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Goodyear glimpse of the future
With electric vehicle interest in New Zealand and globally continuing to grow, research and development to support this new technology are also underway.
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How to select your EBP and EWP
Iconic Australian automotive cooling technologies manufacturer, Davies, Craig Pty Ltd, has launched a comprehensive EBP and EWP selection guide...
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Mount Shop now in Wellington
Mount Shop has announced the opening of its new store in Lower Hutt, Wellington. The new store is located inside Hutt City Auto Parts, and is staffed by the same friendly faces: David, Craig and Alf.
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The world’s fastest woman biker
Eva Håkansson is the fastest woman motorcyclist in the world (270.224 mph top speed); what’s more amazing she did it on the world’s fastest motorcycle sidecar.
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Bosch push belt drives CVT growth
Continuously variable transmissions (CVT) are on the rise worldwide, offering an easier drive consuming up to seven percent less fuel, and  a quarter of all automatics used worldwide will soon feature continuously variable Transmissions.
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New Hella catalogue
The new Hella catalogue for Road Transport Lighting, Safety Lighting and Accessories is out now, and offers 362 pages with more than 2,000 products, 390 of them brand-new to the range.
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Volvo S60 V8 supercar debuts
Volvo Polestar Racing unveiled its Volvo S60 race car that will debut in the 2014 V8 Supercars Championship by driving it across the world’s most famous “coat-hanger” – the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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Special edition Disco
Land Rover has unveiled a new Discovery XXV Special Edition as a celebration of the 25th anniversary year of the original launch of its versatile family SUV.
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No flash for Aussies
Aussies are a conservative lot, at least when it comes to choosing the colour of our cars.
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Alfa supercar wins top award
The Alfa Romeo 4C has been named the “Most Beautiful Car of the Year 2013” at the 29th International Automobile Festival.
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S-Class & G-Class best
The Mercedes-Benz S-Class and the iconic G-Class off-road vehicle have been voted the best cars in their respective category by the readers of German car magazine "auto motor und sport" as part of an extensive reader survey.
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918 Hybrid even faster
Porsche has announced that its 918 Spyder hybrid supercar outperforms the company's previous, already-impressive, performance estimates.
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The Shaker returns
The SEMA Show in Las Vegas, saw the return of a legendary part of muscle car history – the ‘Shaker’ engine.
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Levorg debuts at Tokyo
Smaller than the current Legacy wagon, it fits into the Subaru model range between the Impreza and Legacy.
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X-LANDER WOWS CROWDS
The ambitious, playful looking X-LANDER show car is one of four concept vehicles recently shown by Suzuki at the Tokyo Motor Show .
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Murphy feels victory undeserved
Greg Murphy was an unusually subdued winner in the recent BNT V8 SuperTourer race at Hampton Downs.
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Nürburgring 918 Spyder record
The Porsche 918 Spyder recently became the first homologated road car to conquerthe 20.6-kilometre lap around the Nürburgring Nordschleife in less than seven minutes.
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BMW releases i8
The first plug-in all-wheel-drive hybrid vehicle from the BMW Group, the i8 is a 2+2-seater with LifeDrive architecture developed specifically for the BMW i brand with an aerodynamically groundbreaking body design and visionary interior design
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Gilmour pleased at result
“I’ve never been so excited to reach the end of a rally in eighth place,” was Emma Gilmour’s reaction to completing this weekend’s Wairarapa Rally, the final round of the New Zealand National Rally Championship.
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Elegant confidence enabled
Inspired by contemporary design as well as iconic elements from the past, the elegant new Volvo Concept Coupé is the first of a series of three concept cars that reveal the design possibilities created by the company’s new Scalable Product Archite
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