Shockingly seductive – Audi e-tron S Sportback review

By definition, seduction is something that attracts or charms, it can be subtle or direct, visually stimulating or quite simply just felt. It’s an art that’s been currently expressed in the shape of the new Audi e-tron S Sportback and Audi New Zealand threw me the keys so I could fall under its spell. E-tron […]
Royal Residence: 2021 Hyundai Palisade Limited Review

Can Hyundai’s new palatial SUV navigate the fine line between luxury and value?
Sound as a pound – 2021 Ford Mustang Mach 1 review

As many of you may well know, in Britain, the phrase ‘sound as a pound’ can be used to describe something as being particularly good or great, but as I found out thanks to Ford New Zealand it can be aptly used to describe the 2021 Mustang Mach 1 – and SOUND is the operative […]
E-zy breezy – 2021 Mercedes-Benz E350 Cabriolet review

2021 Mercedes-Benz E350 Cabriolet review New Zealand – E-legant, e-motional, e-asy on the eye, e-fficient and now e-lectrified, the new E-Class has the ability to e-nliven all manner of senses, but when you add in a Coupe style and ‘drop the top’ cabriolet driving takes on a whole new level. Mercedes-Benz NZ let us play […]
Too Good Tucson: 2021 Hyundai Tucson Limited Review

Hyundai’s familiar SUV has had a big ‘glow up’.
The Unicorn: Hyundai IONIQ 5 Limited Review

Hyundai’s new EV is unlike anything else on the road.
Rapper’s delight – 2021 G-Wagon Review

2021 G440d AND AMG G63 review NZ. Thanks to Mercedes-Benz NZ loaning me not one but two new G-Class’ (or G wagons) and my extensive amount of internet trawling, I now believe I have discovered why Rappers like this iconic and awesome, yet (some would say) rather unimaginatively boxy SUV. Like me, you’ve undoubtedly all […]
Silent Running: Hyundai Kona Electric Series 2 Review

Can the Kona Electric Series 2 fill the big shoes left by the first generation model?
2021 Audi S3 Sportback review – Setting new standards

At the turn of this new millennium (and while the computer nerds were panicking about the Y2K bug), German automaker Audi took it upon themselves to create an up-specced version of their popular A3 compact. Calling it the S3, it opened the sporty premium compact market segment by offering more power, more athleticism and more […]
Close Encounters of the 5 Kind: Hyundai IONIQ 5 Review

No one would have believed within the first quarter of the 21st century, that the electric vehicle market was being watched by Hyundai. While many manufacturers busied themselves with their various concerns for zero emission motoring, Hyundai observed and studied, like someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of […]