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Managing workplace and client diversity
Tuesday, 04 February 2020
All workplaces are becoming more diverse as New Zealand’s population mix changes radically.
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Ed Speak
The business
Wednesday, 04 December 2019
The business of vehicle repairs is complex and getting more so; it goes without saying that advances in technology make the actual repairs more complex, although at the same time offering new diagn
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Other
Big Boys Toys
Wednesday, 04 December 2019
The annual Big Boys Toys had a strong automotive flavour this year with around half the total exhibit space comprising things automotive covering cars, bikes and construction machinery.
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Motorsport
Mackenzie and Sayers step up to win 2019 Targa NZ
Wednesday, 04 December 2019
Proving that the old adage ‘to finish first, first you have to finish,’ is as true today as it was when it was first coined, Aucklander Haydn Mackenzie and his Hamilton-based co-driver Matthew Saye
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Other
Tackling medical incapacity and absence from work
Wednesday, 04 December 2019
Jo Douglas has advice for business owners managing medical incapacity in the workplace. What does a fair and reasonable approach look like?
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Parts
Air conditioning, radiators and coolants
Wednesday, 04 December 2019
Radiators and coolants
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OEM
Craig Lowndes reveals completed Holden ‘Project Monaro’ prize car
Wednesday, 04 December 2019
Craig Lowndes today took the covers off the completed Project Monaro at Holden HQ in Port Melbourne.
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Parts
Ultimate 4WD brake upgrade kit released by Bendix
Wednesday, 04 December 2019
Bendix Brakes has launched what is aptly named the Ultimate 4WD Brake Upgrade Kit with advanced brake pads and rotors, braided lines and a host of ancillary items to make for a smooth change over a
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Other
What is happening with WoF’s?
Wednesday, 04 December 2019
NZTA is having an increased focus on it’s regulatory role including a recent $45 million injection of funding.
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Ed Speak
The times they are a changing
Thursday, 07 November 2019
Racking my brain for a good first editorial as the new editor, I came across a Facebook post in a group I follow: “NZ car related street scenes 1950s-1980s.” It was a photo taken in the workshop of
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News
NARVA Launches Factory-style OE Switch Range
Thursday, 07 November 2019
Car enthusiasts and fleet operators in New Zealand can now achieve a factory finish when they install new electrical items in their vehicles through the launch of a new range of OE-style push butto
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Motorsport
Paddon shatters Ashley Forest hill climb record to take win
Thursday, 07 November 2019
On his way to winning this year’s event outright, Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon shattered the Ashley Forest Rallysprint record not once but twice, using a modified version of his Hyundai AP4++ to...
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Other
A criminal offence: How safe are your workers? 
Thursday, 07 November 2019
It pays to remember that a workplace health and safety prosecution is a criminal offence, says Cathy Parker, as she outlines why vehicles account for 73 percent of workplace fatalities.
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Parts
Servicing – how is it changing?
Thursday, 07 November 2019
vIn light of the fact that new car sales are down this year, what does this mean for the servicing industry? Opportunity, more than anything else. 
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OEM
Behind the scenes at the Jaguar design studio 
Thursday, 07 November 2019
 
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Panel & Paint
IAG wholly owned repair shop for New Zealand
Thursday, 07 November 2019
IAG recently announced it would set up its first wholly owned repair shop in East Tamaki. This would be a trial run.
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News
48V Full Hybrid is a Prius killer says IDTechEx 
Thursday, 07 November 2019
New research by IDTechEx in its report, “
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Ed Speak
Farewell to John Oxley
Tuesday, 01 October 2019
We farewell current editor John Oxley from the driver’s seat of Motor Equipment News with this issue, John is moving on to other adventures after a lifetime of automotive writing and over
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Motorsport
Kiwi Supercars heroes win big at home
Monday, 30 September 2019
Kiwi Supercars heroes Scott McLaughlin and Shane Van Gisbergen made this year’s ITM SuperSprint meeting at Pukekohe Park Raceway their own. 
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News
A glimpse into the future… 
Monday, 30 September 2019
The Frankfurt Motor Show has always been one of my favourites – alongside Paris – even though covering it is extremely tiring thanks to its large scale and huge number of exhibits. 
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