The Toyota Yaris is one of those cars, like its big brother Corolla, that is hard to get particularly excited by, but is also equally hard to go past when it comes to actually laying money down and buying it. It is not exciting, but that legendary Toyota reputation, paired up with the fact that […]
Category: First Drives
Back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, when they first appeared, the recipe for a Hot Hatch was fairly simple – take the smallest car in your range and stuff the biggest engine you can make fit into it. That was all you needed, and in most cases it worked well. In others, not so much, […]
The Volkswagen Polo has alway been one of our favourite small cars, but the car buying public in New Zealand seems less convinced. To them, the Polo is pretty much their seventh favourite small car, as that is exactly where it sits in the sales charts. But Volkswagen NZ is determined to change this situation […]
We are currently up north driving a very special little car. Look for a full First Drive of the fantastic little Audi S1 very shortly…
It was here, then it left. Now the Renault Megane Renaultsport 265 is back, this time with a new face and an increase in spec. What is the same is the mental amounts of fun the little fast Frenchie is on the road. We headed out to Hampton Downs race track just to make sure… […]
The Mercedes-Benz C-Class was previously the smallest Benz you could get. But now an entire family based on the new A-Class has popped up below it in the range to take care of the “entry level” duties for the brand, leaving the C-Class to get on with its happy spread into both middle-age and mid-size […]
We rather liked the Holden Trax when it was launched late last year, but we weren’t exactly in love with the venerable 1.8-litre petrol engine that did reluctant, noisy duty under the stubby bonnet. But now Holden has stuck a modern engine in the cutesy Trax – the 103kW/200Nm 1.4-litre iTi turbo four-cylinder petrol that […]
The Nissan Qashqai was subject to a lot of ridicule for its silly name when it was first released, but the jokes stopped when we all got used to it and everyone realised that it was a thoroughly excellent car. Now there is an all-new version of the car that has been a big success […]
So this is what we are up to next week… any ideas what we are going to Thailand to drive?
Rarely has one letter and one number meant so much when joined together. They are M and 3. This is exactly the sort of embarrassingly pretentious and utterly wanky prose that the BMW M3 inspires. As soon as I wrote it, I regretted it. But it serves as a great example of what the […]
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