First Drives New Cars

FIRST DRIVE: Jeep Renegade

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 […]

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XCAR on the Discovery Sport

A few days back we bought you a teaser video with an excerpt from the next episode of the NZ Motoring Podcast (due very shortly!) where David Linklater shares his experiences on the international launch of the Land Rover Discovery in Iceland. Well, it seems our friends from XCAR were there too, so here is their […]

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Land Rover Discovery Sport in Iceland

The latest episode of the NZ MOTORING PODCAST will be out shortly and in it David Linklater talks about his recent trip to Iceland to drive the new Land Rover Discovery Sport on its international launch. Today we bring you a quick video of footage from the launch and some of David’s thoughts as a […]

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FIRST DRIVE: Citroen C4 Cactus

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, […]

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FIRST DRIVE: Hyundai Sonata

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 […]

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FIRST DRIVE: Subaru Outback

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 […]

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FIRST DRIVE: Skoda Octavia Scout

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 […]

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FIRST LOOK: Citroen C4 Picasso

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 […]

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FIRST DRIVE: Mini 5-door hatch

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 […]

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