Trail bikes are 10 a penny. But what you need for the Yamaha-sponsored three-day South Island Safari is a dual-purpose bike; a road-registered off-roader with indicators and a headlight.

Marketing language can be flowery, but for once they're right; this car really does sound like a choir of angels. Or at least the atonal church organ reverb that heralds a cinematic spiritual moment - and sets the air alive with sound.

How New Zealand takes to Suzuki's latest Swift could make or break the brand here.

It might look like a big trailie, but only a glutton for punishment would take BMW's R1200GS off-road Kiwi style, if nothing else because it weighs 229kg.

Alfa Romeo hopes to double sales and give VW a nudge with the new Giulietta, which promises Italian sex appeal matched to everyday practicality.

"Do as I say, not as I do", was in the mind of a man who claims to have seen a police officer talking on his cellphone while driving.

Two men are dead following a crash between a motorcycle and a truck just south of Tauranga this morning.