The next E-Class can drive, and even lane-cross, without a human hand on the wheel … but it’s unlikely to be allowed to put itself to bed at night here.
Is America’s pony car hairy-chested enough? That so many Kiwi Mustang buyers are immediately implementing increasingly wild performance upgrades suggests not, but Ford’s not worried.
A performance and price advantage ensures Mercedes’ incredibly hot A45 hatchback has regained top-of-the-world status from a rival that bumped it down a peg three months ago.
The first Jeep not to hold full American citizenship might avoid direct confrontation with a like-sized local market favourite from Japan when it finally arrives, its distributor has hinted.
Might the just-launched 308 GTi be trumped here by an even more electrifying edition? Peugeot NZ isn’t saying ‘non’ in respect to a ripper hybrid racer in the wings.
They’re calling it the ‘lighthouse model for a new Lexus’ – and it’s set to shine on the Kiwi market in just over a year, perhaps making a racing start.
Hyundai New Zealand suggests customers who bought the latest Tucson before it adopted an engineering revision that has lifted the model’s safety score won’t be left feeling shortchanged.
The brand that claims to have been born on the battlefields of dubbya-dubbya deuce is creating a series of special editions to celebrate its beginnings.
A more steroidal version of the stampeding SQ5 is set to keep Audi’s medium crossover relevant until the new-generation replacement comes in early 2017.
ONE of Europe’s pioneering electric drives seems set to at last plug into the New Zealand motoring scene, in its original hatch form as well as a more recent van version.
The next Lexus performance sedan will present its race circuit breeding in fitting style by taking an active role in the upcoming international motor-racing series
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