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4WD Accesories
Looking after your ride
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Most 4WDs do double duty – or more. They fit the Kiwi lifestyle like no other vehicle and as a result most of us use them for work and play.
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Adventure NZ
West Coast Caper
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
The race was on… well sort of…ish. We hit the servo at Wanaka to fill up and grab a medicinal pie then set off towards Lake Hawea and over the Haast Pass arriving just before 9.00pm.
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Products
Load distribution and trailer sway
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Many of us know it as ‘fishtailing’. Trailer sway is one of the most frightening and challenging driving issues to deal with.
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Products
When towing goes wrong
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Four-wheel drives are now the preferred weapon for towing caravans, trailers, boats.
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Supplied Content
Smart Throttle controller
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
These things are all the rage these days – an EliteDrive Smart Throttle Controller is one of the best ways to get optimised performance and economy from the engine of any vehicle. 
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New and tested 4WDs
Reasons to be cheerful
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Even as a massive rain storm lashed across the upper North Island and the clouds of yet another Covid lockdown rolled toward the nation, there was something exciting in the driveway: LDV’s new T60
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Supplied Content
Always use protection outdoors
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
There’s a growing trend among the off-road fraternity to protect their vehicles’ seats with heavy duty seat covers suited to the rugged work and play Kiwis love so much.
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New and tested 4WDs
Defender ‘tribute’ packs a wallop
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Upgrades, tributes, restorations. Land Rover’s Defender still casts a mighty shadow across the 4WD landscape.
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Toughen up your 4WD
Sunday, 05 September 2021
Toughen up your 4WD with Raptor tough and tintable coating.
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Motor Sports
Off-road racing resurgence gathers pace
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
The long shadow of Covid-19 stopped New Zealand off-road racing in its tracks last year. Clubs cancelled events, drivers cancelled vehicle builds, uncertainty reigned.
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Weekend drive
Exploring the Northern Wairarapa
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
A couple of spare autumn days were a good opportunity to get in another overnight trip before the winter weather closed in.  
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Adventure International
The ‘Oxford in NZ’ files...Wheels at Wanaka
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Having immersed himself in promoting the presence of the reborn and repurposed Series 1 Land Rover, known as Oxford, Auckland-based marque stalwart Kevin Isemonger wasn’t really looking forward to
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4WD Accesories
Don’t settle for the same old bull(bar)
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
AFN founded its Portugal operation in 1995 to supply vehicle protection equipment for their military and the United Nations.
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4WD Accesories
Superchips NZ Ltd
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Superchips NZ ‘fine-tunes’ your vehicle’s ECU to optimise the engine’s ability to produce more power, torque, and improved economy.  
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New and tested 4WDs
Taking to D trees in a new D-Max
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
First off, a day out at Fieldays with an off-road demonstration, then a few hours during the working week in a purpose-built playground on Auckland’s wild west coast a week later, oh yes, this i
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Adventure NZ
When half a day turns into two
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Queueing up in Picton or Wellington for the Inter-island ferry has to mark the beginning of the greatest adventure any Kiwi Overland enthusiast could have.
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4WD Accesories
Khaya by Alu-Cab – the roof top tent evolved
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
From humble beginnings – keeping intrepid free campers safe at night from ground-based predators across the vast savannah grasslands of southern Africa from the early 1970s – until here in New Zeal
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Products
Yakima takes roof top tent to new heights
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Every day we realise more and more it’s all about that feeling of boundless freedom. The ability to look up at the starry sky, detached from all constraints of everyday life.
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Adventure NZ
Last of the summer wine
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
With about a 90 percent return rate, most of our guests have become life-long friends and organise between themselves when they are coming back for a trip.
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News and General
Maniototo Muster
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Many months of planning and hundreds of emails came to fruition as the first of the 36 4WD vehicles rolled in to the Ranfurly Holiday Park for the Otago Recreational 4 Wheel Drive Group’s biennial
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News and General
Special edition Ford Everest BaseCamp comes to New Zealand
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
With more and more New Zealanders exploring the great backroads of the country and choosing off-roading adventures, the Ford Everest makes the perfect companion.
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Motor Sports
It's a wrap!
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
The Central zone Club Truck Challenge (CTC) slides into history for the 2021 season, here is a round-up of the people who competed in at least three of the rounds this season
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Motor Sports
Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Challenge Pt 2
A day of extremes - Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Challenge 2021 Part 2
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
When we left the Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Challenge last month the action was building up with lead changes and only 150 points separating the top three crews.
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Weekend drive
Springing into winter
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Struck by the ‘wanderlusts’ just as the weather was getting colder, David Coxon decided that a visit to the Mangatutu hot springs, on Puketitiri Road, inland from Napier, was just what
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Adventure International
NZ4WD August 2021
A Kiwi in Outback Australia
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Googs Track and the Simpson Desert - Part 2
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