The 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe has gone full midlife crisis — but in the best way possible.
Rugged, Square, and Weirdly Awesome Family Wagon
Posted: July 19, 2025 in 4x4, All, Hyundai, New Car ReviewsTags: 4x4, all new, calligraphy, car reviews, cars, family wagon, Hyundai, new zealand, nz, nz car reviews, santa fe
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Little (but bigger) Red Monster
Posted: April 19, 2025 in 4x4, All, New Car Reviews, SuzukiTags: 3door, 4x4, cars, jimny, new zealand, nz, nz car review, off road, suv, suzuki
It has been a busy year for us with my day job keeping me extremely busy and exhausted so we are playing catch up on some of our reviews.
A while back, (5 years ago actually!) we tested the three door version of the awesome little Suzuki Jimny, which was a great little wagon off road but not that great for around town. How does the 5 door compare? Check out our video to find out.
His & Hers
Posted: August 11, 2024 in 4x4, All, New Car Reviews, SuzukiTags: 2wd, 4wd, blue, car review, hybrid, new zealand, new zealand cars reviews, nz, red, s-cross, s-cross hybrid, suzuki
This time round we have two cars at the same time. And they are they same, but also different, but also the same, apart from being different. Um, what?
Yes, here we have the Suzuki S-Cross Hybrid two wheel drive up against the Suzuki S-Cross Hybrid four wheel drive. The one in red is the 2wd version. The blue one is the 4wd version. Yes, after a few hours in them I finally remembered which was which!
Grand White Grandland – Or is it?
Posted: July 7, 2024 in All, New Car Reviews, OpelTags: car review, grandland, hybrid, new zealand, new zealand car review, Opel, phev, plug in hybrid, review, sri
Just a quick little video for the Opel Grandland SRi PHEV. More of a rant than an actual review. Take a look at the video below to see what I mean…
More Comfortable Than Your Couch
Posted: June 3, 2024 in All, Citroen, New Car ReviewsTags: c4, Citroen, citroen e-c4, e-c4, electric, electric car, electric vehicle, ev, nz, nz car review
One of the most comfortable cars on the market, as Citroën have always been, with their innovative suspension set up. The incredible Progressive Hydraulic Cushion suspension has you feeling like you are floating over bumps. Add to that the double padded seats and you will never want to get out of the car when you get to your destination!
Performance of the fully electric C4 isn’t jaw dropping by any means. Yes, you get the typical instant torque from an electric motor and lack of needing actual cogs for gears, but with a zero to one hundred time of around 9 seconds it won’t out run the boy racer sitting next to you at the lights. The claimed range of 363 kilometres is reasonable, but it’s likely you’d need to spend a fair amount of time driving in eco mode to achieve this.
We reviewed this great EV back in December but unfortunately that thing called life got in the way. Firstly our video editor got caught up with some busy high school stuff and then when the video was finally completed I went and started a new day job which has taken some massive adjustments for me with different and irregular hours!
Check out our full (almost out dated) video review below. Feel free to ‘like’, share, comment and subscribe! There are more reviews to come.
White, Warmer than Yellow
Posted: February 18, 2024 in All, New Car Reviews, OpelTags: astra, car review, economical, gse, hot hatch, hybrid, new zealand, new zealand car review, nz car review, Opel, opel astra, opel astra gse, plugin hybrid
The yellow SRi Astra we tested a little while ago was a great little warm hatch but the white GSe plug-in hybrid version, whilst still not a hot hatch, is most definitely much warmer. Pumping out much more torque and kilo-wattages, 360Nm and 165kW combined compared to only 230Nm and 96kW than the SRi, it really does feel much closer to a hot hatch than the lukewarm SRi.
Economic Delivery
Posted: January 10, 2024 in All, New Car Reviews, PeugeotTags: delivery van, e-expert, electric van, ev, ev van, evv, expert, new zealand car reviews, peugeot, peugeot e-expert, peugeot expert, trades, tradesman van, van
Peugeot’s latest offering for the commercial sector shouldn’t disappoint those needing to save on their businesses bottom line when it comes to running costs for their tradies transport or delivery vehicle. Whilst the range, 339 kilometres (claimed), isn’t suitable for the likes of couriers that will travel many more kilometres than the e-Expert can manage, it will still be perfect for tradies, builders in particular that can charge it while at the construction site, or businesses that will only do a few deliveries or pickups a day. This will certainly make the company accountant smile when they crunch the numbers on the running costs!
Grand Blue Grandland
Posted: January 7, 2024 in All, New Car Reviews, OpelTags: grandland, grandland sri, new zealand, new zealand car review, nz, nz car review, Opel, opel grandland, opel grandland sri, sri, suv
The Opel Grandland looks like your normal SUV, or oversized hatchback, but it is more than just that. Flicking this family wagon into sport mode turns a normal everyday runabout into something a bit special guaranteed to put put a smile on your dial and probably your passengers as well, unless of course they scare easily!
Smooth, Yellow, Luke-warm Hatch.
Posted: November 19, 2023 in All, New Car Reviews, OpelTags: astra, car reviews, new car, new zealand, newzealand, nz, nz car reviews, Opel, opel astra, opel astra sri, sri
Welcome to the Opel Astra SRi hatch. Astra has been in New Zealand for quite a few years now but usually behind Holden badging, and to be fair most of the earlier ones weren’t all that great despite the fact they sold well, usually to fleet buyers forcing sales reps around the country to visit their clients in them.
Ugly? Maybe. Fast? Yes. Economical? Definitely!
Posted: November 4, 2023 in All, Hyundai, New Car ReviewsTags: electric vehicle, ev, hyundai ioniq 6, hyundai., ioniq, ioniq 6, new zealand, nz, nz car review
This has to be by far one of the best vehicles we have tested here at NZ On Cars. The Hyundai IONIQ 6 is absolutely loaded with all kinds of techy gadgets, roomy, comfortable, and crazy quick for what is basically a family sized sedan. Sure, the looks take some getting used to, and many out there quite simply cannot get past that. That is their loss. To be fair I wasn’t too crazy on the looks myself but after the first few days it really grew on me. It’s different, and that’s a good thing, it stands out from all the mundane average three-box sedan shapes that has been the staple design of family sedans for many decades. The shape of the IONIQ 6 is more than just a quirky, droopy shape, it has an aerodynamic drag coefficient of just 0.22, which is basically a scientific way of saying it can slip through the air more efficiently than a greasy eel.
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