10 Year Plan: Rob Stewart’s 440kW Evo VI
7 April 2020
What do you do when your Evo I of nearly a decade disappears at the hands of a thief and is never seen
What do you do when your Evo I of nearly a decade disappears at the hands of a thief and is never seen
Too often, a car build becomes a victim of its own evolution. Starting without a plan risks an aesthetic with no real flow
Meet the wildest import drag car to come out of New Zealand in recent years — and it’s about to set Meremere on fire!
View fullsize World Import record: 5.55 at 254mph (409kph) We finally got to see a 5.50 from an import in 2019, run by a racer
View fullsize In a field of much newer, far bigger-budget cars, Chris Henderson and his Midway Motors LS-powered AE86 were the underdog that
View fullsize Name: Brooke Burmester // Age: 20 // Location: Christchurch // Occupation: Sales NZ Performance Car: Hi, Brooke. Tell us how you
View fullsize Name: Dominic Griffin // Age: 24 // Location: Tauranga // Occupation: Electrician NZ Performance Car: Hi, Dom. Can you recall when
View fullsize It’s been a few years since we got behind the wheel of Honda’s latest R-badge offering, but for 2020 the model
The 4 & Rotary Nationals has a new home, but the party is still as good as ever View fullsize For as long
View fullsize For a good 40-odd years, Toyota Racing Development (TRD) has been Toyota’s performance division, supplying uprated parts and top-spec trims on
View fullsize It may not get a letter from the queen, but automaker Mazda celebrated its 100th anniversary in typical Japanese style with
While most of us dream of winning anything with the word ‘championship’ in it, former WRC driver Hayden Paddon has made it abundantly
View fullsize When we last caught up with Nick Reiri, he’d just run the fastest pass of the event at the 2019 4&Rotary
Import drag racing stalwart Azhar Bhamji has taken aim at running mid eights with his street legal Mazda R100 and has commissioned a
View fullsize The months are sure whizzing by as our May / June deadline looms closer. With each passing day, progress on the
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