Cars

FJ fury: FJ20ET-powered Datsun 1600

  View fullsize A lot of the old-school cars we feature in NZ Performance Car magazine are of the rotary-powered variety, and it seems piston-powered classics

Whipped Up: the uprise of the JZX

  View fullsize It’s fairly safe to say that in New Zealand we’re used to drifting and modifying Nissans. For some reason, a lot of us

Tuned for the touge: Honda S2000

  View fullsize There are a ton of people who have been influenced by the latest stance movement, and have built their rides to sit

K swapped: EF3 K-powered Civic

  “The EF might not be the most desirable Civic platform, but that hasn’t stopped Ollie Mcchesney building one of the country’s wildest Hondas from

Daily Driven: Troy’s JZX100

We don’t only feature fully modified vehicles in NZ Performance Car magazine — the mildly modified daily drivers get a look in too! It doesn’t matter what

Weekly Motor Fix: Mazda RX-3 coupe

Are Japanese cars from the early ’70s destined to become the next big thing when it comes to classic car collectability? A few years ago

Scrapyard Gains: Subaru WRX GC8

  View fullsize This month we will cover what we think is one of the best budget performance cars in terms of overall power, grip,

The ultimate weekend warriors

  View fullsize Getting out on your local track at the weekend is a great way to blow off some steam, forget the stresses of

Tuning Japanese: normal is overrated

View fullsize The fine line between insanity and genius is blurry in Osamu Kawashima’s world. You only have to look at his infamous oni-camber Toyota Celica

Bionic Behemoth: 2015 Lexus RC-F

  “Staffer Rene gets his hands on the latest performance coupe to come from the Lexus stables — the Lexus RC-F, a 470hp V8 monster”