Refined runabout – new Honda CR-V review
According to Japanese automotive company Honda, CR-V stands for ‘Comfortable Runabout Vehicle’, however the acronym has also been referred to as Compact Recreational Vehicle, either way, this Kiwi family fave model has been upgraded and refined recently, and we (finally) got our hands on it. I have to admit that, for one reason or another, […]
Light-footed quinquagenarian – 2022 Honda Civic Mugen review
Honda’s longest-standing nameplate the Civic has turned fifty and to help celebrate this epic achievement, Honda New Zealand has released a Mugen edition and we got to play with it. Despite it not being ‘official’, Mugen is the performance name that’s essentially gone hand in hand with Honda since Hirotoshi Honda (son of Honda’s founder) […]
Sokai Civic – 2022 Honda Civic Sport Hatch review
According to Honda, when creating the 11th (yes the 11th) generation of their longest-running nameplate the Civic, the engineers and designers took a Zen moment and focused their efforts on making it more Sokai – which as we all know means (amongst other things) ‘to yearn for’ or ‘be more attached to’. Now although this […]
First Look: 2023 Honda Civic Type R
Honda’s hot hatch is ready to take on the Nurburgring.
Jazz-e – 2021 Honda Jazz Luxe e:HEV review
The Jazz nameplate has been in Honda’s range of great vehicles since 2001, however, recently we attended the NZ launch of the next or 4th Generation of this popular model in its NZ spiritual home in Nelson. I drove the three new variants at the launch, the Life (the regular Jazz), the Crosstar (a Jazz/SUV […]
Psychic Civic – Honda Civic RS Sensing Review
With the current Civic RS already having received a bold new look and brand new attitude, Honda ‘thought’ they’d make it a little bit psychic too. We went along to check out the new Civic RS ‘Sensing’ and somehow they knew we were coming. We took a look at the 10th, yes 10th generation Honda […]