New car sales

Car sales hit all-time record – more growth yet, say big-wigs

January 10, 2017 by Alastair Sloane

What price new vehicle registrations in New Zealand in 2017 topping 150,000 units? The numbers in 2016 ended up at 146,753, an all-time high and up 9.5 per cent up on the previous best, the 134,041 registered in 2015. Motoring industry executives believe there is still room for growth. The market has gone through three years of record numbers and many believe it will keep … [Read more...] about Car sales hit all-time record – more growth yet, say big-wigs

Demand for rental cars helps push new vehicle sales through the roof

November 9, 2015 by Alastair Sloane

A huge leap in demand for rental cars going into the summer tourist market helped new vehicle sales in New Zealand last month become the strongest October on record. Sales totaled 12,684 units, made up of 9636 passenger cars and 3048 light commercials. Rentals – cars and commercials – accounted for 2955 of those, a whopping 212 per cent up on the monthly average among the … [Read more...] about Demand for rental cars helps push new vehicle sales through the roof

If you are in a position to shell out upwards of NZ$600,000 for the 60^thanniversary Porsche 911 S/T or optional Porsche 911 S/T Heritage, you’ll no doubt want the signature titanium watch that goes with it. That’s how Porsche figures it anyway. Or, if you want the watch you’ll need to get the car. Both the car and the watch are limited to 1963 units, the year the original 911 model broke cover. The watch – Chronograph 1 911 S/T and Chronograph 1 911 S/T Heritage – and the car carry matching edition numbers. The watch is priced at $US13,500, or around $NZ22,200. The car, says Porsche NZ, starts at $NZ608,000. A “strictly limited number” will go into production for NZ early next year.

Eight European Union countries are pushing to weaken new EU emissions limits for cars, saying they are overly ambitious and unrealistic for carmakers to hit. The eight countries – France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia – said in a joint paper that parts of the proposed Euro 7 regulation, including curbs on exhaust pipe emissions, should be scrapped entirely. They said the limits would force carmakers to invest in improving exhaust emissions performance, money which would be better spent on developing zero-emission vehicles. Taken together, the countries would have enough votes to block the proposal.

A go-anywhere EV concept for the US military uses an onboard 12kW diesel generator to top up the batteries on the move. The all-wheel-drive has 800-volt technology and a 200kWh battery pack to power three electric motors, two in the rear and one up front. Claimed output is 745kW/15,590Nm, or 1000hp and 11,500 ft-lb of torque. The four-seater was developed by the defence division of General Motors and is based on the platform of the Hummer SUV. It rides on Fox performance shock absorbers and 37-inch tyres and comes with “exceptional” approach and departure angles for off-road mobility. Maximum range using the generator to keep things ticking over is said to be around 500km.

The outside temperature in Midland, Texas, was 40.5C when staff at the local office of the US National Weather Service set out to show the cabin of a closed car can literally get baking hot in summer. They mixed up a batch of chocolate chip cookies and laid them on the car’s dashboard – the surface of which showed a temperature of 87.7C. A little over four hours later the cookies were ready to eat. “Even though ours weren’t golden brown, we can confirm that they are done and delicious,” the staff wrote on Facebook.

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