A pack of SUVs dominate the top finalists for the 2014 New Zealand Car of the Year. The New Zealand Automobile Association and New Zealand Motoring Writers’ Guild (NZMWG) will announce the Car of the Year at the Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland on December 4. Members of the guild and AA judges who have […]
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Here is one of the first reviews of the new Ford Mustang that is heading down our way shortly. It sounds good. Needless to say, we are looking forward to getting our hands on it when it lands here… Click here to read Jalopnik’s first impressions of the new Mustang!
HSV today released details of the latest bout of supercharged silliness that has gripped them, possessing them to build and released the GTS Maloo – a 430kW/740Nm ute. Yes, that is now a thing, thanks to the frenzied, clearly disturbed minds at HSV in Australia jamming the 6.2-litre supercharged LSA V8 into the company’s already-extreme […]
Volkswagen gives us our best look yet at its new Global Rallycross (GRC) challenger, the GRC Beetle. Okay, we have seen pics, but we haven’t seen (or heard) the thing in all its rubber-melting action until now. Here driver (and host of TopGear USA) Tanner Foust removes some rubber from the GRC Beetle’s tyres and delivers a […]
With today’s shakedown sessions now complete, Kiwi rally stars Hayden Paddon and John Kennard are all set for the next three days of international competition as the 2014 World Rally Championship’s tenth round takes place in Australia. Paddon has been looking forward to the 12-14 September running of the Coates Hire Rally Australia all season. […]
Recently we popped over to Ford HQ in Australia to see just what they would be doing there after production of the Falcon stops. Quite a lot, as it turns out. You see Ford Oz is a “Centre of Excellence” in the wider Ford world, meaning that they take the lead in the design and […]
One-piece carbon fibre wheels – say no more. Watch the video, it is fascinating!
After lots of teasing Renault has finally released pictures, video-gamey style video and specifications of its spectacular Renault Sport R.S 01 that will make up a large part of the French manufacturer’s motorsport plans in the near future, including being the basis of its own one-make racing series. Built on a Dallara carbon monocoque chassis and […]
Southland’s Ian ‘Inky’ Tulloch is creating another piece of local motorsport history with the brand-new Camaro GT3 race car he’s importing into New Zealand to contest key events such as November’s Highlands 101 endurance race. Tulloch, the former Mayor of Mataura and Gore District and a successful businessman, has won numerous national and Australian motor […]
We have done our first podcast! Well… sort of… On a recent Ford event I was a invited to be a guest on the NZ Tech Podcast by host Paul Spain who was also attending. We talk about car-related tech stuff, some non-car gadgets and about the reason we were there – a visit to […]
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