Emma Gilmour is set for a full ride in Greenland. The Dunedin rally driver had been named as a reserve for the Veloce Racing team at the Extreme E event. At the end of this month she will step into the car at the Arctic X Prix, fil; Read More
Cromwell driver Ari Pettigrew, in a borrowed 4WD Ford Fiesta Pronto, won the Eastern Southland Car Club’s Catlins Rallysprint by the barest of margins on Saturday. Pettigrew set a time on his last run of the day that pipped Andrew Graves (; Read More
The cat is out of Ford’s bag, and it is a Puma that’s good enough to claw its way to the top of its class with on-trend styling, zippy performance and superb handling. While the Puma name is new to our market, Ford has dabbled with feline ; Read More
ORETI Park Speedway has had a mortgage on the Youth Solo Rider of the Year trophy for a long time, and this year’s Speedway New Zealand Awards recently held in Christchurch crowned yet another local rider with the honour. In the past, Hayd; Read More
Copied from the body style of a 1923 Ford T Bucket, Paul Richardson’s hot rod is a car of many parts. Mr Richardson bought the engine about 20 years ago, and admits he has pretty much rebuilt it. “Everything’s changed — the engine,; Read More
An infamous Central Otago road has again taken the title of the country's most dangerous road, according to an Australian survey. Skippers Canyon Rd may not feature on many lists of fatal crashes, but it is a white knuckle ride that not ma; Read More
After last year’s ‘‘boomer’’ event, the Catlins Coast Rally will take a break. It was the 20th time the Eastern Southland Car Club had organised the rally. The club will organise the Rosebank Lodge Catlins Rallysprint instead this ; Read More
Southland teenager Cormac Buchanan has clinched his first podium finish in the Honda British Talent Cup. The 14-year-old rider finished third overall at the Knockhill Circuit, in Scotland. It proved a successful weekend for Buchana; Read More
Dollar-sign-shaped mirrors, flame door handles and a Tarzan-sounding horn. Dunedin man Peter Wilson said his 1949 Buick Super was "something special". It was one of the nearly 200 cars on display at the New Zealand Hot Rod Associat; Read More
A new Government subsidy has encouraged Dunedin motorists to show plenty of interest in electric vehicles in the first week. The Government introduced a subsidy from July 1 to make new EVs thousands of dollars cheaper and petrol and diesel; Read More
