Traditionally – well, in recent history, at least – small, sporty, two-door cars have been mainly bought by people over 40, with at least half of them being of the female persuasion. That was, of course, until the Toyota 86 came along and dared to attract a whole bunch of young males to a market […]
Tag: Turbo
The Subaru Legacy turbo wagon has been something of a performance icon in New Zealand since they poured into the country in their thousands back in the Japanese imports days of the early ’90s. Since then the used imports have dried up and Subaru have moved out of their “enthusiast” niche in a concerted effort […]
The Mercedes-Benz E 63S AMG is an utter beast and it makes the kind of colossal noise that leaves you in no doubt of that whatsoever. To try and capture than noise, we attached a GoPro down by the exhaust and took it for a blast on a country road. This didn’t work, as the […]
The Mercedes Benz E-Class has always had a slightly hard road to travel, what with having to cary out multiple duties as a taxi, luxury express and see-you-out car, depending on its market, spec level and perceived place in things in the country it is sold in. While that may seem to make it a […]
In this day and age of political correctness and bland homogenisation it is vastly pleasing to know that there is a car manufacturer like Citroen that is still willing to make utterly baffling cars that make no sense, look weird and don’t have a single feature that approaches “sensible” in any way. Or, at least […]
With 1,800kW of power and roughly 6,800Nm of torque the Banks Super-Turbo Freightliner is a thing of mechanical beauty. And terror. Sheer, sphincter-clenching terror. With a supercharger, a turbocharger, methanol-injection and Hollywood stuntman (read: insane, crazy person with no fear who will do anything) Mike Ryan driving it, there is clearly no more insane way […]
Take one already exceptionally good car and throw a whole lot of extras at it for surprisingly little money and you should sell a bunch more of them. At least, that seems to be how it works for BMW these days. And who is going to argue with them, because in addition to a very […]
Welcome to the first-ever, utterly historic OVERSTEER 3D road test! That’s right, a road test in 3D! Why? Umm… well, there’s this app you see and we really wanted to try it out… Aw, hell, it doesn’t matter why – just enjoy the exciting 3D-iness! We were going to claim it was the first-ever 3D […]
Once upon a time, the idea of a “sporty” SUV would have been laughable. The concept of a sports car and a SUV were about as diametrically opposed as it was possible to get in the world of cars, so the idea of combining the properties of the two would have simply been ridiculous and […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Subaru Impreza WRX Crouching Tiger Edition While the new Impreza is upon us there is a conspicuous absence of a WRX version – this is because there will be no more Impreza WRX’s. Instead, the WRX badge is being spun off as a separate model – much like Nissan did with the […]
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