Spending a few days motoring around Auckland in the Hyundai i40 may not be the best way to get an idea of how economical its 1.7-litre four-cylinder diesel engine actually is. It is still relatively decent, returning mid-to-high 8’s in terms of litres per 100km, but after a bit of typically shit Auckland traffic and […]
Category: Road Tests
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Honda CR-Z Honda has looked back to its past for the new CR-Z, resurrecting the spirit of the classic CR-X for what could potentially be the most exciting Honda in years. Hondas used to be exciting. Even the boring ones like the Civic. Honda gave us VTEC engines that revved up to […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari The first thing everybody notices are the Ferrari badges. Then they ask what the hell it is… We attempt to explain the Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari. It would be easy to write the rather awkwardly named Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari off as a cheap and nasty attempt by […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW 1 Series M Coupe Is the BMW 1 Series M Coupe just a 135i with the wick turned up? Not a chance… We take the feral 1M for a good thrash to find out just how much of a proper M car it is! When BMW announced it was going […]
With the facelift of the current W204 iteration of the C-class, Mercedes-Benz has taken what was already a very good car and simply made it better. This sounds like a fairly sensible thing to do with a new model, but you would be surprised how many times it doesn’t work that way. Not with the […]
Let’s get the most annoying aspect of the Hyundai iLoad out of the way first – the key. The key for the iLoad isn’t so much of a problem in itself – after all it is a key, it does what keys are supposed to do; start the vehicle. Rather it is the positioning of […]
There is much argument over what car could truly be considered King of the Hot Hatch genre, but you would have to be extraordinarily one-eyed – or maybe a bit stupid – if you didn’t at least concede that it most likely comes down to a choice between to two originators of the class – […]
Referring to a car as refined, luxurious and poised as the BMW 535d as a muscle car seems more than a little incongruous, given that the phrase generally conjures up images of luridly-coloured American cars with colossal petrol-slurping V8 engines and lots of tyre smoke. In regards to that definition, the soberly-coloured, diesel-sipping turbo 3-litre […]
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. […]
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 […]
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