To celebrate the fact that Easter 2008 was possibly the best weekend of Oversteer’s life, we present the article written after driving an elderly Cadillac down to Wellington to rock out for the long weekend at ROCK2WGTN! Although the article seems rather complimentary to the Cadillac, that was largely due to the fact that the […]
Category: New Cars
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Honda CR-Z Honda has looked back to its past for the new CR-Z, resurrecting the spirit of the classic CR-X for what could potentially be the most exciting Honda in years. Hondas used to be exciting. Even the boring ones like the Civic. Honda gave us VTEC engines that revved up to […]
Let’s face it, as awesome as television is movies are even better. Bigger screens, bigger budgets and more explosions, movies are just great. So with that in mind we go one better than last week’s TV car Top Ten and bring you the Ten Best Movie Cars EVER! 10. Eleanor ― “Gone in 60 Seconds” […]
The new F30 BMW 3 Series is bigger, faster and better looking than the old E90, but is it better? We head to a wet and windy Taupo for the New Zealand launch to find out. What is it? The Ultimate Driving Machine again, apparently. The “Joy” line has been quietly dropped from BMW’s marketing […]
Television has provided us with some great moments; ALF pretending to be Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise going mental on Oprah, the Star Wars Christmas Special and that episode of Blackadder with Tom Baker in it. So to celebrate how awesome TV is, here are the ten best cars to ever appear in a television series… […]
A hybrid you could actually like? Sounds impossible, but Toyota may well have managed it with its new compact hybrid, the Prius C; a new entry in the Prius family and Toyota’s first attempt to expand the Prius name into a family rather than a single model. What is it? Basically a smaller Prius that […]
Saying that the new SsangYong Actyon Sports is a vast visual improvement over the old model is an understatement on par with Neville Chamberlin deciding that that chap with the funny moustache in charge of Germany in 1938 wasn’t actually that bad a bloke. Which is an historically-referenced way of saying that while the Actyon […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari The first thing everybody notices are the Ferrari badges. Then they ask what the hell it is… We attempt to explain the Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari. It would be easy to write the rather awkwardly named Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari off as a cheap and nasty attempt by […]
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, […]
Just a Camry? That’s never actually been a bad thing… We go to the launch of the new Toyota Camry to see what exactly IS new. What is it? An all new Camry, baby! Well… kind of. Actually, make that “mostly”… While the new 7th generation Camry may sit on the previous car’s platform, it […]
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