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 23, 2020 |
in Car reviews, Highlights, Latest news |
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The jet ski might indeed be one of the best watersport toys going round, but it has nothing on the lightweight Nemo submersible from U-Boat Worx, a specialist company in The Netherlands....
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April 18, 2020 |
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Workers at Ford factories in the USA will wear wristbands made by South Korean tech giant Samsung – and similar to the one above – that buzz to help maintain social distancing,...
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April 16, 2020 |
in Spy videos |
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This video deals with the development of Ford’s early line of V8 engines...
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April 16, 2020 |
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Alastair Sloane writes: I grew up on a farm where my dad used an ex-army Bren gun carrier as a tractor. It was just after World War II and there wasn’t enough money around for a new...
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April 13, 2020 |
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This is an excerpt from the book In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine. The author is Rachel Lance, a PHd biomedical engineer in the US who studies trauma...
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April 9, 2020 |
in Highlights, Industry news, Latest news |
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South Korean carmaker Kia has won the overall World Car of the Year award with its Telluride SUV (above), a seven-seater available only in some left-hand-drive markets but with a styling...
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April 7, 2020 |
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The best-case scenario for new vehicle registrations in 2020? Around 60-65 per cent of the 154,479 logged by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) last year – or between 90,000 and 100,000...
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April 4, 2020 |
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Fans of exotic classic cars are already asking what affect the COVID-19 pandemic will have on upcoming auctions, like the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in August. The elite auction...
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March 19, 2020 |
in Highlights, Industry news, Latest news |
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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...
