After a few days pottering around town in the Volt we headed down south to Otorohanga for a family Christmas. The first open road trip in the Volt was a rather uneventful and rather disappointingly ordinary experience, driving home the fact that the Volt is very much like an ordinary car to drive. Apart from […]
For the next few weeks, over the Christmas/New Year break, we have a Holden Volt to run around in. So we thought we would let you know exactly what it was like to actually live with Holden’s range extender electric car on a daily basis! We will be posting regular updates on our daily life […]
Is the Holden Volt the way of the future or a technological dead-end that will be quickly made obsolete? Hell, we don’t know! What we DO know though, is that the Volt is here now and it represents a major change in the way we are going to have to look at our cars in […]
The all-new Leon hatch and wagon have arrived in New Zealand in both standard Seat and hot Cupra forms.
We head over to Spain to drive that most unlikely of things – a diesel-powered Bentley SUV. And we come away rather impressed by it too!
Damien follows in the camel tracks of T.E. Lawrence in the deserts of Jordan. But in Fords.
The latest episode of the NZ Motoring Podcast is now available! In this episode Damien and David, plus regular guest Cameron Officer, each “spend” a fictional $500,000 on stocking the fantasy garage of their dreams. The results contained more Toyotas that anyone expected. We also drive the all-new Subaru Legacy sedan, the Renault Clio RS […]
The Navdy portable Heads-up display unit is looking like it is going to be one of our favourite gadgets of 2015 – and it is now available for pre-sale. The unit sits on the dashboard of any car and pairs up to your smartphone (Android or Apple) turning it into a line-of-sight heads-up display that allows for […]
… I’m gonna slap you like a bitch. It’s from the Quentin Tarantino movie Reservoir Dogs and it is how Mr. Blonde gets Nice Guy Eddie to shut up. In a similar vein, Ford has delivered one of the better corporate bitch-slaps of recent time Ford with a perfectly timed and brilliantly executed response to […]
Plug-in Hybrids, Range Extenders – whatever you want to call them depending on quite how they are wired up – are fascinating things to learn about and even more fascinating to drive. The most fascinating part of driving them, however, is how utterly normal the good ones are to drive. And that will be the […]
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