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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June 2, 2020 |
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First it was an Isuzu executive, confirming three years ago last month that the new Mazda BT-50 would pretty much be a clone of the new Isuzu D-Max ute. Mazda’s next BT-50 ute will be...
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May 31, 2020 |
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British brand Aston Martin may be deep in the red but it’s driving ahead with its multi-million dollar DB5 Continuation project, a recreation of the iconic car driven by James Bond in the...
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May 29, 2020 |
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Pretty much every maker of fuel-saving hybrid vehicles combines, on paper at least, the power and torque of both the petrol engine and electric motor for overall output. Even Ferrari does....
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May 26, 2020 |
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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says reports that it is seeking a NZ$4 billion bailout from the British Government are “inaccurate and speculative”– but it is in talks for help as it battles...
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May 23, 2020 |
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Spy pictures of Hyundai’s Santa Cruz ute have been floating about for some time, but this first picture of the actual bodyshell shows how the four-door production version has grown from...
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May 20, 2020 |
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Under the skin of this ordinary looking people-mover is what its developers label as extraordinary – 248 solar cells that can fully recharge its lithium-ion battery pack or, in other...
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May 14, 2020 |
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A builder in Auckland has run into the same problem owners of diesel vehicles, especially utes, have: exhaust filters so clogged with soot that they can send the vehicle into limp-home...
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May 11, 2020 |
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The senior executive of a top 10 motoring nameplate in New Zealand is planning to exit the coronavirus lockdown with the words of hard-charging American business leader Jack Welch as a...
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May 1, 2020 |
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Code-breakers at Bletchley Park, the British World War II facility tasked with cracking Nazi Germany’s Enigma system, encouraged new recruits to think differently. One senior man always...
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May 1, 2020 |
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This film tells the story of performance house RUF, how, over the past 80-odd years, it’s gone from a small local repair shop in Pfaffenhausen, Germany, to continued building cars for one...
