OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Mini Cooper Baker Street As the Mini is starting to get on a bit now, BMW has seen fit to start tarting it up a bit and firing out a bunch of “Special Editions” with extra kit and special paintwork and bits of trim. This is, of course, a Mini tradition, as […]
Category: Road Tests
The Volkswagen Amarok has been around for a couple of years now, but that hasn’t dulled the impact of just how damn good it is. It came in to the ute segment with a bang and drastically shook up the concept of just what it was we expected from our workhorses. They no longer had […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Renault Megane RS265 The Renault Megane RS265 is one of the hottest Hot Hatches currently available in the New Zealand market. We take one fresh off the Targa for a thrash. Well, what the hell did you expect us to do with it? Although recently all Renault has seemed to be capable […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW X6 xDrive40d BMW has always taken a quiet approach to mid-life refreshments of its vehicles, even down to the term it uses to describe them. Where pretty much everyone else calls it a facelift, BMW prefer the term “Life Cycle Impulse” or LCI for short (and because they also love acronyms…) […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Subaru Legacy X The new Subaru Legacy sedan range-topper is a slightly unusual beast – it is a sedan with the increased ride-height of crossover. Fully-loaded with tech and toys, the Legacy X may look a bit odd and fill an extraordinarily narrow niche, but it is quite convincing… Alright, I will […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Honda Euro Civic L There is a strange mental disconnect when you approach the Honda Euro Civic hatch for the first time. You find yourself slightly confused. Surely, you think to yourself, this can’t be in any way related to the other car to carry the Civic name, that dull, uninspiring sedan […]
Do we love the Toyota 86? Of course we do! But does that mean it is a car that you can really live with on a daily basis? It is, of course, a fairly specialised sports car, but then it is also a Toyota made by Subaru, suggesting that if anyone can make a sports […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW 320d When BMW launched the new 3 Series earlier this year, the company also resurrected its long-time “Ultimate Driving Machine” marketing tag. At the launch we concluded that the new 3 Series did indeed live up to the tried and true line, with a great mix of ride quality and tenacious […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Audi A5 Sportback 3.0 TDI quattro If one was feeling particularly unkind, it would be easy to suggest that the Audi A5 Sportback is an answer to a question that nobody had asked. It is, after all, fairly unlikely that someone would walk into an Audi dealership and say “Hmmm… I really […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Hyundai i30 Elite The small hatch segment is an ultra-competitive market where the weak are quickly cast to one side. The Hyundai i30 has been a consistently strong performer in a segment dominated by the all-conquering Toyota Corolla, but also features the impressive Ford Focus, VW Golf and Mazda3. Now there is […]
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