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November 14, 2019 |
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Tesla founder Elon Musk says the turmoil over Brexit was behind his decision to build the company’s next-generation electric car battery plant in Germany instead of Britain. The switch to...
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November 7, 2019 |
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US company Living Vehicle has been building solar-powered caravans for Americans who want to hit the road and not rely on plugging in at campsites or recreation vehicle parks. Now it has...
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October 21, 2019 |
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Murray Greenhalgh might be the general manager of Isuzu Utes NZ, but he can be forgiven for not knowing much about the new 2020 model D-Max. Japanese parent company executives at the Isuzu...
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October 1, 2019 |
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Skoda NZ’s new general manager Rodney Gillard (above) couldn’t have timed it better: literally days after his appointment he got to wheel out the company’s new hatchback, the...
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September 24, 2019 |
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By Daniel Oberhaus, of US website Wired Last April, Elon Musk promised that Tesla would soon be able to power its electric cars for more than 1 million miles (1.62m km) over the course of...
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September 11, 2019 |
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There is a yarn British motoring writer Andrew English tells that’s almost too good to check. It concerns a senior Land Rover executive. Sitting down with his personal PR team one...
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September 7, 2019 |
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The new vehicle industry in New Zealand is heading for its first annual sales slump since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) bit deep 10 years ago. Registrations of new cars and commercials...
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August 4, 2019 |
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My love affair with Land Rovers began as a boy on the family farm in the 1950s. Sixty-plus years later the relationship had neared breaking point. I fear it is beyond reconciliation....
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July 30, 2019 |
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South Korean carmaker Kia is telling its global distributors that sales of compact SUVs will grow a further 20 per cent over the next three years, from 6.5 million in 2018 to more than 8.2...
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July 20, 2019 |
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The president of General Motors, Mark Reuss, gave the strongest hint five-and-a-half years ago that a right-hand-drive Chevrolet Corvette was in the production pipeline. It was at the...
