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Highway runner: bagged and boosted S2000
Honda really missed the chance to produce the best special edition of all time, so Matthew Holt has gone and built it for

Tyre buying: click, collect, shred
Buying tyres online made easy View fullsize Money don’t come easy, and when you’ve worked hard for them dollars, blowing them on the

Wazoo Gazoo: Toyota go one-two for first ever Le Mans victory
Only the most determined souls and sturdiest cars can claim that they won — or even survived, for that matter — the running

Jun Imai Era ends at Hot Wheels
View fullsize Even the most casual Hot Wheels collectors would have undoubtedly purchased one of the many recreations of Japanese car culture in

Hyper stylish: 1UZ-stuffed MX-5
Mixing subtle aero aesthetics with the bite of a four-litre heart, Philip Huynh’s ‘Hyper Roadster’ is every bit as rapid as its name

Lemon Party: 24 hours of mayhem
View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize As of 2017, New Zealand was ranked fourth on the global scale of vehicles

Enthusiast essentials: ESAB Rebel MIG and Sentinel helmet package
Weave layer View fullsize Having the practical skills to lay down that weld porn ain’t mean much when your gear isn’t up to

Enthusiast essentials: Razor 200 AC/DC TIG welder
The dime stacker View fullsize Ideal for the garage handyman to the professional welder, the Razor 200 AC/DC TIG welder is a single-phase

Lethal weapon: immaculate street-legal S13 drifter
Weekend warrior: 1991 Nissan Silvia (S13) View fullsize Name: Chevenne Hassan // Age: 23Location: Christchurch // Occupation: Workshop coordinator NZ Performance Car: Hi, Chevenne. Sweet S13

Bump and grind: Master Mechanics’ turbo rotary-powered burnout minitruck
You may recall seeing a 13B-powered and bagged B2000 in this very section back in issue No. 242, with an owner by the

Street spirit: flavour-packed street shark 180SX
No matter how many flavours of 180SX you’ve come across, you won’t’ve seen one quite as slick as Charlie’s View fullsize Everyone has

Shake & Bake: giant-killer S15
When Carl Thompson decided to get serious and enter D1NZ, he knew that he didn’t need to reinvent the wheel to build a

Dort Scort: milimetre perfect Honda-powered Escort
We all have build ideas burning away at the back of our minds, but it’s not often that we have the impetus to

Car spotting: Childish Gambino — This Is America
View fullsize While the non-car interested members are currently imploding over the symbolism-charged music video dropped by hip hop artist Childish Gambino (Aka

Bolt banter: how to lock tie your bolts
Keep your fasteners in place with an age-old racer trick View fullsize No matter whether your car is a full-blown racer, a weekend