We’ve all been waiting. We’ve heard that it’s brilliant in overseas reports. Now we finally get our chance to sample the Toyota 86 on local soil. Even better, on a local race track! We head to the launch of Toyota’s newest sports car. What is it? Quite simply, the single-most anticipated Toyota in a very […]
Category: First Drives
Hyundai’s single biggest-selling model enters its second generation with the release of an all-new i30. The first one was a massive success for Hyundai. We head to Napier – via Wellington – and then back to Wellington again (fog, delays, lots of time sitting in airport lounges…) to find out what it’s like. What is […]
After an absence of a couple of years the big Chrysler is back on New Zealand shores. It’s lost a C and most of its gangster looks, but it has gained a whole bunch of kit and a seriously upgraded interior. We head to Taupo to see if the 300 can still pop a cap […]
The least interesting model in the Lexus sedan line up gets an extreme makeover and a new image as sporty, exciting and packed full of soul… We head to the North Waikato to find out if this is a load of old marketing bollocks or not. WHAT IS IT? The over-looked middle child of the […]
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 […]
A hybrid you could actually like? Sounds impossible, but Toyota may well have managed it with its new compact hybrid, the Prius C; a new entry in the Prius family and Toyota’s first attempt to expand the Prius name into a family rather than a single model. What is it? Basically a smaller Prius that […]
Saying that the new SsangYong Actyon Sports is a vast visual improvement over the old model is an understatement on par with Neville Chamberlin deciding that that chap with the funny moustache in charge of Germany in 1938 wasn’t actually that bad a bloke. Which is an historically-referenced way of saying that while the Actyon […]
Is 2012 going to be Hyundai’s year? The Korean manufacturer’s New Zealand distributor is certainly planning for that. And if the i40 wagon is anything to go by, it is mighty hard to disagree with them. What is it? A wagon version of Hyundai’s current mid-size entrant the i45, right? Well… not really. You see, […]
Just a Camry? That’s never actually been a bad thing… We go to the launch of the new Toyota Camry to see what exactly IS new. What is it? An all new Camry, baby! Well… kind of. Actually, make that “mostly”… While the new 7th generation Camry may sit on the previous car’s platform, it […]
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