New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Audi A4 Avant 1.8T FSI

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 […]

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New Cars Quick Drives

QUICK DRIVE: Toyota Avensis Wagon

OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Toyota Avensis Wagon There hasn’t been a Camry wagon for some time now; the Avensis is the car that has filled that gap, but does it deserve to be as relatively anonymous as it is? We take a quick look and decide. The Toyota Avensis is essentially what passes for a Camry wagon these […]

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Hyundai i40 Wagon

Is 2012 going to be Hyundai’s year? The Korean manufacturer’s New Zealand distributor is certainly planning for that. And if the i40 wagon is anything to go by, it is mighty hard to disagree with them. What is it? A wagon version of Hyundai’s current mid-size entrant the i45, right? Well… not really. You see, […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Skoda Superb Combi

The Skoda Superb Combi 118 has got a lot of very good things going for it. The vast amounts of room it boasts inside, for starters. Then there are the obvious facts that it’s handsome, well loaded with standard kit, extremely sharply priced, has an extraordinarily good ride, decent handling, remarkable power from a seemingly […]

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