Making Tracks – Alltracks in fact
Volkswagen Alltrack review New Zealand With the clocks going back an hour and temperatures dropping a few degrees it’s hard not to notice that Winter is in its way. Now normally this would be a great excuse to stock up on your favorite Merlot and start hunting down comfort foods and soups. The TV becomes […]
Trifecta factor – McLaren 570S
McLaren 570S review New Zealand A Trifecta is a term that would be known to anyone that has been around a horse racing betting office. It’s a parimutuel bet where the punter (the person laying the bet) predicts the placing on three horses in a race and bets accordingly. As the odds are high the […]
Tanner Foust likes my interview
I received an email from Tanner Foust (Top Gear USA) this morning – it reads… ‘I apologize if i didn’t respond to this earlier but thank you! The interview looks great and it was great to meet you! Hope to see you next year, tanner’ I interviewed him while he was in NZ taking part […]
Holy Moly – A Ferrari Experience
Ferrari at Bathurst 12 hour The Ferrari Australasia family invited me to spend four days with them in Bathurst sampling their cars, their racing team and their overwhelming hospitality; I have now started my adoption process. We arrived early; actually VERY early; at the Elizabeth Street Showroom in Sydney for vehicle allocation and departure to […]
A? Or should I say AY? Audi A4
Audi A4 review New Zealand I’m not a big lover of surprises, I don’t ‘hate’ them (which is the way I thought about starting this off) but over the years I have realized that most surprises air towards the negative. This doesn’t make me a pessimist, I’m more of a realist – the glass may […]
Bruce Wayne wears Valcona – Audi RS7
Audi RS7 review New Zealand Bruce Wayne is a millionaire businessman that lives in a mansion on the outskirts of Gotham City. He has a butler that tends to his every wish, he is always well garbed, he is smart, smooth and has a bit of a wit about him. Of course we all know […]
Track day with the new Porsche 911
New Zealand track day with Porsche The 911 first rolled off the production line in 1963. Originally numbered 901 (but had to change do to another car brand laying claim to having a zero in its name) it was a more powerful replacement to the 356. This 2+2 sports car had a 1991cc flat 6 […]
Took the new Mustang 5.0 out to the country – this is how it went…
Ford Mustang in New Zealand Long snout, heavy engine and loads of fun to drive, for a moment I thought I was back behind the wheel of my old Capri – no not the nasty ‘not fit to use its name’ 2 seater – the proper Ford Capri, icon of the late 70’s and early […]
Some Track time with Audi sport
Then there are those days when you get invited to potter around Hampton Downs Racetrack in a variety of high performance Audi’s. We had an RS6 & 7, an R8 and an S8. The day consisted of Slaloms, wet braking and then laps, lots and lots of laps. My fave was the R8 performance but […]
Sunshine on a rainy day – Ferrari F12
Ferrari F12 New Zealand It was a nasty mid-winters day in Taupo NZ when I got my first chance to drive a Ferrari and what a Ferrari it was – their King’s horse; a V12 Beast called an F12. For more Ferrari reviews click here Subscribe to keep updated