obvious facts that it’s handsome, well loaded with standard kit, extremely sharply priced, has an extraordinarily good ride, decent handling, remarkable power from a seemingly […]
You may well think that the most significant thing about the Kia Cerato hatch is the fact that it is, well, a hatch. But you would, in fact, be wrong. You see, while the arrival of a hatch body style in the Cerato family is extremely significant to Kia here in New Zealand, where small […]
The formula of taking a big engine and jamming it into a small car is a time-honoured way of getting performance, leading to the creation of that hallowed class of pocket-sized performance cars, the Hot Hatch. The Toyota Blade Master is, on paper, a true proponent of the hot hatch ethos; an unnecessarily large (3.5-litre) […]
Q: How has the preseason build up been for you? Rubens Barrichello: This is my second year with the team and we are in much better shape than we were this time last year. Everything has been prepared well and the team are doing a really good job getting everything ready in time for Melbourne. […]
Honda has chosen to market the Insight in New Zealand as a small 5-door hatchback that just happens to be a hybrid, rather than just focus on the fact that it is a hybrid, a-la Prius. This may well prove to be a very smart strategy from Honda New Zealand, but probably not for the […]
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