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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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September 10, 2021 |
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Lotus has talked for years about setting up in New Zealand with strong local support. Now it has finally done something about it. The Giltrap Group will open a Lotus outlet in Auckland next...
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September 4, 2021 |
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No, the Jaguar E-Type boat above isn’t a scale model – but it is a plaything of sorts. It and the others pictured here are products of Italian designer Pierpaolo Lazzarini. He and his...
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August 25, 2021 |
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Two former Ferrari designers borrowed the evocative look of one of Alfa Romeo’s most revered cars to pen a 55 metre-long catamaran concept powered by electricity from hydrogen fuel cells....
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August 19, 2021 |
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The Tesla Model 3 has been judged the most efficient electric vehicle in a test conducted by UK magazine What Car? The Model 3 sedan rated best in terms of energy efficiency but lost out...
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August 7, 2021 |
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Expect Audi New Zealand boss Dean Sheed to highlight a technical triumph for the brand when the new RS3 sedan arrives in New Zealand next year. It’s a development of a Haldex differential...
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August 4, 2021 |
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The latest Skoda Superb being trialled by the New Zealand Police will most likely end up with an office job rather than a Prime One role in the front line. Not because it’s a tenderfoot,...
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July 16, 2021 |
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The Ford Ranger ute, New Zealand’s best selling vehicle, could cost up to $4660 more from next year under the Government’s Clean Car Import Standard. That’s the number Ford’s...
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July 9, 2021 |
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The end of the internal combustion era for Lotus is coming with the new Emira, the first new model from the British marque since 2009 and the last petrol-powered car it will produce. As...
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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....
