XCAR takes a look at the Mini Cooper S John Cooper Works. Turns out it is pretty damn good!
Category: Random Stuff!
Mondays suck. Having to go to work, and sit in traffic to get there, is no fun after a weekend. So each week we will bring you something catchy and upbeat to make the commute a bit more bearable. This Monday, in honour of their first and last concert in New Zealand, we bring you […]
Lotus F1 driver Pastor Maldonado has something of a reputation as an off-road driver/one man car destruction team, and it now seems that Lotus have decided to embrace that with their latest F1 car. Featuring chunky off-road tyres, spikes, skulls, armour and flame throwers, it would seem to be a car custom-designed for Maldonado’s driving […]
This is possibly something you never really wanted to see, but here is a video of an Audi R8 giving birth to an Audi RS3…
We head back to Pukekohe in 1973 for this week’s BLAST, where Jim Richards – in the winning Charger he drove with Rod Coppins – exits the hairpin during the Benson and Hedges 500. Thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic.
The last time XCAR raced Crazy Carts it was around an office – this one is around a toy store. You know you would too…
Jaguar’s new XE is here soon – can it go toe-to-toe with the BMW 3 Series? Is it at least better than the unfortunate X-Type? XCAR finds out!
Mondays suck. Having to go to work, and sit in traffic to get there, is no fun after a weekend. So each week we will bring you something catchy and upbeat to make the commute a bit more bearable. This Monday, it is “Robot (featuring a robot)” by brilliant kiwi artist Tommy Ill. Enjoy!
For our BLAST FROM THE PAST this week Kieran Roberts takes us to Levin in 1967 with the legendary Robbie Francevic behind the wheel of the equally legendary Custaxie. From Kieran’s website: “The Custaxie name came from an amalgamation of a 1955 Ford Customline fitted with a 7-litre Ford Galaxie engine, Francevic’s team making full use of New […]
I got my first motorcycle in 1992. I was sixteen. The steed I purchased from my friend Mike was a 1986 Honda NS250R, a screaming little 33kW, two-stroke, 250cc crutch rocket. Back then, the law stated that any bike 250cc or under was suitable for a learner, despite the fact that these two-strokes put out […]
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