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Underground design for Jeeps
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
The Mopar Underground design team showcased six customised Jeep vehicles and Dodge trucks ocer Easter at the 43rd annual Moab Jeep Safari 2009 in Utah, USA.
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Land Rover updates RR, Sport, Discovery
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
A new Range Rover Sport and Discovery 4 were unveiled at the New York International Auto Show in April, together with changes to the iconic Range Rover.
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Hundinga is on the Way
Thursday, 23 April 2009
How many times do you wish your 4WD could turn into a boat and drive across a river or a lake?
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Audi Q5
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Every new 4WD that hits the market blurs the lines between on-roaders and off-roaders a little more. Although Audi has probably produced more 4WD vehicles than any of the “tough truck” makers, it...
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Adventure International, Adventure NZ
Kiwis Tackle Peking to Paris
Thursday, 23 April 2009
It’s a trip of a lifetime – and a bunch of Kiwis and their 4WDs are off on a “Journey through time” expedition to trace the route of the Peking to Paris Raid of 1907. Organised by Rally Tours NZ, the...
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Oddball to the Rescue
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
We as four-wheel drivers are constantly under attack from the media and certain segments of the community, usually for the anti-social behaviour of a few 4WD owners. But the upside is rarely reported...
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Hilux for Comfort
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
One of my favourite clips on You Tube is Jeremy Clarkson’s piece on his attempts to destroy a Toyota Hilux 4WD. Needless to say he has to set fire to it to administer the coup de grace, but prior to...
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Mustering Utes in the Country
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Where the heck is Waipiata? I guess to a North Islander it’s like Whangamomona to a South Islander - in the backblocks. But very different backblocks. It’s in the spacious Maniototo Plain near...
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Audi Q5
Thursday, 19 February 2009
It was only a matter of time before Audi produced a smaller 4WD than its enormous Q7.
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Project Re-A-Range update: Part Two
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Last month we left off with Project Re-A Range in the workshops of Heritage Mechanical Services where it was to get a new transfer case.
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Trucks stake their claim at Manukau
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
They didn’t manage the outright title this year, but off-road racing’s truck classes are now well established as a force in the national championship.
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Albanian Adventure
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
When you travel overseas and see cricket being played, you assume that country is probably civilised, with the possible exception of Australia of course.
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Defender SVX Hits NZ
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Land Rover has celebrated its 60th anniversary with a special edition of the iconic Defender, the SVX. While most of the 25,000 Defenders produced each year are working tools for everyone from...
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Taking your SUV off-road
Monday, 15 December 2008
It’s a fact of life that more and more people are swapping their “tough trucks” for what we like to call “recreational” 4WDs – also known as “softroaders” or SUVs – 4WDs without low ratio.
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ARB has it all
Monday, 15 December 2008
ARB is Australia’s largest manufacturer of 4WD accessories and exports to more than 100 countries throughout the world. ARB products are developed and tested in the Australian Outback, one of the...
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Converter in a can
Monday, 15 December 2008
While there are larger capacity inverters that will run higher current drawing tools and electrical equipment, the 120 W Power-Can from Projecta is one of the handiest stash-in-the-glove box...
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Deadwood Safari
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
The second Saturday in October saw the Cross Country Vehicle Club (Wellington) (CCVC) host the local round of the National Trials.
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Operation Waiouru
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Some of the best country for four wheel driving and scenery has to be in the Central North Island, more specifically the Army Training Grounds at Waiouru.
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Sweet Sorento
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Our long term test on the Kia Sorento Ltd is coming to an end – and there’ll be no crocodile tears when good old EFN leaves the office for good – they’ll be real ones.
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Short but Tough!
Thursday, 23 October 2008
One of the toughest events within the Australian winch challenge scene is the EFS Mini XI based at Land Cruiser Mountain Park in Queensland, Australia and run by David Metcalfe’s Xtreme 4x4 Sports...
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Dream come true
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Carl Flannery’s 1942 Ford Jeep is like that old ammo box you keep your tools in. The paint is wearing off in places and the primer and sometimes bare metal shows through. It’s a bit bashed here and...
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$3000 Rod Rebuild
Thursday, 23 October 2008
When Guyon Humm of Ashburton decided to get “something different” for his 4WDing, he little thought it would end up being so much work – or that there’d be such a beautiful end result.
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Tank Girl
Tuesday, 07 October 2008
Jennifer Bethell and her husband travelled extensively while living in the UK, returning two years ago to settle in Tauranga, NZ. While in the UK Jennifer worked for four years for the University of...
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Bain will reign
Tuesday, 07 October 2008
For the first time in the history of off-road racing in New Zealand, a production-class 4WD has taken the outright North Island title. Hamilton’s Maurice Bain, a 20 plus year veteran of the sport...
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Ayers Rock 'N Roll
Tuesday, 07 October 2008
The rhythmic, tortured pulsing of a didgeridoo met us as we clambered to the lookout point for our first glimpse of Ayers Rock, glowing golden in the late evening rays.
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