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Daily Driven: SSR MX-5
View fullsize 1993 Mazda MX-5Name: Daniel Heaphy // Age: 24Location: Auckland // Occupation: Sales at BNT View fullsize NZ Performance Car: Hi, Daniel. How did you wind
The Snowball Effect: too-clean C35 drifter
A car build never takes a linear path, and, as Dan Walsh found out with his once daily-driven C35, it can get out
Weekend Warrior: TE71 battler
View fullsize 1980 Toyota Trueno (TE71)Name: John Franich // Age: 28Location: Auckland // Occupation: Panel shop foreman NZ Performance Car: Hi, John. TE71s are precious metal these
Cruise Mode: bagged E28
View fullsize 1984 BMW 520i E28 Name: Heino Wendzich // Age: 25Location: Auckland // Occupation: Director, Autostance NZ Performance Car: Hi, Heino. How’d you come to own
One Bad Motherf#*ker: Quad-rotor FD RX-7
Lock your girl’s DMs, because Fritz Leaning is bringing the heat to a street near your house with his 400kW carby-fed quad-rotor View
Enthusiast Essentials: all your must-haves from NZ Performance Car and NZV8
With such a huge range of cars found in our motoring titles — be it NZV8 or NZ Performance Car — it’s pretty
Honda Civic Type R turbo crate motor??
We recently had the opportunity to get behind the wheel of New Zealand’s first Honda Civic Type R turbo (FK8) and besides the
California love: Cany Customs x Wrap God Itasha wrap day
Here to capture the local car scene from a different perspective, meet NZ Performance Car’s Southern-Californian import Steven Plascencia — based out of
Rotor Pulse: bringing the ruckus in the south
Club hangs with the lads from Rotor Pulse at the 2016 4 & Rotary South Island Champs View fullsize Part of the reason
Build ups: Datsun 1200 coupe packin’ heat
We don’t just feature completed cars, sometimes the coolest stuff can be found in the under construction section. Meet the tubbed, dumped, and
The ultimate engine swap? Mugen-built Honda F1 V10 for sale
As we’ve come to learn over recent months, while us mere mortals look upon F1 components like pieces of alien tech that we’ll
Obsessive speed: New Zealand’s fastest R35 GT-R
Claiming you have the fastest R35 GT-R in the country might seem bold, but holding records in three separate disciplines is the kind
Cruise mode: southern-class Hakosuka
View fullsize NZ Performance Car: Hi, James. You’ve owned and imported a lot of cars through your business. What drew you to the
Living the scale life: AUTOart 1:18 Rocket Bunny and RWB models (WIN)
The modern age that we live in can often mean that sacrifices have to be made and this usually means things that were
Cross coding: dual-discipline Hachiroku
Simon Urquhart is proving that you can have your cake and eat it too, with his multi-sport AE86 View fullsize Without a doubt,