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Bio: Alastair Sloane has been a newspaper journalist for 50 years this year. He has had all sorts of newspaper roles along the way, including editing two dailies. He was the motoring editor of the New Zealand Herald for 16 years from 1996 until 2012. He owns a 1968 VW Beetle. Best days at the wheel include doing part of the Land Rover Camel Trophy route in Papua New Guinea, driving a Nissan Patrol over earthquake-hit roads in Guatemala, and a Ferrari Italia 458 on Enzo’s old hill-climb road in Italy.
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April 14, 2022 |
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Here is the list of vehicles that sank with the ship the Felicity Ace off the coast of Portugal in February. Read it and weep. The ship was carrying thousands of new and privately owned...
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April 6, 2022 |
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The record 21,044 new vehicles registered with the NZ Transport Agency in March was the end result of a motoring industry move to avoid the first stage of the Coalition Government’s tax...
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March 25, 2022 |
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Rarely has a car that’s days away from being launched in New Zealand come with such a glowing collection of international awards as the Kia EV6, the 2022 European Car of the Year. Aside...
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March 18, 2022 |
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The collectors’ market for the few petrol-powered performance cars that don’t cost the earth is heating up as ever tightening emissions regulations move automotive companies towards an...
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March 15, 2022 |
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The Coalition Government’s upcoming tax take on fossil-fuelled light vehicles is a double whammy, in that it will penalise both suppliers and buyers of new and used imported models. There...
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March 11, 2022 |
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This is a repeat of a story on these pages a year ago. Gains new significance a year on … What price rhodium now? It’s a practice that has been going on in New Zealand for decades...
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March 4, 2022 |
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The Coalition Government is planning to grow by four times the number of fixed speed cameras on New Zealand roads, adding more than 600 to the 190 or so in operation now, says a source in...
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February 22, 2022 |
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Australia is looking to rebuild its car-making capacity using its abundance of key minerals to encourage major electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers to set up operations Downunder. The...
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February 18, 2022 |
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First, there’s Citroen offshoot DS Automobiles borrowing from its Formula E race car programme to build a battery-electric (BEV) prototype delivering 600kW and a mind-boggling 8000Nm....
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February 14, 2022 |
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In the past couple of years the number of battery-electric (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) available worldwide has increased upwards of 40 per cent, to around 370. And...
