View fullsize Owner: Sam McGillLocation: AucklandOccupation: Navy able marine technician (electrical) NZPC: Hey, Sam. You don’t see many people daily driving an old-school Japanese
View fullsize Owner: Amy FrazerLocation: Christchurch Occupation: Nurse NZPC: Hey Amy, great to see yet another extremely clean girl-built S15. How long have you
“Daily driving a Honda is not an uncommon practice but, when it’s a boosted B18CR EK sedan throwing out 260kW at the wheels, that’s
View fullsize NZPC: Hi, Justin. That’s a pretty rad Civic you’ve built — what made you choose a Honda chassis?Justin: It was originally my
View fullsize The drifting sessions were a popular part of the track day and what would drifting be without the presence of a Nissan
An icon of icons, the E30 M3 touring car is one of the all-time greats — and we’re lucky here in New Zealand that, on
Among the hundreds of cars that had swarmed the grounds of Levels [Timaru International Motor Raceway], we couldn’t help but spy a lonely old Datsun
We don’t only feature fully modified vehicles in NZ Performance Car magazine — the mildly modified daily drivers get a look in too! It
As we mentioned in the track gallery/wrap-up post from the recent V 4&Rotary Nationals South Island Champs, the south has a firm grip on the
“Forget your K-swap; Mohammed’s EG Civic packs one of New Zealand’s highest-power naturally aspirated B18C engines — proving that old tech is still the
“When building a tough Evo for the street, few delve the depths of insanity that Peter Kearney excavated with his 527-kilowatt Evo VII” View
Time waits for no man, and when putting together a project, things tend to, more often than not, drag on a little longer than expected.
The mini-trucking scene, more than any other facet of the car world, embraces the construction side of a project. Showing off your half-completed ride and
Not long ago NZ Performance Car ran a feature on the history of the WRX in celebration of the model’s 25th birthday, but we found
If you have been to a burnout comp in the upper North Island in the past 10 years, then chances are you may have seen
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