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Quattro

Got a spare 20 minutes this weekend? No? Well, find an excuse to not do something for 20 minutes and watch this brilliant video /DRIVE have done looking back at some of the great quattro cars Audi have made. And, yes, our video road test of the RS6 Avant is STILL coming…

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD Limited

The Grand Cherokee has always been one of those vehicles that was just plain likeable, even when it was a poorly built, soggy, big American cruiser. Now it is much more than that. Much, much more. One of our favourites – aside from the monstrous SRT8 version – has always been the brawny diesel-engined variants. […]

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New Cars Quick Drives

QUICK DRIVE: Subaru Legacy 2.5X

While we initially questioned the need for a Subaru Legacy sedan with the jacked-up ride height of the Outback, we did fall for the Legacy 3.6X when we road tested it just over a year ago. It was a car that didn’t seem to serve a logical purpose, but worked remarkably well anyway. It was […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: BMW X5

Every time a new BMW X5 is launched there comes the constant reminder from BMW that it is most definitely NOT an SUV. Nope. SUV stands for Sports Utility Vehicle and the X5 most certainly not that. No, apparently the X5 is an SAV or Sports Activity Vehicle. Yes, apparently there IS a difference. To […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Holden Colorado

“A massive improvement” would be the best way to describe the revised Colorado ute and Colorado 7 SUV. And it was an improvement that needed to happen too. When it was launched the Colorado was, well, underwhelming. Holden had taken aim at the venerable Toyota Hilux and while it had made a better ute than […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Range Rover Sport

The Range Rover Sport has been a remarkable success for the Jaguar Land Rover Group since its launch in 2005 and that success would certainly appear to be continuing for the all-new model, which has already seen 100 orders placed before it even goes on sale locally. In fact the demand is so strong that […]

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Random Stuff!

From bad to worse. Then MUCH worse…

These guys seem like professionals. They seem to know what they are doing, but they end up rather worse that they started. There are a number of questions we can ask from this video – the main one being “why didn’t he just leave the winch attached to the tree and pull them both out?”, […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Subaru Outback diesel

  The current Subaru Outback diesel was a thoroughly brilliant car that was really only let down in one way: it was too expensive. Now, at a recent launch of the MY14 line up on a beautifully sunny Waiheke Island, Subaru have fixed that particular issue by gouging $5K out of the Outback diesel’s asking […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Mercedes-Benz CLA

Small sedans; we don’t really get what they are all about here and they avoid them like Ben Affleck movies in Asian countries (except for China). However, they are VERY popular in the USA and they would seem poised to be The Next Big Thing in Europe. So does that mean the Mercedes-Benz CLA is […]

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