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July 2, 2018 |
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Former All Black coach John Hart’s daughter Kay (above) is the new president and chief executive officer of Ford Australia and New Zealand. Hart, 40, replaces Graeme Whickman, who has...
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July 2, 2018 |
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The V6 Volkswagen Amarok is the winner of a comprehensive Australian shootout of nine one-tonne utes, all of which are also on sale in New Zealand. Writers from two of Australia’s most...
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May 6, 2018 |
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Road safety advocates in New Zealand are studying a law passed by the New South Wales Parliament targeting illegal mobile phone use by motorists. In what is a world first, the Australian...
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April 29, 2018 |
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Ford Australia and New Zealand have an anxious two-month wait before it is known if the special-edition ute based on the Ranger can be called Raptor. The Raptor name is a Ford trademark in...
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April 26, 2018 |
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In 1972, Formula One driver Ronnie Peterson drove a March Ford to finish third in the German Grand Prix, at the Nurburgring. For the record, of the New Zealand drivers in the race, Howden...
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April 24, 2018 |
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Alastair Sloane |
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The production version of Audi’s battery-electric e-tron SUV will be able to be fully charged in less than 30 minutes for a driving range of more than 400km. It will be the first...
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April 18, 2018 |
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Alastair Sloane |
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In 2003, Czech carmaker Skoda sold an average of two-and-a-half vehicles a week in New Zealand, its first year of re-entry after an absence of 10-12 years. Jump ahead to 2013 and it...
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April 4, 2018 |
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Alastair Sloane |
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Toyota NZ’s ‘agents’ say it will take a month or so before the effects are felt from the company’s ‘Drive Happy’ project, what managing director Alistair Davis (above) has said...
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April 2, 2018 |
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The new all-wheel-drive Subaru Forester will land in New Zealand later this year, longer, wider but not quite as tall as the outgoing model. It is the third Subaru to be underpinned by the...
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March 30, 2018 |
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Alastair Sloane |
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Meet the Hackrod La Bandita Speedster, the world’s first full-sized 3D-printed car, modeled using virtual reality and engineered with artificial intelligence. Hackrod is a digital...
