Author: editor
Website: http://www.automotivenews.co.nz
Bio: Alastair Sloane has been a newspaper journalist for almost 50 years.
Has had all sorts of roles along the way, including editing two daily newspapers. Joined the NZ Herald from the Sunday Star-Times in 1996 to help launch a sports weekly. Became motoring editor of the Herald soon after, a position he held until leaving in 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 458 on Enzo’s old hill-climb road in Italy.
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May 13, 2015 |
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The camouflaged Aston Martin in the pictures on this page will replace the DB9 variants, that much generic cialis is certain. It sits on new architecture and has a Mercedes-AMG engine under...
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May 11, 2015 |
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BMW has given its sixth-generation 3-Series a mid-life makeover, not unexpected in light of the worldwide sales success of its main rival the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and the arrival early...
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May 9, 2015 |
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Swiss watchmaker Baume & Mercier has produced a chronograph to honour American motorsport legend Carroll Shelby (above) and the 50th anniversary of the iconic V8-powered Shelby Cobra of...
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May 7, 2015 |
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Seven out of every 10 new vehicles in New Zealand are sold on fixed-term leases to business fleets – a statistic ripe for abuse under modern digital methods of ‘clocking,’ or winding...
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May 5, 2015 |
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The prickly reaction by two New Zealand car companies to crash test findings by the Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP) underlines partly why the facility will no longer be...
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April 30, 2015 |
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The cars on this page represent the birth of a new Holden badge in New Zealand. The badge won’t actually change, it’s just that the cars it’s pinned on will. Certainly after 2017 when...
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April 28, 2015 |
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First, Ferdinand Piech, the chairman of pretty much everything at the Volkswagen Group, criticised the company’s chief executive officer Martin Winterkorn, saying he was “at a...
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April 28, 2015 |
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Swiss watchmaker Heuer released the first Monaco chronograph in 1969 to honour the Monaco Grand Prix. Than didn’t it. I thought is pharmacy online canada24d use you product. Bit...
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April 26, 2015 |
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Jaguar Land Rover and British watchmaker Bremont have designed two new watches to celebrate the iconic design of the E-Type. The MkI and MkII watches come after the two companies agreed to...
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April 24, 2015 |
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Is Toyota going to equip its new Hilux light truck with a camera-based autonomous braking system, an almost sure-fire way of winning five-star crash safety credentials from the European New...
