Tag: Hatchback

Citroen rediscovers its design flair, applying it to the new C3 while incorporating its renowned comfort traits. Is the new ...

The small car realm remains an important one for car makers, the hatches more sophisticated than ever. Herein, we drive ...

Kia’s smallest car in third-generation guise sports an updated look and chassis, and a retuned 1.2l four-cylinder engine but retains ...

Well bugger me, as Colin ‘Pinetree’ Meads (RIP) might once have said. We’d just gotten over our surprise and delight ...

For some time sedans haven’t been great sellers here, Kiwis preferring the practicality of SUVs and hatches, but that’s changing ...

For those who bemoan the lack of new cars with a manual transmission, have we got a deal for you? ...

Mazda’s current diminutive 2 has been around for three years, which means it’s facelift time. Not that you’re going to ...

RS used to be reserved for fireball models but not any more, as there are now mildly wild RS versions ...

On the wane their light may be but there’s still plenty of life left for the humble hatchback. We assemble ...

Volkswagen’s Golf GTI has been a Kiwi favourite hot hatch but with the mildest of makeovers is it still the ...

Honda NZ has consistently rejected importing the Civic Type R. Too radical for its customers? Under new management they’ve relented.We ...

The top of the new Swift range, the RS, goes forced induction for the first time, with a 1.0-litre direct ...

Volkswagen and Ford have been meddling with hot hatches for decades and now make two of the best. So which ...

When driving a sporty number, people generally ask “how’s it go?” but when you’ve got an EV, they want to ...

We get to drive new vehicles with manual transmissions so seldom nowadays that we wonder why the danged things won’t ...

Rio hasn’t always been a big seller here but Kia is determined to do better with its larger, smarter but ...

The smallest automotive offerings are no longer awful little econoboxes of doom. They’ve never been better and here we pitch ...

Holden’s new three-tier Astra line-up arrives in New Zealand wearing its 2016 European COTY crown. Does it live up to ...

The original i3 wasn't quite the success BMW might have hoped for but sales have taken off since the battery ...

Designed for the driver who appreciates a well fettled normally aspirated engine and a six-speed manual transmission, the SP25 is ...