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Bio: Alastair Sloane has been a newspaper journalist for almost 50 years. 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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October 20, 2020 |
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Meet Luca, an electric car build almost entirely from recycled trash by students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. The project took around 18 months to complete,...
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October 19, 2020 |
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The growth of SUVs in New Zealand goes a long way to explaining the old maxim that car ownership is not about what we truly need, but more a combination of what we want and what we think we...
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October 18, 2020 |
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Ute sales in the first four months of 2014 pointed to the Ford Ranger doing the unthinkable – overtaking the Toyota Hilux as New Zealand’s No. 1 workhorse. Won’t happen, said the...
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October 12, 2020 |
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If ever there was a perfect time to launch a new range of campervans this is it, says Kevin Richards, the manager of the commercial arm of Volkswagen NZ. Why? Because New Zealanders are...
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October 5, 2020 |
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Aston Martin might be best known for its luxury sports cars, but, like many of its rival automotive companies, it routinely takes part in third-party projects. Examples are the chronograph...
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October 1, 2020 |
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In February 2004 I wrote this in the NZ Herald: ‘In the 1980s and 90s, Mazda pretty much went from one conservative passenger car to another, with the exception of the brilliant MX-5...
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September 25, 2020 |
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The global battery market to power EVs and consumer electronics and to store renewable energy on power grids will be worth about $NZ175 billion a year by 2030, up from around $NZ42 billion...
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January 3, 2015 |
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Upgrades to the Tesla Roadster’s battery pack have improved the range of the all-electric two-door from around 370km to 650km, says company CEO Elon Musk. The changes mean good news for...
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January 2, 2015 |
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South Korean company Ssangyong will bolster its SUV presence in New Zealand this year with the Tivoli, a town-and-around compact that shows off the brand’s new design language. It will...
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December 22, 2014 |
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Volvo is about to demonstrate helmet-mounted technology that aims to reduce collisions between cars and cyclists. The two-way communications technology is integrated into both the helmet...
