New Cars News

Oversteer’s Big Adventure!

Next week Oversteer will be off on a massive road trip of thoroughly epic proportions! Well… going on holiday in the South Island with my mum… Anyway, our ride will be a Hyundai i40 Elite wagon, filled with bells and whistles and a 1.7-litre turbo diesel engine. We will be posting regular updates on the […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: SsangYong Actyon Sports

Saying that the new SsangYong Actyon Sports is a vast visual improvement over the old model is an understatement on par with Neville Chamberlin deciding that that chap with the funny moustache in charge of Germany in 1938 wasn’t actually that bad a bloke. Which is an historically-referenced way of saying that while the Actyon […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Mercedes-Benz C250 CDI

With the facelift of the current W204 iteration of the C-class, Mercedes-Benz has taken what was already a very good car and simply made it better. This sounds like a fairly sensible thing to do with a new model, but you would be surprised how many times it doesn’t work that way. Not with the […]

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ROAD TEST: Hyundai iLoad

Let’s get the most annoying aspect of the Hyundai iLoad out of the way first – the key. The key for the iLoad isn’t so much of a problem in itself – after all it is a key, it does what keys are supposed to do; start the vehicle. Rather it is the positioning of […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: BMW 535d

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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ROAD TEST: BMW 330d

BMW recently unveiled a lavish facelift for the cars in the 3-series range that feature only two doors – the coupe and convertible, that is. Actually, scratch that, they played about a bit with the bumpers and tweaked a few other bits that you won’t notice and that’s pretty much it for the visual changes […]

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ROAD TEST: Isuzu D-Max

So let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first: the Isuzu D-Max is the same ute that we have known and loved here in New Zealand as the Holden Rodeo. And then as the Holden Colorado. The whole Rodeo/D-Max thing was a collaboration between Holden and Isuzu, until a few years ago when […]

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ROAD TEST: Holden Cruze CDX diesel

Good news for everyone out there who looked at the top-spec Cruze CDX, admired the leather interior, high level of specification and chrome bits, but thought “Hmm… I just wish it was a bit noisier…” Well now it is, because Holden has made the CDX available with the 2-litre common-rail diesel engine, previously only available […]

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