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The Good Oil: a paper Juke and a looong ute!

Every week Damien does The Good Oil column for the NZ Herald’s DRIVEN magazine – here are a few highlights from the latest one, with a link to the entire thing!   Birthday card (well, paper…) The traditional 5th birthday party involves junk food, much running around and cool toys. Nissan decided to do something a […]

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Finally! A new Podcast episode!

Yes, we realise it has been quite a while, but the 11th and latest episode of the NZ Motoring Podcast is available now! In it Damien and David discuss the Top Ten cars eligible for the NZ Motoring Writers’ Guild/AA Car of the Year award and 12-cylinder cars – all from inside a Bentley Continental GT […]

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The Good Oil: The Perfect Car

Every week Damien does The Good Oil column for the NZ Herald’s DRIVEN magazine – here are a few highlights from the latest one, with a link to the entire thing! This is the PERFECT car … apparently A professor of psychology at the Scotland’s Stirling University, Peter Hancock, thinks this is the perfect car. He […]

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New Cars News

Lotus 3-Eleven breaks cover. Almost breaks 7 minutes…

The fantastically angry-looking little Lotus 3-Eleven would seem to be every bit as fast as its looks suggest following its first public outing at a two-week test session during the industry pool test weeks at the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit, in which over 2,000kms were covered as part of the car’s test and development programme. Jean-Marc Gales, Chief […]

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The Automotive Industry and Technology

Here is a new video that poses some very interesting questions – will the car manufacturers become merely “contract manufacturers” building different shells that will be filled with technology from tech companies like Google? It is a question that the Financial Times asks in this short video, but don’t imagine that the manufacturers (who have spent […]

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New Cars

Wanna buy an X-Bow?

Well, now you can! The little mental track day car from KTM has evolved (somewhat) into a (slightly) more usable road car with the appearance of the GT (basically an X-Bow with a windscreen) a few years back, and now they are available here in New Zealand! To be honest, it looks like they have […]

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Turtle power!

What with Michael Bay’s latest cinematic equivalent of a briskly-delivered knee to the soft dangly bits of precious childhood memories currently violating everything that was cool about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, here is a chance to own a proper piece of Mutant Turtle coolness. Not actually “Teenage” Mutant Ninja Turtles, mind you, but still far better […]

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Episode 2 of the NZ Motoring Podcast is here!

The second episode of the NZ Motoring Podcast is now available to download or stream! In this episode our good mate Cameron Officer (ex-editor TopGear NZ) joins OVERSTEER’s Damien O’Carroll and David Linklater to get nerdy over James Bond cars (and we get VERY nerdy!), listen to David go on about Porsches (again) and discuss the […]

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