The GWM Haval H7 – NZ Price and Spec
Remember when mid-size SUVs were all about playing it safe? Boring, beige, and basically indistinguishable from every other family hauler on the road? Well, you can’t say that about the new GWM Haval H7 – damn it’s a good looker. Bold, Boxy, and Unapologetically Adventurous The all-new GWM Haval H7 has landed in New Zealand, […]
BYD Sealion 5 Gets Three-Star ANCAP Rating as M9 People Mover Earns Five
ANCAP has given BYD’s M9 plug-in hybrid people mover five stars, but the Sealion 5 SUV managed only three, the first time a BYD has missed the top score. BYD’s perfect ANCAP record now has its first mark against it. The safety body has rated two of the brand’s plug-in hybrids under its 2026-2028 criteria, […]
Škoda Superb Marks 25 Years With Nearly 1.8 Million Buyers
Škoda’s flagship liftback and estate turns 25 this year, with four generations, almost 1.8 million customers and plug-in hybrids that now cover more than 120km on electric power alone. What does a brand known for sensible small cars do when it wants to go big? In Škoda’s case, it builds the Superb and keeps building […]
McLaren just trademarked two Kiwi place names, and it’s not a coincidence
McLaren’s new logo has barely had time to settle on our minds, and the brand’s already dropped another hint about where its head is at. Buried in the UK Intellectual Property Office’s records are two brand new trademark applications, filed by McLaren Automotive Limited on 22 September 2026, the day before the world got its […]
Subaru brings a big wing back for new WRX and BRZ Anniversary Specials
Subaru of America used its annual Boxerfest gathering at the York Fairgrounds in Pennsylvania on 27 September to reveal limited.production special editions of the 2027 WRX and 2027 BRZ, both built on the enthusiast-focused tS trim, both aimed directly at people who already know what a tS badge means. Subaru’s own press release confirmed the […]
RAVolution – 2026 Toyota RAV4 GXL HEV review NZ
The all-new sixth-generation RAV4 GXL HEV looks tougher, gets a big step up inside, and it’s still very much a RAV4, but beware, Toyota has put a 201kW PHEV in the same showroom. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is an idiom that applies to plenty of things in life (my favourite coffee order, […]
Skoda Celebrates a Superb 25 Years
It’s the second significant birthday for Skoda this year!
BMW Teases New Small-Capacity Naked Bike Ahead of October 1 Reveal
BMW Motorrad has posted a blacked-out teaser for a new small-capacity street bike, and it looks very much like an A2-friendly F450R naked powered by the F450GS parallel-twin. BMW Motorrad has shown a new small-capacity street bike on social media, but only as a dark silhouette. The teaser appeared on Wednesday, September 23. The finished […]
Mitsubishi Unveils All-New Pajero as Its New Flagship SUV
Mitsubishi has revealed a fully redesigned Pajero with a ladder frame, a 2.4-litre diesel and low-range 4WD, launching first in Thailand before Japan, Australia and about 100 other countries. The Pajero is back, and Mitsubishi is aiming well above nostalgia. At a world premiere in Tokyo, the company revealed a fully redesigned Pajero and named […]
BMW Group Partners With Mistral AI to Train AI on Crash Simulation Data
BMW Group is working with French AI company Mistral AI to build a specialised model trained on more than a petabyte of its own crash simulation data, with the aim of making complex engineering work faster and more accurate. Most carmakers talk about artificial intelligence in terms of voice assistants and touchscreens. BMW’s latest AI […]