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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March 19, 2020 |
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Seems car distributors and dealers in New Zealand have borrowed from the Monty Python song, ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.’ The coronavirus pandemic has shaken the foundations...
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March 14, 2020 |
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German company Gemballa has been customising and tuning performance cars for almost 40 years. Its latest project is an off-road flyer based on the model 992 Porsche 911. It’s been dubbed...
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March 12, 2020 |
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Registrations of new passenger cars for the first two months of 2020 plunged 25.3 per cent on the same period last year, according to Motor Industry Association (MIA) figures. The NZ...
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March 2, 2020 |
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Holden New Zealand will begin laying off its head office staff in Auckland at the end of March, say industry sources. First to go will be marketing staff. Others will go in staggered...
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February 26, 2020 |
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Senior Holden dealers in Australia have asked its Prime Minister Scott Morrison for his government’s help in securing compensation from General Motors for the loss to the dealer network...
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February 25, 2020 |
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This is an edited version of a story that appeared in magazine Wired. The rush to electric vehicles (EVs) is creating bottlenecks in the manufacturing of raw materials for the batteries...
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February 17, 2020 |
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UPDATE: General Motors is to stop building right-hand-drive vehicles for the global market, except for selected models like the Chevrolet Camaro and Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck. They...
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February 11, 2020 |
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The last time Ford imported Brazilian-made models to New Zealand was in 2002, in the form of the F250 and F350 pick-up trucks from the company’s South American right-hand drive assembly...
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February 9, 2020 |
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Canadian economist Marc Jaccard has been an advisor to his country’s governments on ways to cut carbon emissions – but he doesn’t believe the quest begins and ends with fossil fuels....
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February 4, 2020 |
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The success of the new Kia Seltos in the past three months clearly shows how sales of SUVs in New Zealand are starting to take even bigger chunks out of those of passenger cars. SUVs...
