New Cars Quick Drives

QUICK DRIVE: Toyota 86RC

The Toyota 86 has been widely praised as one of the best Bang-For-Your-Buck packages out there and rightly so – there is little that possesses such a purity of handling for less than six figures and even less that looks as purposeful doing it. But now Toyota has raised the stakes even further by releasing […]

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ROAD TEST: Fiat 500 Pop

I remember when the “new” Fiat 500 first came out. I loved the way it looked, but I always felt strangely unsatisfied by the way it drove. In fact, the same could be said of most small Italian cars. I just couldn’t understand why they didn’t have the same flair and vigour of larger Italian […]

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ROAD TEST: Citroen DS3 Sport Cabrio

Now, it is no secret that we here at OVERSTEER are fans of the Citroen DS3 Sport hatch. After all, you only have to read our original road test of the automatic version to see evidence of that. That’s right, it was automatic and ONLY FOUR SPEEDS, yet we still fell in love with it. […]

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ROAD TEST: Peugeot 3008 HY4

Hybrids. They’re the future, buddy. Except they’re not. A feel-good stop-gap between internal combustion and true emission-free motoring, to be sure, but hardly the long-term future. But as a short-term solution, the diesel-hybrid goodness of the Peugeot 3008 HY4 is about as good – and certainly as quirky – as they come. Forget all this […]

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Coming soon!

We are going to try something new very shortly – Live Road Tests! Well… when we say “Live” we actually mean a Road Test that we update daily as we actually have the car – not a test that comes days, weeks or even months (if we’ve been particularly lazy…) after we have had it. […]

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FIRST DRIVE: Forza Motorsport 5

Sometime OVERSTEER contributor Karl Burnett was recently lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the upcoming awesomeness that is Forza Motorsport 5 on the Xbox One for NZGamer.com and they were kind enough to let us share his conclusions here! Thanks guys! I’ve been a fan of Forza Motorsport since the game’s initial release […]

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ROAD TEST: Mercedes-Benz E400 Estate

The Mercedes Benz E-Class has always had a slightly hard road to travel, what with having to cary out multiple duties as a taxi, luxury express and see-you-out car, depending on its market, spec level and perceived place in things in the country it is sold in. While that may seem to make it a […]

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ROAD TEST: Peugeot 208 GTi

Let’s be honest here; since the original genre-defining 205 GTi, most of the Peugeots that have worn the hallowed Hot Hatch GTi badge have fallen well short of deserving it. That is not to say that Peugeot haven’t built cars worthy of wearing the GTi badge, because they most certainly have – the 306 S16 […]

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ROAD TEST: Holden Commodore SS V-Series Redline

Bogan-tastic! With the release of a new Commodore comes the inevitable V8-powered SS version! And with the addition of the FE3 sports suspension-equipped Redline model to the permanent line up, things would appear to be very promising indeed for Aussie performance fans. Except… they have made it VERY quiet indeed. With the bogan in us […]

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