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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December 3, 2019 |
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The company that converted a BMW M3 into a battery-electric competitor for the Pikes Peak hill climb in the US has modified an almost 50-year-old Volkswagen Kombi to also run on electrics,...
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November 14, 2019 |
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Tesla founder Elon Musk says the turmoil over Brexit was behind his decision to build the company’s next-generation electric car battery plant in Germany instead of Britain. The switch to...
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November 7, 2019 |
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US company Living Vehicle has been building solar-powered caravans for Americans who want to hit the road and not rely on plugging in at campsites or recreation vehicle parks. Now it has...
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October 21, 2019 |
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Murray Greenhalgh might be the general manager of Isuzu Utes NZ, but he can be forgiven for not knowing much about the new 2020 model D-Max. Japanese parent company executives at the Isuzu...
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October 1, 2019 |
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Skoda NZ’s new general manager Rodney Gillard (above) couldn’t have timed it better: literally days after his appointment he got to wheel out the company’s new hatchback, the...
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September 24, 2019 |
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By Daniel Oberhaus, of US website Wired Last April, Elon Musk promised that Tesla would soon be able to power its electric cars for more than 1 million miles (1.62m km) over the course of...
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September 11, 2019 |
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The 2020 Land Rover Defender has been unveiled and British motoring writer Paul Hudson takes us through a first look at the new 4&#...
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September 11, 2019 |
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There is a yarn British motoring writer Andrew English tells that’s almost too good to check. It concerns a senior Land Rover executive. Sitting down with his personal PR team one...
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September 7, 2019 |
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The new vehicle industry in New Zealand is heading for its first annual sales slump since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) bit deep 10 years ago. Registrations of new cars and commercials...
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August 4, 2019 |
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My love affair with Land Rovers began as a boy on the family farm in the 1950s. Sixty-plus years later the relationship had neared breaking point. I fear it is beyond reconciliation....
