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Fred Alvrez

How an earth to start this? I've been car/bike/truck crazy since I was a teen. Like John, I had the obligatory Countach poster on the wall. I guess I'm more officially into classic cars than anything else - I currently have a '65 Sunbeam Tiger that left the factory the same day as I left the hospital as a newborn with my mother. How could I not buy that car? Recently my wife and I drove across the USA in a brand-new Dodge Challenger, and then shipped it home. You can read more on www.usa2nz.co.nz I'm also an Observer for the Institute of Advanced Motorists - trying to do my bit to make our roads safer.

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Road Trip

DriveLife readers may remember back in 2016, my wife and I were going to buy an old muscle car in the USA, drive it from LA to New York, and then ship it home.That didn’t quite go the way we planned. Thoughts of an old, mid-sixties muscle car overheating at the side of the road in the desert of New Mexico in the middle of summer...
SUV's & MPV's

It wasn’t released on April 1st, but the BMW M50d could have just as easily been an April Fool’s Joke. Four turbos? Surely not?It’s no joke. While the previous gen M50d had to make do with just three turbos, BMW decided it simply wasn’t enough, and added another one to the 3-litre straight six diesel motor that we already...
SUV's & MPV's

The whole CX range seems to be a winning recipe for Mazda; we love the CX-5, recently naming it “still the medium SUV King”, the CX-8 went down a treat with John, as did the CX-9 Takami.But what about the baby of the family, the CX-3? I must admit, it’s not a model I’ve spent much time with, but they sure are a popular small...
SUV's & MPV's

There’s a new Kia Rio in town, and at last it’s got some guts to go with the looks - and it needed it. When we tested the Rio Limited back in 2017, the 74kW motor and 4-speed automatic meant it was a car that would struggle everywhere.Not so with the new model – at least in the GT Line version. With its 1.0-litre, 3-cylinder...
Automotive News

When Holden New Zealand calls you up and says, “hey it’s been a year since the launch of the new Commodore. Do you want to come to Pukekohe racetrack and drive them around?”, there are two answers;      Yes       Hell yes!I went with the later, and flew up to Auckland for this event. It was going to be a...
Automotive News

A quiet achiever in the small hatchback market, the Focus has been with us for decades. It’s one of those cars you don’t notice, until you start to actually look for them – then they appear in numbers. Ford did have the previous version of the Endura available in New Zealand since early 2018, but those who knew the new model was...
Advice

We recently tested the Kona EV – a small electric SUV with a substantial battery capacity. Lots of people ask questions when we have an EV on test, popular ones are ‘how do you charge them’? And, ‘what does it cost’?So then - what’s the skinny on charging your electric car, big battery or small?Just like charging...
SUV's & MPV's

The Big Daddy of the X range of BMWs, the X5 has undergone a facelift for 2019, and has received some more tech.The X5 has been a great seller for BMW New Zealand. With half of X5 sales the base X30d model, happily this is the one BMW sent us to review.After having just got out of the all-new Audi Q8, can the X5 continue to keep...
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