The second episode of the NZ Motoring Podcast is now available to download or stream! In this episode our good mate Cameron Officer (ex-editor TopGear NZ) joins OVERSTEER’s Damien O’Carroll and David Linklater to get nerdy over James Bond cars (and we get VERY nerdy!), listen to David go on about Porsches (again) and discuss the […]
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Like us here at OVERSTEER, they like to mix the new with the… less new at XCAR, and this year they had a whole host of awesome classics to play with. Which oldie was more golden than the rest?
Pocket Rockets – well all love tiny cars that go stupidly fast – here the lads from XCAR pick their favourite of the year.
Between now and the New Year XCAR will be releasing a series of “awards” videos capturing the best of the year! The first of these is the award is for Best Sound of the year, a critical part of what makes a car – particularly a performance car – appealing. We will have a couple of […]
Drew from XCAR gets his hands on the remarkable BRP Can-Am Maverick and takes the wild little beast for a solid blast in a paddock and on an off-road course. He also rolls it and learns a lesson… But to hell with that – we want one for Christmas now and nothing else will do. Plus […]
We stay with the mighty TraNZams for this week’s BLAST which comes from Ruapuna and features Shane Drake in the Mark Petch run Activator Corvette. Thanks as always to Terry Marshall!
In their latest video Drew from XCAR takes a look at Aston Martin, including the DB5 and the Centenary Vanquish, as well as a quick history of the legendary company. The Aston Martin DB5 is probably one of the most famous car in the world. Drew takes a look at how Aston Martin got to the […]
PHOTO: Mazda New Zealand’s Maria Tsao accepts the NZCOTY trophy The Mazda3 was named as the New Zealand Car of the Year at an event hosted by the AA and the NZ Motoring Writers’ Guild at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre today. The compact car beat the nine other finalists to take the ultimate award which included […]
We head to the legendary Wellington street race in 1996 for this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST, where Wayne Huxford’s mighty Morand Chevrolet-powered Capri threads its way through the armco-lined circuit. As always, thanks heaps to birthday-boy Terry Marshall for the fantastic pic!
This video has quickly spread over the interweb, but it is worth several repeat viewings! A quick montage of scenes from a forthcoming film documenting the restoration of the Fiat S76, otherwise known as The Beast of Turin, a legendary former land speed record holder. The short video culminates in the firing up of The […]
