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Adventure NZ

Pouto Light House weekend

Friday, 16 November 2018

After doing a presentation on 4X4Explorer to the Auckland 4WD club

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New and tested 4WDs

Home on the Ranger

Friday, 16 November 2018

Right. I know. All you really want to know about the new MY (short for Model Year btw) 19 Ford Ranger line-up is this, right?

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News and General

Spray and walk away….impressed!

Friday, 16 November 2018

Want to save thousands re-spraying your knockabout 4x4? Then you might like to follow Cunning Hack columnist Richard Soult’s lead.

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News and General

Great Scott

Friday, 16 November 2018

Been to the cinema yet to see Born Racer, aka ‘the Scott Dixon biopic?’

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Video Content

SUV Tyre Video Review - Grabber GT

Tuesday, 13 November 2018

We video review a newly released tyre from General Tire, the Grabber GT which is now available in New Zealand.

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Video Content

2018 Skoda Karoq - Video Road Report

Monday, 29 October 2018

We video test the 2018 Skoda Karoq.

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Video Content

New SUV Test Video - 2018 Mazda CX-8

Thursday, 25 October 2018

Mazda’s new CX-8 SUV is designed to blur the boundaries between work and play...

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Video Content

2018 SEAT Ateca FR - Video Road Report

Tuesday, 23 October 2018

This is a five-seat rocket-ship...

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News and General

Sky TV’s the limit!

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

The news that local pay-TV outfit Sky TV has failed in its bid to keep Formula 1 on its roster should come as no surprise.

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Motor Sports

Uttridge does the double

Thursday, 18 October 2018

It’s the ultimate ‘double crown’ of the NZ offroad racing scene and it is now Bob Uttridge’s.

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Motor Sports

Top event in Top of the South

Thursday, 18 October 2018

This was the ‘home’ round for our loyal Superwinch Mainland Challenge reporter Vicky Newport…meaning she, daughter Megan and hubby Scotty were busier than ever!

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News and General

Rooftop tents & awnings gather favour

Thursday, 18 October 2018

You can’t go anywhere on or off the road these days without seeing a well set up 4x4 rocking a Rooftop Tent and/or some sort of quick fold-out awning

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4WD Accesories

Ironman 4x4 Monster winches

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Ironman 4x4 has totally redesigned and upgraded its range of monster winches, including stronger motors, heavy duty casings, synthetic ropes, competition style solenoids – and they are the only win

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Adventure NZ

Far North Beach Exploring

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Story and photos by Gary Cooper

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Adventure NZ

The Waikaia Bush Road

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Story & photos by Richard Soult, 4x4Explorer

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Adventure NZ

Welcome return for Winter Woolies

Thursday, 18 October 2018

The Achilles Winter Woolies trip was back on the tagalong calendar this year after a break due to the illness and passing of Craig Mott, one of the main organisers from the Desert Defenders Off Road...

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News and General

A true ‘Tuff Truck’

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

The Mercedes G-Professional is no compromise hard-core commercial workhorse. Perfect, in other words, for a serious workout in the hands of long-time NZ4WD magazine tester Ashley Lucas.

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New and tested 4WDs

Island life

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Holden chose the (relative) wilds of Great Barrier Island for the local reveal of its new Colorado Z71 Xtreme.

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News and General

Indoor dining on the road

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

This month’s cunning hack came about for a number of reasons...

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News and General

On-line abuse

Monday, 17 September 2018

You can’t seem to go anywhere these days without (sometimes literally as happened to me the other day) walking into someone with their head down scanning their mobile phone for the latest tweet, or

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Motor Sports