The recall is being made by Toyota New Zealand because of airbag faults.

What are the ethical questions that must be faced when we use driverless cars?

Is the VW emissions scandal hitting the market for used cars?

Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal is "on the same scale as Enron", America's most notorious corporate failure, according to US politicians.

In NZ we don't have emissions tests, so no one got ripped off. No one buys a diesel for emissions here, they buy them because diesel is cheaper than petrol.

Volkswagen has owned up to thousands of vehicles on New Zealand roads being caught in its global emissions-cheating software scandal.

High levels of pollution are being emitted by diesel vehicles built by a range of carmakers other than Volkswagen, it has been reported.

Volkswagen shares have plunged and its chief executive is in the gun after it was revealed the car company rigged its diesel vehicles to cheat emissions tests.

Rental cars are costly. If the upfront hire fees aren't enough, there are lots of other charges that can double the cost. That can be anything from increased insurance costs to reduce excesses, to hiring a child seat.

Toyota New Zealand has issued a recall for 420 used import Voltz and Pronard models which were originally manufactured between December 2001 and May 2004.

IndyCar driver Scott Dixon has only two rounds left in this year's championship to pounce on Juan Pablo Montoya and Graham Rahal and claim his fourth IRL title.

Fernando Alonso wishes he had left Ferrari sooner and, contrary to much speculation, feels he made the right decision to join struggling McLaren's "new project" with Honda.

New car registration numbers are at a record high but the rate of growth is slowing.

Robbie “Maddo” Maddison rides his dirt bike on the powerful and iconic waves of Tahiti. Source: DC Shoes/YouTube

The world's best hard enduro racers took on hundreds of kilometers of grueling Transylvania Wilderness for the 2015 edition of Red Bull Romaniacs. Five tough days of racing, plenty of big crashes, and head-to-head rivalries that came down to the last minutes made for one of the most exciting events in the history of the sport. Source: Red Bull/Youtube

A trusty one-owner ute will go under the hammer tomorrow - after clocking the equivalent of two return trips to the moon, or a staggering 1.2 million kilometres.

Apple's operations chief Jeff Williams has dropped the biggest hint yet that the firm is developing a car.

Early versions of automated cars are already rolling into showrooms, whether buyers are ready or not.

A Kiwi inventor has made cars glow in the dark.

Ford veteran Mark Winterbottom thrust himself back into the championship lead with victory in the final race of the weekend's V8 Supercars round in Winton.

Toyota is recalling more than 26,000 New Zealand vehicles over a possible airbag fault.

Daimler Trucks North America says its "Inspiration" truck, the first self-driving semi-truck to be licensed for public roads - in this case any highway in Nevada - is the future of trucking.

Toyota has used an image of war hero Willie Apiata in a social media post about duck hunting.

A new system to determine new car licensing levies has been criticised for determining higher fees be charged to owners of vehicles with a safe track record.

Richie Stanaway is looking forward to a busy year of racing which sees him moving up a rung on the motorsport ladder to GP2 - just one below Formula One.

Fleets, public and private, are the key to the uptake of electric vehicles in this country, Mighty River Power chief executive Fraser Whineray says.

Rental car company finds foreign drivers failing to keep left only marginally more likely to crash.

An Auckland property developer parked his late-model Lamborghini in a mobility parking space without a permit.