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New and tested 4WDs
Jeep’s 2016 concept models
Jeep’s 2016 concept models
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Fans of the Jeep marque were in seventh heaven at the 50th Jeep Safari gathering at Moab in.
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Events
Southern men step up
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Winch challenge competition returned to the Deep South this year thanks to a keen group...
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4WD Sports
Aussie/Kiwi clash at Rallycross
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Sloan Cox is the Kiwi king of rallycross and shares the title with Aussie Steve Glenney after...
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New and tested 4WDs
Fortune(r) favours the brave
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
With SUV sales making up an increasingly large segment of the new vehicle market...
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Video Content
Wrangler DuraTrac tyre test
Thursday, 25 February 2016
We video test Goodyear’s tough-looking new all-purpose 4x4 tyre.
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New and tested 4WDs
Good sport!
Thursday, 18 February 2016
The new Pajero Sport has landed in New Zealand and Mitsubishi has big plans for it. The ‘Sport...
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News and General
SUV Buyer’s Guide 2016
Wednesday, 09 December 2015
Talk about storming the barricades. In what seems like the blink of an eye SUVs and Utes have taken over from big (think Holden Commodore) and small (think Toyota Corolla) cars as the most popular...
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New and tested 4WDs
New model Suzuki Vitara
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Everyone in the 4WD scene has got a Suzuki Vitara story of one kind or another. Usually they involve tales of daring-do out in the bush along the lines of an old Mark Twain quote; “it’s not the size...
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Adventure International, Adventure NZ
Rally Tours’ Silk Road 4x4 expedition
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
On July 15 this year a three-4WD Rally Tours NZ Silk Road 4x4 expedition convoy arrived in Vladivostok, Russia’s far eastern seaport after being on the road for 75 days and covered 19,000km passing...
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New and tested 4WDs, Video Content
Fieldays 5 Ute shootout
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
We video test five of New Zealand’s top-selling 4WD utes. Today’s double cab utes are literally...
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4WD Sports
Our Great Aussie 4WD Adventure Pt 1
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Keen to return home to live after their careers took them to Australia, Kiwi pair Gary and...
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Adventure International, Adventure NZ
Date with the Dakar
Monday, 15 September 2014
Way back when, ‘back in the day’ as the kids’ say, Kiwi country singer John Hore (later to become better known as John Grenell) adopted a song by Australian counterpart Geoff Mack call, ‘I’ve Been...
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Adventure International, Adventure NZ
Sand, Wind and Stars
Monday, 11 August 2014
Seventy years after the Long Range Desert Group's exploits became the very stuff of Boy's Own adventures, a diverse group from Egypt, England, Sweden and the US came together to follow in its tyre...
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Adventure International, Adventure NZ
Rally Tours goes global
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Rally Tours NZ director Greg Paul has just announced the company’s exciting 2014/2015 tour programme, with self-drive 4WD tours to places as diverse as Vladivostok in Russia, Lima in Peru, and Kenya...
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Adventure International, Adventure NZ
Russian Arctic - a different world
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
In any other country the old guy would be eligible for some sort of social help. He lives in a wooden shack km away from the nearest other wooden shack, drinks water from a well and eats fish he...
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Adventure International, Adventure NZ
Rally Tours off to Silk Road
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
After a very successful 45 day Beijing to Paris self drive tour in 2009 – featured in NZ4WD magazine in Ausgust and September last year - Rally Tours NZ is expanding its horizons into central Asia....
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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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