Volkswagen gives us our best look yet at its new Global Rallycross (GRC) challenger, the GRC Beetle. Okay, we have seen pics, but we haven’t seen (or heard) the thing in all its rubber-melting action until now. Here driver (and host of TopGear USA) Tanner Foust removes some rubber from the GRC Beetle’s tyres and delivers a […]
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At a ceremony held at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre last night the AA and New Zealand Motoring Writers’ Guild announced the New Zealand Car of the Year was the Volkswagen Golf. The Golf beat out nine other finalists to take the crown including the Subaru BRZ, the sister car to 2012’s Car of the Year, […]
The Top Ten finalists for the overall AA/NZ Motoring Writers’ Guild New Zealand New Zealand Car of the Year have been announced. They are, in no particular order: Subaru BRZ, Ford Kuga, Lexus IS, Holden Volt, Hyundai Santa Fe, Volkswagen Golf, Subaru Forester, Holden Commodore VF, Mazda6 and Volvo V40. The finalists will now be voted on by members of the NZ Motoring Writers’ […]
Feast your eyes on this thoroughly magnificent video that is pretty much just Seb-2 and his co-driver Julien Ingrassia in slow motion. Who is Seb-2? Sebastien Ogier, of course, with Sebastien Loeb being Seb-1, while Sebastian Vettel is commonly referred to as “That annoying little German twat” and Sebastien Bordais is just “who?”
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Volkswagen Polo R-Line We here at OVERSTEER are unashamed fans of Volkswagen’s littlest local offering, the Polo. It has all the charm of cheerful puppy, but can turn savage when pointed at a corner. Savage in a good way, that is, not in “a Kia Rio on Eco-tyres in the wet” kind […]
The Volkswagen Golf has long been the five-door hatch benchmark and, as such, played in the upper-levels of the price range for the segment. But now the Golf goes on the attack with drastically reduced prices and increased spec. We spend a day thrashing a couple of them at the Golf 7 launch. What is […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Volkswagen Beetle The second incarnation of the new version of a car originally conceived by a genocidal maniac and “designed” by a bloke who actually nicked the design off a another company is finally here. That’s right – the original Nazi fun-wagon is back! We take a Beetle for a blast! While […]
The Volkswagen Amarok has been around for a couple of years now, but that hasn’t dulled the impact of just how damn good it is. It came in to the ute segment with a bang and drastically shook up the concept of just what it was we expected from our workhorses. They no longer had […]
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