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• Labour signals higher carbon price with ETS review pledge

  08-09-2026 00:45 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Labour leader Chris Hipkins. Labour would urgently review the Emissions Trading Scheme if elected, saying the carbon price is too low to drive emissions reductions, a position that points to a higher price being passed through at the pump. Leader Chris Hipkins and climate spokeswoman Deborah Russell say the review would look at ways to […]
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• Porsche celebrates 50 years in NZ with Auckland showcase

  16-09-2026 04:59 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Porsche will mark 50 years in New Zealand with a free public event featuring more than 200 vehicles at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre on Sunday, September 20. The anniversary showcase will run from 11am to 2pm and bring together road and competition cars spanning five decades. Its headline exhibit will be a Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 […]
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• Evnex reaches 20,000 EV charger installations

  16-09-2026 04:30 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Christchurch-based Evnex has passed 20,000 electric vehicle charger installations across New Zealand and Australia following a sharp acceleration in sales.
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• Sena lifts 2 Cheap Cars takeover offer

  16-09-2026 03:58 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Sena & Co has increased its takeover offer for the remaining shares in 2 Cheap Cars Group from 80 cents per share to 90 cents.
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• Motor vehicle spending slips in August

  16-09-2026 03:41 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  New Zealanders spent $194 million on motor vehicles in August, down $600,000 or 0.3% from July, according to Stats NZ. The category has remained relatively stable this year, ranging between $190m and $198 million during the first eight months of 2026, according to seasonally adjusted figures. Compared with August 2025, motor vehicle spending was around […]
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• 2 Cheap Cars posts $2.32m five-month profit

  15-09-2026 23:13 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  2 Cheap Cars Group has reported an unaudited net profit after tax of approximately $2.32 million for the first five months of FY27, releasing the update to keep shareholders informed during the current takeover offer. The NZX-listed vehicle retailer recorded an NPAT of about $330,000 in August, according to its unaudited management accounts. The result […]
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• Breaking: Embattled caravan manufacturer collapses into administration

  15-09-2026 06:49 via abc.net.au
  
  Sunshine Coast-based Australian Off Road has called in administrators after the company went dark last week, leaving hundreds of customers and suppliers in limbo.
  
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• ‘You can’t save your way to success’: Timperley tells dealers productivity is the only lever left

  15-09-2026 03:32 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Deloitte’s Stephen Timperley at AutoTalk Live! Christchurch. Dealers cannot cut their way out of a thin market, and every answer that matters sits with their people rather than their overheads. That was Stephen Timperley’s message to AutoTalk Live! Christchurch, delivering Deloitte’s Motor Industry Benchmarks to a room of dealer principals. Net profit to sales across […]
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• Cybercab tour reaches Auckland in 2027, a year behind the Australian stops

  15-09-2026 03:27 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  The Cybercab tours Tesla locations from 21 September, reaching Auckland in 2027. Image: Tesla Tesla will tour the Cybercab through its Australian and New Zealand locations across 2026 and 2027, but New Zealand gets a single stop, in Auckland, and not until next year. The tour opens in Sydney on 21 September, then runs through […]
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• Six-year-old RAV4 or a new MG for the same money: MTA puts the shift to dealers

  15-09-2026 02:42 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  MTA head of advocacy James McDowall at AutoTalk Live! Christchurch. Twenty-five thousand dollars buys a six-year-old RAV4 with 100,000km on it, or a brand new MG with a 10-year warranty. MTA head of advocacy James McDowall put that comparison to dealers at AutoTalk Live! Christchurch as the clearest single picture of what is happening to […]
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• AutoTalk Live! Christchurch gets under way

  15-09-2026 02:37 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  AutoTalk Live! Christchurch is under way at Rydges Latimer, bringing automotive industry leaders together for an afternoon of market analysis, dealership insights and regulatory discussion. The half-day programme covers motor industry benchmarking, vehicle market conditions, artificial intelligence, customer enquiry response times, digital reach and dealer marketing. MTA’s head of advocacy James McDowall opens the day […]
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• Enterprise Motor Group backs golf as used car group takes NZPGA vehicle deal

  15-09-2026 02:36 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  An NZPGA-liveried Triton on the Enterprise Motor Group yard. Image: Enterprise Motor Group Enterprise Motor Group has been named official vehicle partner of PGA New Zealand, putting a used vehicle group into a sponsorship category usually occupied by the European premium brands. The group describes it as one of the largest sponsorships in its history. […]
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• Former New Lynn car dealer admits US meth charges, faces return to NZ prosecutions

  14-09-2026 22:31 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  The High Court in Auckland. File image. A former West Auckland used car dealer has pleaded guilty in the United States to drug charges carrying a maximum of life imprisonment, and is expected to be deported to New Zealand to face two separate police prosecutions once he has served his sentence. Andre Francis James, 49, […]
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• Cockram Motor Group takes on Crusader Caravans for the South Island

  14-09-2026 21:45 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Crusader builds full-composite caravans in Victoria. Image: Crusader Caravans Christchurch’s Cockram Motor Group has picked up the South Island franchise for Australian caravan manufacturer Crusader Caravans, taking the brand into a second New Zealand dealership through its CMG Campers arm. CMG Campers runs a showroom at Nga Mahi Road in Sockburn and already retails Swift […]
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• FleetPartners takeover battle intensifies

  14-09-2026 06:12 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  ASX-listed FleetPartners Group has received three revised takeover proposals valuing the Australian fleet management and leasing company at up to A$993.4 million (NZ$1.23b), while Canadian bidder Element Fleet Management has withdrawn from the sale process. Japan-based ORIX Corporation and a Japanese consortium comprising Sumitomo Corporation and Sumitomo Mitsui Auto Service have each offered A$4.65 per […]
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• Hyundai targets autonomous driving production for 2028

  14-09-2026 04:34 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Hyundai Motor Group plans to introduce production vehicles using Nvidia-based Level 2+ autonomous driving technology in the first half of 2028. Level 2++ models using the Nvidia system are targeted for the second half of that year, followed by vehicles equipped with Hyundai’s proprietary Atria AI technology during the second half of 2029. The timetable […]
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• Turners reports record uptake of employee share scheme

  14-09-2026 02:03 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Turners says 72% of its workforce now holds shares in the company following record uptake of its employee share scheme.
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• Vehicle FBT overhaul enters Parliament, ending the work-related ute exemption from April 2027

  13-09-2026 21:00 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Revenue Minister Simon Watts. The first rewrite of the vehicle fringe benefit tax rules since the tax was introduced in 1985 is before Parliament, in a bill that replaces day-counting and logbooks with fixed categories of private use, ends the work-related vehicle exemption that has underpinned the double-cab ute, and applies lower valuation rates to […]
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• Seven of China’s ten best-selling cars are already on NZ dealer floors

  11-09-2026 22:57 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  The Geely EX2 led China’s passenger market in August. It is on sale here from $32,990. Image: Geely Seven of the ten best-selling cars in China last month are on sale in New Zealand, an eighth is confirmed for 2027, and the car that led the world’s largest market is a $32,990 hatch already sitting […]
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• BYD reportedly orders 10 more car carriers, NZ deliveries by own fleet tipped for late 2027

  11-09-2026 22:54 via autotalk.co.nz
  BYD Explorer No.1, the first of the brand’s eight-ship fleet. Image: BYD BYD has reportedly ordered 10 more pure car and truck carriers, each with capacity for 9200 vehicles, and its New Zealand distributor expects the brand’s own ships to start delivering here from late 2027 or early 2028. The order is reported by maritime […]
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• New Auckland transport committee appointed

  11-09-2026 03:13 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Auckland’s new Regional Transport Committee has been appointed, marking the next step in reforms aimed at improving coordination between local and central government. The statutory committee will set long-term strategic direction for the region’s transport system, develop a 30-year transport plan and prepare the Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan. It comprises three ministerial appointees, three […]
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• Last chance for tickets as AutoTalk Live! Christchurch lands next Tuesday

  10-09-2026 06:08 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  AutoTalk Live! at Eden Park in May. AutoTalk Live! Christchurch is five days away and close to selling out, with the last tickets for Tuesday’s half-day at Rydges Latimer on sale now. The programme runs from benchmarking data to the regulator’s findings on add-on insurance, with a guest slot in between. Stephen Timperley opens the […]
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• Ford funding bespoke NZ test to get Ranger Super Duty over the line

  10-09-2026 05:56 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  The Ranger Super Duty has sold around 10,000 units in Australia in its first year. Image: Ford Ford is paying for a New Zealand-specific braking and towing test in an effort to get the Ranger Super Duty on sale here in 2027, a year after the vehicle launched in Australia. Ford New Zealand managing director […]
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• Mazda moves North Shore franchise to Miles as Eagers sale looms

  10-09-2026 03:46 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  A rendered impression of Miles Mazda at 16 Fred Thomas Drive, Takapuna. Image: Mazda Mazda has appointed Miles Group as its sole North Shore dealer, with Miles Mazda opening on 1 October at 16 Fred Thomas Drive, Takapuna, within the group’s Miles North Shore precinct. Mazda Motors of New Zealand describes the site as the […]
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• GWM prices Cannon Hi4-T PHEV $12,000 under the Shark 6

  10-09-2026 01:56 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  The Cannon Hi4-T PHEV arrives later this month. Image: GWM GWM New Zealand has priced its Cannon Hi4-T plug-in hybrid ute from $58,990 plus on-road costs, $12,000 under the BYD Shark 6, setting up a direct price fight in the plug-in ute segment BYD has had largely to itself. The Lux grade opens the range, […]
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• Sena gives 2 Cheap Cars takeover bid another week

  10-09-2026 01:54 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Sena & Co has extended its takeover offer for 2 Cheap Cars Group (2CC) for a second time, pushing the closing date out by another week.
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• GWM tows a Warriors bandwagon through rival NRL suburbs as finals begin

  09-09-2026 08:09 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  The Cannon Alpha PHEV and bandwagon outside Leichhardt Oval, home of the Wests Tigers. Image: GWM GWM has revealed itself as the brand behind a Warriors-liveried bandwagon that has spent the week being towed past the home clubs of eliminated NRL teams in Sydney, as the Warriors sponsor looks to convert Australian fans for the […]
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• Australian used vehicle sales rise again, EV demand accelerates

  09-09-2026 03:26 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Australia’s used and demonstrator vehicle market recorded a second consecutive monthly increase in August, with sales rising 1.3% to 243,514 units. Data from the Australian Automotive Dealer Association (AADA) and AutoGrab shows sales of one-to-five-year-old used vehicles performed particularly strongly, climbing 5.4% from July to 58,090. Victoria recorded the fastest growth among the five largest […]
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• Teletrac Navman names new chief executive

  09-09-2026 01:58 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Teletrac Navman has appointed Ricardo Buranello as its next chief executive, effective October 1.
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• Avanti names Pennell chief operating officer, folds personal lending into Robson’s auto remit

  09-09-2026 01:58 via autotalk.co.nz
  
  Avanti Finance chief operating officer Tracy Pennell and general manager auto and personal Lee Robson. Avanti Finance has appointed Tracy Pennell as chief operating officer and handed Lee Robson responsibility for personal lending alongside the auto business he already runs, in a restructure the specialist lender says is aimed at clearer ownership across operations, risk […]
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