1964 Mercedes-Benz 230 SL – Pagoda
The now proud owner of this Mercedes-Benz 230 SL recounts the tale of how he finally got his dream ride ready and registered for life in New Zealand. Back in 2018, I wrote a list of classic cars that I thought I’d quite like to own. The 13 cars on it were a varied bunch; some of them weren’t even classics, like the Citroen C6 and Renault Avantime. In the mix was...
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Ross Bros Museum Cambridge – an incredible racing and muscle car collection
Sometimes you wonder what cars would say if they could talk, and that’s exactly what was on our mind during...
2007 Audi R8
Audi dived into new territory with its alloy R8, putting it on a footing with Porsche and Lamborghini. How does...
1991 Nissan Figaro
Nissan’s ‘Pike Cars’ were a quartet of dinky little wonders built in limited numbers that proved immensely popular. The Figaro...
1965 MG MGB Roadster
It would be hard to argue against the MGB being one of the most loved British cars ever. And after...
BMW M3 Group A – Schnitzer Motorsport
BMW has developed some of the most successful touring cars of any marque. Nothing epitomises its reputation for winning more...
1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT
Alfa Romeo’s Giulia Sprint GT is a sixties icon, and still a devilishly good looking coupe after all these years....
2004 Ford Focus RS
Ford’s RS badge took some time out in the late nineties but was revived when the company decided it needed a road car to replicate its WRC machine. The result was the first Focus RS. Think back to the Group A era of rallying and it was the road cars that came first. These were the homologation specials...
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NZ’s classic car sector is worth $11 billion, new survey suggests
A new survey by the NZ Federation of Motoring Clubs (FoMC) shows that the country's classic car sector has an...
1997 Nissan Skyline GT-R R33
The Nissan Skyline GT-R is a tuner’s dream, with its ability to deliver big horsepower and the capability to use...
1981 Ford Capri Zakspeed Group 5 – The Porsche Killer
The mad Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft series of the 1970s led to the development of some of the wildest tin-tops ever....
1975 Toyota Celica GTV Hardtop
The original Toyota Celica was a Japanese take on the pony car phenomenon sweeping the US. Here we detail a...
BMW M3 Sport Evolution vs Mercedes-Benz 190e Evolution II
What’s motorsport without its fierce rivalries? In Germany the brand tribalism centred around Mercedes-Benz and BMW. This pair of 1990s...
1984 Toyota Corolla Levin GT
Corolla loosely translates to crown, so it’s fitting Japan’s Drift King, Keiichi Tsuchiya, used an AE86 initially to hone his...
