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Possum-killers: Narva Platinum Plus 130
With hundreds of different products thrust under your nose on a daily basis, we don’t blame you if you feel a little dubious
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Running the numbers: Rod Harvey runs a five!
Aucklander Rod Harvey may be a V8 guy at heart, but for many years now he’s been campaigning a six-cylinder 2JZ-powered Toyota Celica.
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Rolling with the homies: Chrome 2017
Utter the word ‘Chrome’ in a crowded room and watch anyone that has ever sat behind the wheel of a remotely modified car
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What model needs a factory restoration programme next?
With the seemingly endless harping on about governments hoping to see their respective countries free of internal combustion vehicles by 20XX, and the fact that to survive
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The inner-workings of a Formula One water-to-air intercooler
The harsh nature of high-end racing is that if you ain’t delivering, money will dry up fast — which is what led to the the
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Tuning Japanese: JDM Travel 101
Aaron has teased us with the wonders of JDM tuning culture for the past seven years, now we pin him down to his
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Engineering the world’s fastest WRX
With 19 years of very successful race history between Subaru and UK motorsport legends Prodrive, it would come at no surprise to anyone that Prodrive
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Pandem the world: Kei Miura’s take on a Datsun 620
Kei Miura — the artistic automotive genius behind TRA Kyoto/Pandem/Rocket Bunny — is revered for his blister-style overfenders, ducktail spoilers, and appreciation of all things
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The art of driving: Ayrton Senna heel-toeing an NSX-R
Normally we’d dribble out a whole load of information that lead into a sweet video here, but on this occasion we really need not say
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Hot box: burnouts and hard-parking at WinterJam
You have to be brave to book an event in winter, particularly one that revolves around a hardpark and burnouts, but seeing over 5000 punters
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Ridiculousness: the original PPRE-built six-rotor RX-4
“The toughest import street car ever built!” View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize After 30-plus years of people worldwide building heavily modified Mazda
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Advanced ageing: how to create a faux patina
We find out how to fool people into thinking your brand-new paint job is not so new after all View fullsize The finishing
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Thrash test: 2017 Honda Civic Type R
We got our hands on the only 2017 Honda Civic Type R (FK8) currently in New Zealand for the first Australasian road test
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Bio Gains: making the switch to ethanol
So you’re thinking about filling up with ethanol? Stop: there are a few things to consider first View fullsize View fullsize We have all
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Square Dance: the ’80s have never looked fresher
This TE71 Trueno proves the ’80s have never looked fresher View fullsize Across the 120-odd years the car has been driving the planet’s