Congratulations to Stephen Gyde and Ben Keng on winning our BMW Ultimate Drive Day competition. Stephen and Ben (plus their guests, Stephen’s father Murray and Ben’s wife Audrey) enjoyed an afternoon of driving a wide range of BMWs across three modules – track, road and off-road. The weather was kind and a good day was […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Just the thing for a lazy Easter weekend – watch Craig Baird set the lap record – 1 minute 41.9 seconds – at the opening of the awesome Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell. Baird is driving a McLaren MP4-12C purchased by Highlands’ owner, Tony Quinn, specially to set the first lap record. The whole thing […]
Subaru unveiled a stunning concept version of the new WRX at the New York motor show today, then went on to release a comedy press release that basically just describes the car. No word on production-readiness, power, engines or anything really. It just tells us that the production version won’t really look anything like this, […]
Ford of India has landed itself in some hot water following a series of leaked potential print ads touting the impressive cargo-carrying capacity of its Figo hatchback. The three print ads feature bound and gagged people stuffed into the boot of the Figo with a tag line that says “Leave your troubles behind”. The first […]
Following on from Elon Musk’s habit of suing anyone who criticises a Tesla, the ups and downs of building bespoke electric/hybrid cars in the US continue with the surprise resignation of Henrik Fisker from the company he founded; Fisker Automotive, makers of the luxury Fisker Karma. While Fisker has sold 1,800 examples of its luxurious […]
The stunning Pininfarina Sergio Concept that was revealed at the Geneva show as a tribute to legendary designer and former chairman of the Italian design company – Sergio Pininfarina, who passed away last year – may now actually be heading for production. Albeit in VERY limited numbers. The Sergio is based on a Ferrari 458 […]
To mark the start of deliveries of the 12C Spider in North America, McLaren Automotive has released a pointless, contrived, silly and utterly awesome new short film. Shot at the notoriously treacherous Loveland Pass in Colorado, the 12C Spider navigates the tricky, snow-covered route “racing” against professional snowboarder Chanelle Sladics. The quotation marks around “racing” […]
Bentley will mark the tenth anniversary of its historic Le Mans one-two victory at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed by unleash some of its fastest and most powerful cars. The flying Bentleys include the 460kW and 325 km/h Continental GT Speed Convertible and two of 2003 Le Mans-winning Speed 8 race cars. Instantly recognisable […]
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