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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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Audi

• Audi releases the all-electric Audi e-tron 50 to sit alongside the Audi e-tron 55• Two electric motors with total power of 230 kW and 540 Nm of torque• Lithium-ion battery offers over 300km* range• Arriving in New Zealand in March 2020, priced from $134,900.We like the Audi e-tron, after going to the launch. Shortly,...
Jaguar

New Zealand motorsport enthusiasts will now have the opportunity to view the new Jaguar XE SV Project 8, apparently the world's fastest production four-door sedan, which has arrived in the country.With a starting price of $350,000, each of the 300 limited edition vehicles are hand-assembled and, have been described as the...
Ford

Arriving in mid-2020, Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid van delivers 56 km zero-emission NEDC driving range, and more than 500 km NEDC total range using 1.0‑litre EcoBoost petrol engine range extenderAdvanced plug-in hybrid architecture features 13.6 kWh battery that can be charged with mains electricity for zero-emission...
Road Trip

Day 36Today was going to be a Bucket List kind of day, especially for my wife. She’s a Stephen King nutter, I mean a Stephen King fan, and has been since she was 13 years-old. He was the reason that she started writing, so when she heard about the ‘SK Tour’ in Bangor, it was added to our Must-Do list.We got picked up at...
Automotive News

Three electric vehicles are among the 10 finalists for New Zealand's most prestigious automotive award.Candidates to secure this year's New Zealand Car of the Year are, in alphabetical order:Audi e-tronFord FocusHolden AcadiaHyundai Santa FeJaguar I-PaceMazda 3Mercedes GLEPeugeot 508Tesla Model 3Toyota RAV4The e-tron, I-Pace...
Road Trip

Day 29The drive to the car ferry that will take us from Orient Point, New York to New London, Connecticut was an easy 45-minute drive, all the way east on Long Island. We spied the Atlantic Ocean – the first ocean we’ve seen since leaving LA, 3 weeks ago.Boarded and readyGoodbye, New York stateArriving in New...
Road Trip

Day 22It was only a few hour’s drive to Bowling Green, Kentucky, to visit the National Corvette Museum. From the outset of the planning of this road trip, I wanted to go to this museum, regardless if we bought a Corvette, or not.Some of you may remember in 2015 when a huge sinkhole appeared, and sucked down 8...
Road Trip

Day 15Leaving Albuquerque, we had one mission today; get to Amarillo by 6pm for a horse trek ‘with real cowboys’ that we’ve booked in. Since it’s only 500km or so, that should be easy and means we can take our time and scope out a few of the car museums in some of the old Route 66 towns that are off the interstate.We hit...
SUV's & MPV's

How do you improve on something that’s already very good? It’s a question I often ask myself, as we mourn the passing of a certain model that is loved by all who drive it. Just how much more can you do to develop a car to exceed what it can already do?Mercedes-Benz took that bull by the horns, and have given us a new GLE...
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