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April 18, 2018 |
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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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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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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...
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March 25, 2018 |
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The twelfth-generation Toyota Corolla will land in New Zealand later this year, almost 50 years after the first-generation model racked up 763 sales in 1969, the first year it was available...
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March 22, 2018 |
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Lexus NZ is about to launch a couple of vehicles it needs to spark 2018 sales, after coming off a 2017 year that was down slightly on 2016 results. The cars in question are RX-badged...
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March 19, 2018 |
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Why did Holden hire Australian actor Michael Caton to talk up the future of the nameplate in New Zealand? In the video on the www.holdenheretostay.co.nz website, Caton hints at his...
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March 15, 2018 |
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Kia Motors has got the jump in New Zealand on the likes of Volkswagen and Ford, if only because the South Korean company has already delivered what its many bigwig rivals are planning to...
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March 13, 2018 |
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Nothing even remotely official yet from Toyota NZ about the new Supra sports car, although one senior company executive has said it will “absolutely” order it from the factory once the...
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March 11, 2018 |
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Alastair Sloane |
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The Beetle, the car that made Volkswagen a household name and carried it through the 20th century, is dead – it is to be killed off after the current generation ends production. The VW...
