New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Skoda Superb Combi

The Skoda Superb Combi 118 has got a lot of very good things going for it. The vast amounts of room it boasts inside, for starters. Then there are the obvious facts that it’s handsome, well loaded with standard kit, extremely sharply priced, has an extraordinarily good ride, decent handling, remarkable power from a seemingly […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Kia Cerato Hatch

You may well think that the most significant thing about the Kia Cerato hatch is the fact that it is, well, a hatch. But you would, in fact, be wrong. You see, while the arrival of a hatch body style in the Cerato family is extremely significant to Kia here in New Zealand, where small […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Toyota Blade Master

The formula of taking a big engine and jamming it into a small car is a time-honoured way of getting performance, leading to the creation of that hallowed class of pocket-sized performance cars, the Hot Hatch. The Toyota Blade Master is, on paper, a true proponent of the hot hatch ethos; an unnecessarily large (3.5-litre) […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: Honda Insight

Honda has chosen to market the Insight in New Zealand as a small 5-door hatchback that just happens to be a hybrid, rather than just focus on the fact that it is a hybrid, a-la Prius. This may well prove to be a very smart strategy from Honda New Zealand, but probably not for the […]

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Other Games

REVIEW: Blood Stone 007 (Xbox 360)

As a massive James Bond fan it pains me to say this, but the latest 007 game to appear on the next-gen consoles – Blood Stone 007 – just isn’t very good… Vastly derivative and plagued with niggling annoyances, Blood Stone 007 is particularly frustrating simply because it could have been so good. The most […]

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Racing Games

REVIEW: Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)

So, after a massive five year wait, Gran Turismo 5 is finally here. Originally slated to be one of the PS3’s launch titles, GT5 has been delayed constantly to the point where it was in danger of becoming irrelevant in the face of ever-improving competing racing games. But now it is finally here, and the […]

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Other Games

REVIEW: Call Of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360)

I can get this review of Call Of Duty: Black Ops out of the way remarkably quickly. With two words as a matter of fact: Massively Disappointing. COD: Modern Warfare, World At War and Modern Warfare 2 were awesome games, Black Ops isn’t. Simple as that. Even ignoring the slightly retarded storyline, mental AI and […]

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