Tiny A-segment SUVs are the thing every manufacturer wants to have right now, with the explosion in interest in SUV generally, but the smaller end in particular. So it makes sense that the most SUV-ish car maker on the planet would want to get in on that action. We head over to the USA for […]
Category: First Drives
Now, we here at OVERSTEER love it when car manufacturers come over all silly and adventurous and release a production car that looks like it should be a concept. It doesn’t always work (think Pontiac Aztek, although Walter White briefly made it cool…), but when it does, it is brilliant (Fiat Multipla, or more recently, […]
Mid-size cars are starting to suffer the same fate as their larger cousins at the moment – they are not selling in anywhere the numbers they used to. Why? Three letters – SUV. People are deserting traditional family-sized sedans in favour of the more practical SUV segment. But there is still a decent amount of life […]
Much like the Skoda Octavia Scout that was launched only a short while before it, the Subaru Outback could always easily have been mistaken for a Legacy wagon with a jacked up ride and added plastic. Except now two things make that not the case – firstly, there will no longer be a Legacy wagon […]
On the surface the Skoda Octavia Scout could be just an Octavia wagon with added plastic bits, but in reality it is more than that. But even if it wasn’t, the Octavia is one of our favourite cars here at OVERSTEER (see here, here and here for proof of that…), so that would still make […]
The Holden Colorado wasn’t quite up to what we now expect from a new ute when it first came out, so not even a year and a half later the first update came out which improved things vastly. Now there is a new 2015 model that gains a few more tweaks. We head over to […]
Citroen is doing things a bit differently with the launch of the C4 Picasso in New Zealand – rather than having a traditional media launch where journalists drive the car and get all the relevant information, the company has simply sent the info to us and booked in test drives in the New Year. So we […]
It’s a Mini Jim, but not as we know it. Well, actually, it kind of is. But then it also kind of isn’t. The Mini 5-door hatch treads the narrow ground between the 3-door hatch, the 5-door Countryman SUV and the even intrudes slightly on the Clubman’s territory by being similarly a-bit-longer and sort-of more spacious […]
The replacement for the Peugeot 308 was released in Europe last year and is also called the Peugeot 308. This blatant break with naming tradition is all something to do with the French company’s new naming convention that is quite complicated and has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that Peugeot was running out […]
The 508 has been around since 2010, when it was introduced to replace both the smaller 407 and the larger 607 and has struggled to make much of an impact in the local medium sedan/wagon segment. This is disappointing – as it is a very good car that deserves better – and yet not unexpected, as […]
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