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Daily Driven: bagged and tagged Mustang EcoBoost
2016 Ford Mustang EcoBoost View fullsize NZ Performance Car: Hi, Varun. How did you get into modifying cars?Varun: Hey, team. I wanted to
Cruise Mode: low-slung turbo beams Altezza
2003 Toyota Altezza (SXE10) View fullsize NZ Performance Car: Hi, Caleb. How did you get into the car scene, and what was the
Sonic Seven: Arnie Nguyen’s record-breaking RX-7
This is no ordinary RX-7, and with lineage back to the street-legal, strip-chomping peach-coloured Series 1 that clocked up flat 12s Words: Rotor
Strip Search: IHRA Tech Inspection
We follow the process involved in getting a dedicated drag car legal to race. It’s a lot more interesting than your daily-driver’s WOF
Weekly Motor Fix: ST-Hitec record-attempt R35
ST Hi-tec has never done things by halves, but when we caught wind of what a collaboration between them and Dodson Motorsport was looking to
Misconceptions of suspension
The world is riddled with false expertise surrounding suspension setups, so we turned to the masters at MCA Suspension in order to bust
Weekly Motor Fix: 2JZ-powered VZ Commodore wagon
It’s not every day that you catch something with a lion badge adorning the pages of NZ Performance Car, but when you spot a Holden
Flying V: Omori Factory-built R34 GT-R M-Spec Nür
V-Spec Performance’s M-Spec NÜr R34 delivers the perfect contradiction: road-going luxury and race-bred mechanicals sprinkled with a hearty serving from the Nismo catalogue
21 Midnights: 12a rotary crammed into a VW Beetle
A slammed, two-tone bug with a screaming rotary crammed into the back is the automotive embodiment of a complete scumbag who only
Tuning guide: how to modify your 1UZ-FE
Modifying your car can be a daunting task, what with so many products available on the market, and conflicting views about which ones are effective.
Kings of camshafts: Kelford Cams
Breaking out the magnifying glass and sifting through the spec list of almost any feature article of the piston variety found on the
100% hectic: NZBC Round Two at Taupo
Well, here it is. About time, too, seeing as the second round of the New Zealand Burnout Championship wrapped up on
Street fighting in Taupo
Mitsubishis and Subarus going head-to-head in four-wheel drive battle mode Words: Warren Sare Photos: Danny Wood View fullsize Back when
Nissan Motorsport bring back Calsonic and BRE liveries
We reported at the end of last month that the Supercars’ endurance season would be kicked off with this month’s Wilson Security Sandown
Liberty Walk working on Mustang widebody for larger crowds
Previously the domain of supercars and exotics, Liberty Walk kits are expanding out to the pony cars — yep, the Japanese tuning house