Might the just-launched 308 GTi be trumped here by an even more electrifying edition? Peugeot NZ isn’t saying ‘non’ in respect to a ripper hybrid racer in the wings.
They’re calling it the ‘lighthouse model for a new Lexus’ – and it’s set to shine on the Kiwi market in just over a year, perhaps making a racing start.
Hyundai New Zealand suggests customers who bought the latest Tucson before it adopted an engineering revision that has lifted the model’s safety score won’t be left feeling shortchanged.
The brand that claims to have been born on the battlefields of dubbya-dubbya deuce is creating a series of special editions to celebrate its beginnings.
A more steroidal version of the stampeding SQ5 is set to keep Audi’s medium crossover relevant until the new-generation replacement comes in early 2017.
ONE of Europe’s pioneering electric drives seems set to at last plug into the New Zealand motoring scene, in its original hatch form as well as a more recent van version.
The next Lexus performance sedan will present its race circuit breeding in fitting style by taking an active role in the upcoming international motor-racing series
Those Sprint-badged special versions of the XR8 and XR6 Turbo that will see out the Falcon in its final year of production might very much live up to their name in respect to availability.
Three rounds of performance Golf – a giant-killer wagon, a birthday celebration GTi and an associated electric-assisted model – are set play a key role in helping restore any lustre lost from Volkswagen’s local reputation as result of diesel-gate
Kiwis didn’t seem to mind it so much, but the international response was damning – so Toyota NZ has killed the television/internet ‘Call of the Wild’ ad central to the sales campaign for the new Hilux. Where to now?
TWO Hyundai projects of certain New Zealand interest, an electrified sedan and determination to develop Genesis into a full-blown luxury division, seem likely to discussed at a brand summit this weekend being attended by the brand’s top man here.
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