Source: Sigurd Magnusson

Tauranga racing driver Richie Stanaway has put his total focus on FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) GT racing in 2016.

Mike argues that the government has been sucked into supporting an industry that should be made to stand on their own two feet.

The biggest classic and new car show in the country was held at Ellerslie on Valentine's Day.

A car that was lovingly restored just in time to carry its owner's daughter to her wedding in March last year will have its own big day today at the Ellerslie Intermarque Concours and Classic Car Show.

In an already congested city, red light runners add needless delay to our intersections, forcing other drivers to wait and check before accelerating once lights turn green, writes Barney Irvine.

Up to 40,000 car enthusiasts and petrol heads alike converged on West Auckland at the weekend to admire an array of old motor vehicles at the the 22nd National Classic Car and Hot Rod Festival. The 3500 lovingly restored cars included Robbie Allen's two heavily customized classics - a 1956 Lincoln Continental with "The Matrix" theme and a Corvette Stingray, a "Motorhead" themed 1000 horse power beast.

Find out what we can expect to see, use, wear, drive, drink and eat this year.

Kiwis looking to fill up ahead of a big drive over the holidays will be glad to hear the petrol pump war is heating up and gas prices are being slashed.

Motorists and most aspiring vehicle owners are expected to benefit from an increasingly competitive car business, diving petrol prices and falling levies.

An electric BMW has won the New Zealand Car of the Year this year.

Competition in motor vehicle lending is driving down the cost of cars.

"A technology tsunami" is how a Florida transport head describes arrival of driverless cars.

There is a race taking place between some of the big names of car making - Japan's Toyota and Honda and their Asian neighbour Hyundai - and a smaller camp led by the tech visionary Elon Musk.

Three quarters of car thefts in France are carried out using electronic hacking, it was claimed yesterday, prompting calls for security improvements in a range of vehicles sold in Europe.

Kiwi owners of about 8500 vehicles caught up in Volkswagen's global emissions scandal are being invited to join a claim action being organised by a Wellington law firm.

Holden's Fabian Coulthard yesterday broke his own lap record in a blistering final practice session at the Bathurst 1000.

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.

Tesla has handed over the first of its Model X sport utility vehicles amid growing scrutiny of Volkswagen.

Volkswagen will start fixing emissions systems that cheated on pollution tests as soon as October.

Car-maker's New Zealand branch waiting anxiously for information on whether vehicles sold in NZ affected by emissions scandal.

Luxury car brand admits its cars were outfitted with emissions-cheating software VW used.

For Germans, VW is a huge part of their national identity and place brand, writes Mike Lee. It would be like a Kiwi finding out that Fonterra, purposely lied about the safety or nutritional value of its milk products.

Earlier in the week, Ruddenklau said New Zealand was not involved with the VW scandal in any way.

An inquest into the horrific deaths of seven tourists has heard an appeal to Kiwis to stop blaming foreign drivers for the carnage on our roads.

Nowhere is the VW emissions scandal being felt more acutely than in Wolfsburg, the ultimate German company town.

NZ Volkswagen owners may not be spared from the fallout of the global emissions cheating scandal.