OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Lexus LS 600hL It’s massive, impossibly quiet and unsettlingly brown and we here at OVERSTEER love it to bits; the Lexus LS 600hL is the biggest Lexus on the block and it just keeps getting quieter and more high-tech. But has a recent infusion of bling hurt it at all? We take […]
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OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Land Rover Freelander Si4 It’s been around for a while now and while some of the shine has undoubtedly come off, the Land Rover Freelander has had an update that should more then help to keep it relevant. We check it out. The Land Rover Freelander has just become the latest vehicle […]
Bad news for Kiwi Daihatsu fans (and that includes OVERSTEER’s very own Allan Dick…) today, when Toyota New Zealand announced that it was discontinuing the brand in New Zealand. According to TNZ’s General Manager of sales and operations, Steve Prangnell, the company is “regretfully unable to secure Daihatsu products that comply with future regulatory standards […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Hyundai i40 Elite sedan We here are OVERSTEER are more than familiar with the Hyundai i40 in its wagon form, so what does the sedan version bring to the party? Well, more of the same, really. The introduction of the i40 sedan functions more as giving Hyundai a diesel entrant into the […]
In October last year we bought you the First Drive of the new mega-hot hatch from BMW, the M135i. That was in Australia. Now we are proud to bring you the very first drive of the M135i on New Zealand soil. OVERSTEER has driven the car more than 1,500km from Auckland to Queenstown over two […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Subaru Impreza WRX Crouching Tiger Edition While the new Impreza is upon us there is a conspicuous absence of a WRX version – this is because there will be no more Impreza WRX’s. Instead, the WRX badge is being spun off as a separate model – much like Nissan did with the […]
Got a lazy half a mil lying about? Better start checking down the side of the couch then, because Mercedes-Benz has just announced the price of the Black Series version of the SLS AMG Coupe. NZ$528,150 will get your necessarily narrow buttocks wedged into the SLS Black Series’ racing seat and it will no doubt […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series LX double cab It is big, it is square and it is white. It is not a fridge, although if it had one, that is the only thing that would make it cooler. It is the Land Cruiser 70 Series and it it still as awesome as […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Porsche 911 Carrera 4S While the overall shape hasn’t exactly evolved a lot over 50 years, the bits stuffed underneath the familiar shape have got better and better. And the familiar shape has, of course, had to grow to fit more bits and pieces jammed into it. This means the 911 is […]
The Toyota RAV4 has come a long way since its inception as the first of the small crossover SUVs based on a car platform – the Corolla to be exact. Many followed and the market for such vehicles exploded globally, but particularly here in New Zealand. The RAV4’s success was almost assured. Now Toyota launches […]
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