 Lake it or Not
Not only is the Rotorua region renowned for its bubbling hot mud and steaming geysers – not to mention, in places, an all-pervading stink of “bad eggs” – but it’s surrounded by a plethora of lakes, big and small, 12 in total. We decided to take Volkswagen’s latest Touareg to check some of them out.
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 Mitchell's a 4WD Star
Mitchell Seymour is a young man with a great 4WD future ahead of him, being the NZ4WDA Young Person of the Year (see also page 63) as was well as the youngest person to be invited to compete in the Suzuki Extreme 4WD Cup, a competition being set up especially for television and featuring the top 30 competitors from the national trials.
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 Get a Grip!
An interesting Aussie invention came our way the other day, and we decided to give it a good test.
Called the MaxTrax, it is based on sand tracks which have been used by the military for years – and which feature on many pictures of cross-desert 4WD expedition vehicles.
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 Readers in the Forest
Anzac weekend 2008 was the perfect weekend for a group of keen 4WD drivers to challenge themselves and their vehicles in the Whirinaki forest near Minginui, 90 km south-east of Rotorua.
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 Humm.. Let's see now
Do you know the original M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle - HMMWV or Humvee as it became known, given all those letters to remember – the military vehicle which spawned the Hummer series of civilian off-roaders, was originally designed for Europe?
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 Adventures on Wellington's South Coast
One of the biggest frustrations for many 4WD owners, especially in the larger cities, is not having anywhere to go off-road.
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