New Cars News

End of the line for Impreza WRX. Soon.

Subaru New Zealand has announced it will mark the end of the line for the current WRX with not one, but two new special editions. The first is the final run of cars in the batches of powered-up specials it has been doing for the last year and a half, starting with the black Ace […]

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Ford opens up

Modern cars have LOTS of sensors. The hardware and software in modern cars is simply staggering, but what is the point  of all that data? Well, most of it is used by the car to monitor all the various systems, while service technicians can also access it to see what has gone wrong when something […]

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OVERSTEER on The Crowd Goes Wild

While they didn’t mention the name of the website and edited out the bit where I told the New Guy that I was going to crush him like a bug, that was still me on the telly on Prime’s The Crowd Goes Wild looking like a fat git in a pink vest. You may notice […]

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Motorsport News

NZRDL attracts more drivers to motorsport

While “42” is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, it appears the answer to the question of how you encourage more people into motor racing is far more obvious; make it more affordable. Which is exactly what the newly-formed New Zealand Racing Drivers’ League has done and, as a […]

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Man destroys BMW with axe. Possibly because he is stupid…

Italian-based businessman Pourmohseni Hadi had complained to BMW repeatedly about his 2008 M6’s vibrations, jolts and bad gear shifts. BMW Italy couldn’t fix it, so he took the most rational course of action and beat the hell out of it with an axe and a sledgehammer in front of the Frankfurt motorshow. Hadi had been complaining […]

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Mercedes takes the wheel

Ever felt the urge to take your Mercedes for a quick drive over lunch, only to be thwarted when you remember that you don’t actually have a Mercedes? Well, Mercedes-Benz NZ are doing something that may just be a solution to your rather peculiar problem… MBNZ will be holding “Take the Wheel” events in central […]

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Paddon dominates final day of Rally Oz

Kiwi Hayden Paddon and his equally-Kiwi co-driver John Kennard came back from their poor start to Rally Oz to utterly dominate the WRC2 class of the final day of Rally Australia to win all six stages in the category. And even show a few of the WRC boys how it is done. Their outright speed […]

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Welcome to the new-look OVERSTEER!

It’s been a long time coming – and a hell of a lot of late nights – but here it is: the new-look OVERSTEER! Along with the new look, we have also tweaked the way we do things on the site with a growing emphasis on small, quick articles, links, videos and audio, as well […]

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