Audi seems to have gone a bit Hatch Mental of late as it races to out-do BMW in the competition to create more (and more bizarre) new segments to sell increasingly niche versions of their vehicles in. As well as releasing a relatively straightforward (perhaps a little too straightforward…) new entry into the premium five-door […]
Category: New Cars
I have a bit of a soft-spot for the Toyota Highlander. I always though it handled quite well for such a comfortable big SUV, the engine had a nice snarl to it and always had a decent amount of grunt where ever you needed it, it was comfortable, well-built and handsome. Oh, and there was […]
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 […]
You may well think that the most significant thing about the Kia Cerato hatch is the fact that it is, well, a hatch. But you would, in fact, be wrong. You see, while the arrival of a hatch body style in the Cerato family is extremely significant to Kia here in New Zealand, where small […]
The formula of taking a big engine and jamming it into a small car is a time-honoured way of getting performance, leading to the creation of that hallowed class of pocket-sized performance cars, the Hot Hatch. The Toyota Blade Master is, on paper, a true proponent of the hot hatch ethos; an unnecessarily large (3.5-litre) […]
Honda has chosen to market the Insight in New Zealand as a small 5-door hatchback that just happens to be a hybrid, rather than just focus on the fact that it is a hybrid, a-la Prius. This may well prove to be a very smart strategy from Honda New Zealand, but probably not for the […]
Loved the uber-sexy Shinari concept shown by Mazda a few months ago? Yeah, us too… Say something very rude when you found out it would never make production? Yeah, us too… But the sexy Shinari was always more of an indication for the future of Mazda design than an actual production possibility, and now Mazda […]
The BMW 5-series has become the first car in the history of the New Zealand Motoring Writers’ Guild Car of the Year Award to lift the top prize three times by taking victory yet again. Presenting the Peter Greenslade Trophy – named after the late motoring editor of The Press in Christchurch, who was one […]
On paper, the Citroen DS3 DStyle doesn’t sound all that special. Oh, sure, it looks great, with its consciously fashionable, ever-so-slightly purposely over-designed styling, it is a truly attractive and, more importantly, interesting entrant into the premium supermini segment. But when you start looking at the meat of the spec-sheet – the engine and transmission […]
Okay, this is confusing, so pay attention! Group Lotus and Genii Capital, who now own the majority of the Renault F1 team, have joined forces to form the Lotus Renault GP Formula 1 Team. Got that? Good. But, what’s that I hear you say? “What in the name of Sweet Dancing Jesus are you talking […]
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