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 11, 2019 |
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Why are Jeep importers Fiat Chrysler New Zealand (FCNZ) asking between NZ$16,000 and NZ$25,000 more than the Australians for the new Wrangler JL, a vehicle that is essentially an update of...
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April 4, 2019 |
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This is the Land Rover that a handful of New Zealanders wanted but missed out on, because all 150 special editions celebrating the company’s 70th anniversary were snapped up, many by...
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March 21, 2019 |
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Jeep’s new JL Wrangler is expected to be launched in New Zealand around May/June. This video deals with the Rubicon version, the two- and four-door model engineered specially for hardcore...
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March 20, 2019 |
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Me and Greg Murphy were talking about nothing in particular at a Holden event late last year. “Driven the two-litre Commodore yet?” he said. I hadn’t. I had had a drive of the...
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March 10, 2019 |
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One of the automotive breakthroughs often lost amid the dizzying development of digital technology is that made in 2001 by French company Renault: it was the first carmaker to get a...
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February 27, 2019 |
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There were a record 161,495 new vehicles registered with the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) in 2018 … but there is nothing on government records to show that almost 20 per cent were actually...
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February 26, 2019 |
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It’s been said that the front of this 356 Porsche hints at the Lightning McQueen car from the animated movie series ‘Cars’ – but there’s nothing to suggest that the fellow who...
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February 15, 2019 |
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What began as an idea in Canada’s north-west has become a passion at a workshop in Queenstown, where New Zealander Malcolm King is converting North America’s Toyota Tundra pick-up...
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February 9, 2019 |
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New vehicle registrations for January show mixed results, the first sign that carmakers have reason to pause after years of year-on-year record numbers. Overall registrations of 13,938...
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February 7, 2019 |
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The Bruder EXP-4 is a more compact version of the Australian company’s recent EXP-6, a 6.7m-long, self-contained trailer described as being ‘built for the Apocalypse.’ It can that...
