Classics

Nissan is re-stoking the zed fire with the recent reveal of the Z Proto. Here we look back on an...

Alfa Romeo's Alfasud was the firm’s answer to a burgeoning small car market. The firm created a character but one...

Before the Defender, there was the Series III. And this Camel tribute has had a colourful history. In the realm...

We detail a well used and cherished example of the Toyota Celica GT-Four, A.K.A, the big cheater. To many, the...

The materialisation of an alfisti’s love can take many forms. For the author, it’s a 155 supertourer that he put...

Chevrolet introduced a sport sedan to its line-up in 1956, a shape the owner of this example reckons to be...

All car makers have a model that put them on the map and for Honda that was the civic. It...

Jeepers is what they call aficionados of the long-lived off-road icon. And kiwi Jeeper, Bryan Williams, has a shed that...

That would have to be brazil, which became the last nation to build Volkswagen’s iconic van. The final ones made...

One of Skoda’s cuter cars is the Felicia, the convertible stablemate of the firm’s mainstream Octavia. We track down one...

We revisit Motorcycle Mecca, the great collection of two-wheelers in Invercargill. With the site having been expanded, it’s worthy of...

The Torana XU-1 was a bit of a gamble on holden’s part as it entered a David and Goliath battle...

We venture south to Invercargill to revisit one of the country’s best automotive museums, Bill Richardson Transport World. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxASmkf6FqM Bill...

George Begg was a good southern man whose engineering skills saw him become one of new zealand’s most prominent race...

In the car sphere, the letter ‘R’ brings with it a certain expectation. R is for race. We delve into...

When Holden released the FB range in 1960, its mechanicals dated back to the mid-1950s. Its styling even looked like...

When Kumeu cabinetmaker, Steve Shafe, first spied a Cadillac sporting GM’s ‘flat-top’ roofline design, he knew he’d found a new...

No car embodies the American dream like a 1959 Cadillac. We look at GM design leader Harley Earl’s Swansong vehicle....

Before Ford merged its two luxury divisions in 1958 - Continental and Lincoln - the latter had a quick growth...

With the demise of actual Holden Special Vehicles, those built in the mid-2000s era of the Aussie muscle car wars...