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Cop this!

Got more money than you reasonably know how to spend? Well then, you could either chuck some OVERSTEER’s way or you could blow a chunk of it buying your very own, one-of-a-kind prototype bespoke police car. Seriously. The Carbon Motors E7 looked to be well on track to become a production reality and, as such, would […]

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It’s a vision…

That sexy shape under a sheet you’ve looked longingly at on the preview cover/poster/ad for the forthcoming PS3 game Gran Turismo 6? Well, this is it; the Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision GT. Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi approached several car makers to come up with something special for the legendary game’s 15th anniversary, and the Vision […]

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Coming soon!

We are going to try something new very shortly – Live Road Tests! Well… when we say “Live” we actually mean a Road Test that we update daily as we actually have the car – not a test that comes days, weeks or even months (if we’ve been particularly lazy…) after we have had it. […]

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News Random Stuff!

Playing with ourselves…

Well, in a sense… Here is a teaser – there will shortly be an OVERSTEER game! That’s right, coming soon – initially on iOS – will be the OVERSTEER racing game. We can’t tell you much more about it at this stage, other than it will be utterly awesome and huge amounts of fun. We […]

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New Cars News

More Police awesomeness from Dubai

Clearly having a fleet of some of the sexiest and most expensive supercars in the world isn’t enough for the Dubai police department – now they are turning to pimped-out SUVs. They have just added a Brabus B63S-700 Widestar to the fleet. Packing a Brabus-tweaked 5.5-litre biturbo V8, the Brabus beast is good for 522kW […]

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New Cars News

It’s back!

Ford has announced the comeback of the Falcon XR8 and, in doing so, will make the awesome supercharged V8 ‘Miami’ engine available in the Falcon for the first (and last) time! The XR8 was dropped in 2010 when FPV moved to the supercharged engine (the old V8 no longer met emission standards), meaning that no […]

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Social media ‘n stuff

Just in case you don’t know OVERSTEER is also on the Twitter (@OversteerNZ), the Facebook (OversteerNZ) and Tumblr (OversteerNZ) and you can also check out our lovely pics on Instagram (OversteerNZ) and Flickr (OversteerNZ), although we haven’t got around to doing a lot with the last one yet. We will though! So get Liking and […]

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Motorsport News

Bamber lands Porsche factory Supercup scholarship

23-year old Kiwi Earl Bamber looks set to rocket back onto the international scene  following the announcement that he is the winner of the Porsche Motorsport International Cup Scholarship challenge. Bamber was nominated for the scholarship shootout by the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia championship after he dominated the series in his first year competing in […]

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