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A complete guide to building your next street-car showstopper: source and import
View fullsize Over the following few months we will dive headfirst into the mystical art of building a street car, to bring you a

A complete guide to building your next street car showstopper: engine internals
View fullsize Over the next few months, we’re diving head first into the mystical art of building a street car to bring you a

Sell your kidney, Toyota’s US headquarters is up for grabs
View fullsize Three years after Toyota announced that it would be selling its 1.2-million-square-feet worth of office and industrial space — situated on 110

Mechanical masterpieces: the next-gen cars of D1NZ
“We take a look inside the national drifting championships stable of next-gen weapons” View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize We

Toyota the comeback kid: Jari-Matti Latvala wins his fourth Rally Sweden
View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Toyota headquarters is surely the place to be right now as they celebrate the Rally Sweden victory —

Daniel Currie extends lead in Southern Drift Series
View fullsize Summer is back, and that can only mean one thing — motorsport events filled with hot cabins, sunburnt spectators, and a damn


Grand final: vote for the Castrol Edge Performance Car of the Year!
We have put the power in your hands all year, calling for votes on who most deserves to go head-to-head for the chance to

Who’s your NZ Performance Car Ultimate Demon Babe?
You, our faithful readers, have waited month on month for each new stunner of a Demon Babe to appear as the latest issue of NZ

One man and his driveway: Leadfoot Festival 2017
The coolest driveway party of the year, Rod Millen’s annual Leadfoot Festival once again awoke the quiet seaside town of Hahei over Waitangi weekend (February

The 7th wonder: Mad Mike’s ‘MADBUL’ FD returns
“I went to him with the idea of doing the RX-3 front swap on the FD. His response was ‘Kakkoi’, which translates to ‘cool’

2017 4&Rotary Nationals: the drags at Meremere
View fullsize This is where the action happens! Drag racing in the upper North Island rests at one sole venue — Meremere Dragway —

The ultimate North vs South enduro-battle
View fullsize New Zealand’s largest automotive distributor, Nichibo, is set to continue its support of the North Island Endurance Series into the 2017/2018 season.

The nitty gritty of nano coating
The first thing anyone notices on our cars is the paint and its condition. Which isn’t always good, as in New Zealand it takes a

The awards: 2017 V 4&Rotary Nationals
Nationals is that date everyone in the car world works towards on the calendar, it serves as a great deadline motivator — especially two weeks