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 2, 2018 |
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The Jeep Gladiator pick-up has finally broken cover. It goes into production next year and is expected to go on sale in New Zealand in 2020. In this video, a team from Fast Lane Trucks was...
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December 2, 2018 |
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It’s been one of the worst kept automotive secrets of recent years, that Jeep was again developing a pick-up truck after many years without one. Now it has finally broken cover and will...
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December 2, 2018 |
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Swiss watchmaker Zenith launched its groundbreaking El Primero chronograph watch in 1969, the same year that Land Rover rolled out the two-door Range Rover, now known as the Classic. It was...
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November 27, 2018 |
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News that Chrysler and Dodge models will no longer be available in New Zealand brings to mind the small Neon sedan Chrysler launched here in the late 1990s. It will forever be remembered as...
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November 20, 2018 |
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What will the sacking of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance chairman Carlos Ghosn (above) mean for the carmaking French-Japanese conglomerate? Nissan chief executive Hiroto Saikawa said...
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November 20, 2018 |
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Englishman Richard Browning and his company Gravity built the world’s fastest personal jet suit. Here he talks to Wired magazine about the processes he went through to design and...
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November 18, 2018 |
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A California company mostly known in the automotive industry for its custom monoblock alloy wheels has teamed with a division of General Electric to produce a world-first 3D-printed wheel...
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November 18, 2018 |
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A California company mostly known in the automotive industry for its custom monoblock alloy wheels has teamed with a division of General Electric to produce a world-first 3D-printed wheel...
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November 10, 2018 |
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Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is looking to provide luxurious sleeping pods in the cargo holds of its passenger planes within the next two years. Planes such as the A330-800 series, the...
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November 8, 2018 |
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Leaked documents show sales of new Toyota vehicles plummeted by an average 35 per cent across the carmaker’s New Zealand dealer network immediately after it introduced its ‘Drive...
