New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Skoda Fabia

The new Skoda Fabia landed in New Zealand a month or so back and instantly impressed us with its looks, quality and eager engines. Now we get to spend a week in the top-of-the-range 81kW DSG car. At $24,990 the top Fabia gets uncomfortably close to the VW Polo (the GTi variant we had justlast week…), […]

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Motorsport News

Paddon dominates final day of Rally Oz

Kiwi Hayden Paddon and his equally-Kiwi co-driver John Kennard came back from their poor start to Rally Oz to utterly dominate the WRC2 class of the final day of Rally Australia to win all six stages in the category. And even show a few of the WRC boys how it is done. Their outright speed […]

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Motorsport News

Paddon moves through WRC2 field in Oz

With his Skoda Fabia rally car repaired following a rough start to Rally Australia, Hayden Paddon attacked today’s six competitive stages to take four WRC2 category stage victories and set times inside the top ten of the World Rally Championship (WRC) field. After the electrical issues which prevented Paddon and co-driver John Kennard from making […]

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