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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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July 8, 2021 |
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The market for the few petrol-powered performance cars that don’t cost the earth will heat up as carmakers move towards electric powertrains. An example of a future collectable is the...
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July 6, 2021 |
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French startup company Hopium, founded by racing driver Olivier Lombard, has begun testing its prototype Machina, a sedan powered by a hydrogen fuel cell with a claimed range of 1000km....
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June 30, 2021 |
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Between 8am and 9am on a cold Thursday morning in Norway last February, five million Norwegians used as much electricity as 10 million residents of neighbouring Sweden. The reason, reported...
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June 10, 2021 |
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Toyota has stuck to the tried and true with the new Land Cruiser 300. The vehicle’s dimensions – length, width, wheelbase – are pretty much the same as the outgoing 200 series,. The...
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June 8, 2021 |
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British auction house Nicolas Mee & Co is selling an automotive package deal to beat all automotive package deals – three individual Vantage editions of the Aston Martin DB5. All...
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May 27, 2021 |
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Talk about paint jobs! Argentinian-born artist Felipe Pantone has decorated with his signature style four Alpine A110S sports coupes, three of which will be sold to the public. Pantone and...
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May 6, 2021 |
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A startup company in California is planning to build limited-edition models of a four-seater flying car, each one costing around NZ$1.1million, including pilot training...
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May 6, 2021 |
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A startup company in California is planning to build limited-edition models of a four-seater flying car, each one costing around NZ$1.1million, including pilot training. And it is already...
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May 4, 2021 |
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UK-based startup Viritech has unveiled the ‘Apricale’, a prototype of what it calls “the world’s first production hydrogen hypercar”. The company says the car will go into...
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April 28, 2021 |
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A computer-generated study in Germany imagines a time when commuters on the country’s Kiel Fjord waterway will be carried by zero-emissions ferries...
