Author: editor
Website: http://www.automotivenews.co.nz
Bio: Alastair Sloane has been a newspaper journalist for more than 40 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 on Enzo’s old hill-climb road in Italy.
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April 18, 2018 |
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In 2003, Czech carmaker Skoda sold an average of two-and-a-half vehicles a week in New Zealand, its first year of re-entry after an absence of 10-12 years. Jump ahead to 2013 and it...
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April 4, 2018 |
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Toyota NZ’s ‘agents’ say it will take a month or so before the effects are felt from the company’s ‘Drive Happy’ project, what managing director Alistair Davis (above) has said...
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April 2, 2018 |
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The new all-wheel-drive Subaru Forester will land in New Zealand later this year, longer, wider but not quite as tall as the outgoing model. It is the third Subaru to be underpinned by the...
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April 2, 2018 |
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Holden designer Michael Simcoe has pretty much penned every Commodore since the 1980s. He also designed the modern Monaro. These days the 60-year-old Melbourne native is the global design...
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March 30, 2018 |
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Meet the Hackrod La Bandita Speedster, the world’s first full-sized 3D-printed car, modeled using virtual reality and engineered with artificial intelligence. Hackrod is a digital...
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March 25, 2018 |
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The twelfth-generation Toyota Corolla will land in New Zealand later this year, almost 50 years after the first-generation model racked up 763 sales in 1969, the first year it was available...
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March 22, 2018 |
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Lexus NZ is about to launch a couple of vehicles it needs to spark 2018 sales, after coming off a 2017 year that was down slightly on 2016 results. The cars in question are RX-badged...
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March 20, 2018 |
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Noted American surgeon Dr Jasbir Dhillon has bought and sold exotic cars for many years. In this episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, Dr Dhillon shows off his Jaguar XJR-15, one of only 53 such...
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March 19, 2018 |
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Why did Holden hire Australian actor Michael Caton to talk up the future of the nameplate in New Zealand? In the video on the www.holdenheretostay.co.nz website, Caton hints at his...
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March 15, 2018 |
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Kia Motors has got the jump in New Zealand on the likes of Volkswagen and Ford, if only because the South Korean company has already delivered what its many bigwig rivals are planning to...
