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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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Aline in the sand
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Our review of camping trailers and caravans suitable for 4WD explorations begins with the Cruiseliner – part of the A’Liner series of campers from A’Van – and we soon learned that this camper does...
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Hilux gets more brute - Part 2
Thursday, 21 August 2008
If not once but perhaps a few hundred times most 4WD enthusiasts have had a very similar dream. No, I’m not referring to the Swedish Bikini Team coming over to wash the ute, although that would be...
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Land Rover Discovery TDV6 HSE
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Looking back through previous issues, it seems the Land Rover Discovery 3 slipped through our test fingers. Whether it was a changeover of importer or editor nobody can remember. But we decided to...
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MITSUBISHI - TRITON - 3.2 GLS Double Cab WELLSIDE
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Although the Mitsi Triton has been with us for some time now, there’s been a glaring hole in the lineup – and that’s an automatic diesel!
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Jeep Woodhill 4WD Park
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
After several months hard work New Zealand’s latest 4WD and exciting park officially opened at the end of June.
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Car Cube Tested
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
We wrote about the Car Cube two months ago, and promised a test of this useful new product.
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Fieldays Hits 40
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Fieldays has been and gone, and the 40th anniversary event at Mystery Creek in Hamilton saw a total of 131,629 visitors pass through the gates.
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Mitchell's a 4WD Star
Monday, 23 June 2008
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...
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Hummer To The High Country
Monday, 23 June 2008
Off-road motorcycle rides in New Zealand’s wild south had whetted my appetite to visit more of this fascinating region. But solo off-road travel can be difficult down there - not least because of...
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Lake it or Not
Monday, 23 June 2008
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,...
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Readers in the Forest
Monday, 26 May 2008
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
Monday, 26 May 2008
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...
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