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.

An Australian billionaire has chosen a remote corner of rural New Zealand to design, test and build the world's fastest track car.

An Auckland motorist was stunned to open his mail and find a speed camera had pinged him twice for the same offence.

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.

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 Brendon Hartley has a chance of clinching the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship.

DJR Team Penske have announced New Zealand driver Fabian Coulthard will join their V8 Supercars team next season - but the future of veteran Marcus Ambrose is still up in the air.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Geeks and sport may not be thought of as going hand in hand but in reality sport can be super-geeky.

Motor Trade Association chief executive Warwick Quinn says he is shocked by revelations that Volkswagen intentionally rigged almost half a million cars to cheat United States diesel emission tests,....

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.

The revelation that Volkswagen rigged emission tests could cost the company dearly - but what does it mean for those that own one of these vehicles?

A classic motorcycle collection worth $1 million to be auctioned this weekend is being touted as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to nab a rare machine.

Sam Morgan criticses car-maker for skirting clean air rules: "My last two cars have been Volkswagen. And now I don't trust them. Brand destruction."

The new Jaguar SUV has set a Guinness World Record for completing the largest loop-the-loop, with stunt driver Terry Grant. Source: Jaguar