I remember when the “new” Fiat 500 first came out. I loved the way it looked, but I always felt strangely unsatisfied by the way it drove. In fact, the same could be said of most small Italian cars. I just couldn’t understand why they didn’t have the same flair and vigour of larger Italian […]
Category: Road Tests
Now, it is no secret that we here at OVERSTEER are fans of the Citroen DS3 Sport hatch. After all, you only have to read our original road test of the automatic version to see evidence of that. That’s right, it was automatic and ONLY FOUR SPEEDS, yet we still fell in love with it. […]
Hybrids. They’re the future, buddy. Except they’re not. A feel-good stop-gap between internal combustion and true emission-free motoring, to be sure, but hardly the long-term future. But as a short-term solution, the diesel-hybrid goodness of the Peugeot 3008 HY4 is about as good – and certainly as quirky – as they come. Forget all this […]
The Mercedes Benz E-Class has always had a slightly hard road to travel, what with having to cary out multiple duties as a taxi, luxury express and see-you-out car, depending on its market, spec level and perceived place in things in the country it is sold in. While that may seem to make it a […]
Let’s be honest here; since the original genre-defining 205 GTi, most of the Peugeots that have worn the hallowed Hot Hatch GTi badge have fallen well short of deserving it. That is not to say that Peugeot haven’t built cars worthy of wearing the GTi badge, because they most certainly have – the 306 S16 […]
The Lexus IS is the car that scared the hell out of BMW when it first car out. With a choice of a screaming four-cylinder or a refined V6, the IS was the car that looked set to challenge the 3 Series as the ruler of the medium sporty sedan segment. Except that never really […]
Bogan-tastic! With the release of a new Commodore comes the inevitable V8-powered SS version! And with the addition of the FE3 sports suspension-equipped Redline model to the permanent line up, things would appear to be very promising indeed for Aussie performance fans. Except… they have made it VERY quiet indeed. With the bogan in us […]
The current Subaru Outback diesel was a thoroughly brilliant car that was really only let down in one way: it was too expensive. Now, at a recent launch of the MY14 line up on a beautifully sunny Waiheke Island, Subaru have fixed that particular issue by gouging $5K out of the Outback diesel’s asking […]
Hot Hatches are back in force this year, with a remarkable array of small FWD road rockets scampering out of the showrooms this last year. The mental Renault Megane RS265, the awesome Ford Focus ST, the utterly brilliant VW Golf GTI – all of those have been out favourite at one stage or another over […]
For many years having a SSS badge on you Nissan meant exciting things. Then it didn’t. Now Nissan are having a crack at putting some sizzle back into the SSS badge again with a hot version of the deadly-dull Pulsar hatch. Have they got it right? Well, sort of… only sort of… Outside Likes: Subtle […]
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