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Every year the cost of accidents while reversing is high, especially when you count the cost to people who are run over or injured by reversing vehicles.

New tech transmissions

The seven gear ratios of the 7G TRONIC allow the automatic transmission to retain the small increases in engine speed and at the same time offer a larger ratio spread between the lowest and highest gear.

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX

The ninth generation and 12th model of the iconic Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution arrived in New Zealand late May,

How many different types of steel are in the motor vehicles we repair today?

Years ago we accepted the new product aluminium.

We understood workplaces needed new tools to deal with aluminium and that users would need to be trained on special courses, and receive their certificate of competence if they reached the standard.

3 Times the technology

New BMW launches are always interesting, each new model has so much new technology it boggles the mind how they can keep improving the vehicles so much from generation to generation. This new E90 model 3 Series is no exception, with many new technologies that debuted a few years ago on the then - new 7 Series, and subsequently migrated to the new 5 Series, having now found their way to the 3 Series. However of more interest to Motor Equipment News readers are some new technologies introduced with this model such as the enhanced DSC system that now has more functions than your average Swiss Army knife, and the new N42 six cylinder engine with hybrid magnesium/aluminium engine block, electric water pump and 3 stage DISA system.

It's our right to drive left

More than 3000 left-hand drive enthusiasts have banded together to lobby Land Transport New Zealand to keep its promise to review the law governing the importation of late model left-hand drive vehicles.

The Left-hand Drive Enthusiasts Federation believes the law is grossly unfair in its current form.