New Cars Road Tests

PHOTO GALLERY ROAD TEST: Subaru WRX STi

Okay, here it is – our latest Photo Gallery Road Test, this time of the Subaru WRX STi! Which may be slightly confusing because our last one was of a Subaru WRX… Actually, this one is of the hotter, nastier (in a good way) WRX STi, but there is still room for confusion. So why have […]

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New Cars Road Tests

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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New Cars Random Stuff!

Proof of how slow we are…

Here is the complete, unedited footage of our run up the Leadfoot Ranch driveway. As you will no doubt notice, the GPS is pretty dodgy at times, especially going through the trees at the top! Not exactly a record-setting time – one minute and ten seconds, in case you were wondering – but MASSIVE fun!

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First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Subaru WRX

The WRX has always had the strong whiff of Boy Racer around it, much to Subaru’s displeasure. Sure, no company really minds if complete cocks buy their cars – it means they are selling cars, after all – but pouring billions of dollars into development, winning numerous rally championships and other motorsport accolades and generally […]

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New Cars News

End of the line for Impreza WRX. Soon.

Subaru New Zealand has announced it will mark the end of the line for the current WRX with not one, but two new special editions. The first is the final run of cars in the batches of powered-up specials it has been doing for the last year and a half, starting with the black Ace […]

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News

Subaru shows WRX concept, tells us nothing about it…

Subaru unveiled a stunning concept version of the new WRX at the New York motor show today, then went on to release a comedy press release that basically just describes the car. No word on production-readiness, power, engines or anything really. It just tells us that the production version won’t really look anything like this, […]

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New Cars Top Ten

Top Ten Over-rated Cars

Let me get this straight first; almost every single car in this list IS actually awesome. Hell, I’ve personally owned three of them! (No, I am not telling you which three…) Yet none of them really deserve the blind reverence that has be lavished upon them since their launch. Especially the Hummer, which is just […]

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