New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Mercedes-Benz CLA 45 AMG Shooting Brake

Quite how AMG manages to get a blistering 265kW out of a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine without it exploding into shrapnel after about ten minutes is staggering. How the also get it to be not only useable, but also relatively docile and tractable around town has, quite frankly, got us buggered. Needless to say, however, […]

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Motorsport

The same old race…

This sort of thing has been done so many times now it is not funny. But still it is a very cool thing to watch! A single lap handicapped race between a 2011 Red Bull RB7 driven by David Coulthard, a current Triple 8 Red Bull Holden V8 Supercar driven by Steven Richards and the […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Mercedes-Benz E 63S AMG

Big noise and big power. The American manufacturers understand the appeal of this concept and so do the Aussie manufacturers. But you know who else understands the appeal of big, fast, noisy cars? The Germans. The Mercedes-Benz E 63S AMG is one of the biggest, noisiest, fastest cars to come out of Germany and it […]

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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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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Mercedes-Benz E 63S AMG

When it comes to truly world-class performance machinery derived from lesser, but still brilliant, cars there are really only two names that count. Or, rather, four letters: “M” and “AMG”. The Germans know how to squeeze utterly mental power out of otherwise “standard” cars better than anyone else on the planet. I mean, take the […]

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News

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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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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Local SLS AMG Black Series price announced

Got a lazy half a mil lying about? Better start checking down the side of the couch then, because Mercedes-Benz has just announced the price of the Black Series version of the SLS AMG Coupe. NZ$528,150 will get your necessarily narrow buttocks wedged into the SLS Black Series’ racing seat and it will no doubt […]

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