First Drives New Cars

FIRST LOCAL DRIVE: BMW M135i

In October last year we bought you the First Drive of the new mega-hot hatch from BMW, the M135i. That was in Australia. Now we are proud to bring you the very first drive of the M135i on New Zealand soil. OVERSTEER has driven the car more than 1,500km from Auckland to Queenstown over two […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: BMW M135i

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 […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: BMW 1 Series M Coupe

  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 […]

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