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BMW
on October 16 2015 |
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by Alastair Sloane |
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For the past three days BMW has been using the new Kauri Bay Boomrock centre to show off its latest X1 sports utility vehicle (pictured) to dealers. The new facility is near Clevedon, 45 minutes southeast of downtown Auckland. It has a small conference centre, 4WD track, provides skeet shooting, archery, golf, and knife-throwing competitions, and will have a new luxury lodge up and running before Christmas. The one other Boomrock facility is on Wellington’s west coast.
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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