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ROAD TEST: Subaru WRX manual

Like most living things, cars also grow up. Some “evolve”, some “mature” and some just get old and useless. The Subaru WRX has grown up a lot with its latest incarnation and the best word to use would probably be “mature”. But don’t take that to mean it has come over all serious and sober […]

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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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ROAD TEST: Holden Trax LTZ

Holden is one of the early entrants into the new “Baby SUV” segment that will shortly become more populated as other manufacturer’s clamour to turn their compact cars into jacked-up faux off roaders (usually with virtually no off road ability) and the Trax is that entrant. Based on the Barina, the Trax is small but […]

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ROAD TEST: Skoda Octavia RS wagon

Quite frankly, ever since Skoda New Zealand launched the new Octavia here, this is the version we have been hanging out for. The Octavia RS has always been a brilliant steer and we had no doubt this one would continue that tradition, especially when we found out it would have the same engine as the […]

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Holden Volt: the final update

We have now finished our time with the Holden Volt, so it is time for a wrap up of our final thoughts on it. The first thing you notice when you hop back into an “ordinary” car after just driving a Volt for almost a month is how smooth the Volt actually is. With no […]

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ROAD TEST: Jeep Grand Cherokee CRD Limited

The Grand Cherokee has always been one of those vehicles that was just plain likeable, even when it was a poorly built, soggy, big American cruiser. Now it is much more than that. Much, much more. One of our favourites – aside from the monstrous SRT8 version – has always been the brawny diesel-engined variants. […]

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