Recently we were lucky enough to spend four days with the mighty BMW M6 down in the South Island. This wasn’t a true road test – that will come later – what we were doing was taking it on a road trip from Christchurch to Dunedin, with a bypass on the way to check out […]
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WHY HIGHLANDS?: By now, it’s probably pretty well understood that Highlands Motorsport Park near Cromwell is not going to be just another motor racing circuit on the Ruapuna, Levels, Teretonga loop. While there will be motor racing meetings, these will be restricted under the terms of the resource consent and those meetings will not necessarily […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW X6 xDrive40d BMW has always taken a quiet approach to mid-life refreshments of its vehicles, even down to the term it uses to describe them. Where pretty much everyone else calls it a facelift, BMW prefer the term “Life Cycle Impulse” or LCI for short (and because they also love acronyms…) […]
BMW’s M Performance range of cars have been conceived to plug that irritating gap (slight sarcasm there…) between ordinary BMWs and the full-fat M cars. One could see this as a cynical money-grabbing exercise to cash in on the cachet of the M badge without actually having to put in the effort. Except for the […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW 320d When BMW launched the new 3 Series earlier this year, the company also resurrected its long-time “Ultimate Driving Machine” marketing tag. At the launch we concluded that the new 3 Series did indeed live up to the tried and true line, with a great mix of ride quality and tenacious […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW M3 E30 Legendary, Iconic, Freakin’ Awesome – all of these phrases and more have been applied to BMW’s M cars over the years, and rightfully so too. But as awesome as all the M cars are, none are more legendary or iconic than the original E30 M3. We are lucky enough […]
The new F30 BMW 3 Series is bigger, faster and better looking than the old E90, but is it better? We head to a wet and windy Taupo for the New Zealand launch to find out. What is it? The Ultimate Driving Machine again, apparently. The “Joy” line has been quietly dropped from BMW’s marketing […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW 1 Series M Coupe Is the BMW 1 Series M Coupe just a 135i with the wick turned up? Not a chance… We take the feral 1M for a good thrash to find out just how much of a proper M car it is! When BMW announced it was going […]
BMW has released details and pictures of the new 1 Series. The next-generation small car was developed on the same platform architecture as the new 3-series and will, like the original 1 Series, appear first as a five-door hatch. It will be followed by a new three-door early next year, and will eventually spawn a […]
Referring to a car as refined, luxurious and poised as the BMW 535d as a muscle car seems more than a little incongruous, given that the phrase generally conjures up images of luridly-coloured American cars with colossal petrol-slurping V8 engines and lots of tyre smoke. In regards to that definition, the soberly-coloured, diesel-sipping turbo 3-litre […]
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