By Sandy Myhre The Back Story: There’s no question that Hyundai is investing much time and effort into research and development and shaping its future through electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell technology. That’s just for starters. The company is also into motor sport through their World Rally Championship participation and New Zealand had a hand in that with Haydon Paddon until he was replaced … Continue reading HYUNDAI’S HOT HATCH
The Jaguar F-Type is the ‘heir apparent’ to the iconic E-Type but can it add to the legend? Continue reading CAN IT ADD TO THE LEGEND?
It’s not hard to fall in love here with, well, everything. Continue reading A LODGE, THE MUSIC, THE BOAT AND THE HOSTS
By Sara Dinnen You’re a woman living on your own. Or, indeed, a man living on his own. It doesn’t matter what gender and what the causes might have been – death, divorce, just plain fed up – the result is the same. You’re living on your own. Don’t you just love it when someone who has been married for 45 years or so, and … Continue reading A PAIR, A SPARE AND A MAYOR
There, in the corner, was an ice-cold bottle of bubbly. I decided to have a glass while working….which suddenly became three. Continue reading Bubbles, bubbles, toil and troubles
The Bay of Islands was an important part of New Zealand’s defence strategy… Continue reading DISCOVERING FORTRESS NORTHLAND
Alfa Romeo have consistently achieved distinctive design over more than one hundred years of manufacture Continue reading BECOMING AN ALFISTI IN ONE EASY LESSON
None of them had the stuffy and potentially fawning “Madam” and “Sir” approach during their verbal interactions. Continue reading THE MUMMY AND THE DUKE
Out and about in an XF Sportbrake Aaaahhh, Jaguar. I have loved this marque since I was a child (a long time ago). I don’t remember how or why I fell in love but I must have seen one on TV. We certainly didn’t move in the circles where people owned them. Before you ask, no, it wasn’t the Mark II Jaguar Inspector Morse drove. … Continue reading Head over heels with a big cat
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by Charleen Clarke There is one thing in life that I truly despise: lies. When someone lies to me, I lose all respect for that person. Accordingly, I’m always honest – even when I really shouldn’t be. But recently I got the magnificent Jaguar F-Type on test – and I turned into a pathological liar. I had been showing my apartment to a cocky young … Continue reading Jaguar F-type turned me into a liar and a bit of a bitch
