Audi seems to have gone a bit Hatch Mental of late as it races to out-do BMW in the competition to create more (and more bizarre) new segments to sell increasingly niche versions of their vehicles in. As well as releasing a relatively straightforward (perhaps a little too straightforward…) new entry into the premium five-door […]
Category: Road Tests
I have a bit of a soft-spot for the Toyota Highlander. I always though it handled quite well for such a comfortable big SUV, the engine had a nice snarl to it and always had a decent amount of grunt where ever you needed it, it was comfortable, well-built and handsome. Oh, and there was […]
The Skoda Superb Combi 118 has got a lot of very good things going for it. The vast amounts of room it boasts inside, for starters. Then there are the obvious facts that it’s handsome, well loaded with standard kit, extremely sharply priced, has an extraordinarily good ride, decent handling, remarkable power from a seemingly […]
You may well think that the most significant thing about the Kia Cerato hatch is the fact that it is, well, a hatch. But you would, in fact, be wrong. You see, while the arrival of a hatch body style in the Cerato family is extremely significant to Kia here in New Zealand, where small […]
The formula of taking a big engine and jamming it into a small car is a time-honoured way of getting performance, leading to the creation of that hallowed class of pocket-sized performance cars, the Hot Hatch. The Toyota Blade Master is, on paper, a true proponent of the hot hatch ethos; an unnecessarily large (3.5-litre) […]
Honda has chosen to market the Insight in New Zealand as a small 5-door hatchback that just happens to be a hybrid, rather than just focus on the fact that it is a hybrid, a-la Prius. This may well prove to be a very smart strategy from Honda New Zealand, but probably not for the […]
On paper, the Citroen DS3 DStyle doesn’t sound all that special. Oh, sure, it looks great, with its consciously fashionable, ever-so-slightly purposely over-designed styling, it is a truly attractive and, more importantly, interesting entrant into the premium supermini segment. But when you start looking at the meat of the spec-sheet – the engine and transmission […]
Seeing the Porsche Panamera in your driveway can fill you with a number of different feelings, largely depending on what angle you are looking at it from. Catch it front ¾, from down low and the 911-esque nose and wide, muscular stance makes it look sexy. However, catch it from the rear and slightly above […]
BMW recently unveiled a lavish facelift for the cars in the 3-series range that feature only two doors – the coupe and convertible, that is. Actually, scratch that, they played about a bit with the bumpers and tweaked a few other bits that you won’t notice and that’s pretty much it for the visual changes […]
What can be said about the Corolla that hasn’t really already been said before. Many, many times before. It’s a car. Not a particularly exciting car, but far from being offensively awful. Well engineered. Reliable. User friendly. Solid resale. A bit dull. Kind of like those processed, individually wrapped cheese slices really; you know what […]
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