OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Jaguar XF 2.0i4 It’s an XF, Jim, but not as we know it… The XF gets a boost from Ford. An EcoBoost, that is, as the XF becomes the latest car to appear on our shores with Ford’s fantastic 2.0-litre four-cylinder giant killer under its bonnet. Although Jaguar would prefer it if […]
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New engines, improved interiors and a transmission we have been waiting for (in a Land Rover, at least) were the big news from a low-key Land Rover launch today. The Freelander gets a brilliant petrol engine that will seem strangely familiar and the Discovery gets a brilliant 8-speed auto transmission. We spent a day sampling […]
“Smarter, Safer, Further” is the way Subaru NZ are describing the new Forester in their marketing, even going as far to say “It can if you can”. We travel to a summery (but still rather breezy) Queenstown to see if it can… What is it? An SUV, okay? It’s DEFINITELY an SUV and if you […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: BMW M6 BMW’s M cars are, as a rule, rather special. Despite the company’s slightly confused attempt to add SUVs to the M line up, the ‘proper’ M cars (the ones with a single number after the M… or in the case of the 1M, before…) are still very much the heroes […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Renault Megane RS265 The Renault Megane RS265 is one of the hottest Hot Hatches currently available in the New Zealand market. We take one fresh off the Targa for a thrash. Well, what the hell did you expect us to do with it? Although recently all Renault has seemed to be capable […]
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 […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Mitsubishi Starion It is arguably the car that started the avalanche of RWD Japanese GTs in the 1980s and remains one of the more enigmatic today. The Mitsubishi Starion may have a funny name, but it has passed into the realms of desirable classic remarkably easily. We take one for a blast! […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Audi A4 Avant 1.8T FSI The Audi A4 gets a slight facelift and a new engine, but is this enough to take on a startlingly good new BMW 3 Series? Well, in the looks department, the sexiest Euro-wagon in the business has it sewn up, but the rest… after a week with […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Ford Falcon XT EcoBoost A four-cylinder Falcon?! The SHOCK! The HORROR! It’s just NOT RIGHT! It simply CAN’T BE TRUE! It must be a TERRIBLE CAR… actually, it’s not. It’s a very impressive car indeed. We know, because we have driven one extensively… Opinions on the idea of a four-cylinder Falcon tend […]
There is much argument over what car could truly be considered King of the Hot Hatch genre, but you would have to be extraordinarily one-eyed – or maybe a bit stupid – if you didn’t at least concede that it most likely comes down to a choice between to two originators of the class – […]
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