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TUESDAY,
JUNE 4, 2019
ELECTRIC
HOT ROD
7
PG.
ACTION
HERO
2 THE GISBORNE HERALD
STAR POWER
by Mark Peters
I Survived a Zombie Holocaust is one
of many action movies the Nissan Navara
means owners can better handle a bigger
payload and enjoy a compliant drive back
to the man-cave, depot or building site
with no sagging in the rear. The revised
4WD double cab has starred in. Jack Ryan, rear suspension doesn’t compromise the
McLeod’s Daughters, 13 Hours: The Secret vehicle’s towing ability. The double cab still
Soldiers of Benkahzi are a fistful of other maintains a 3½-tonne braked tow rating.
movies for this vehicle. You bet the tradie’s “It handled every surface, every twist,
favourite pick-up has no place in cheesey every bump like a limo,” enthused Hanson
rom-coms. of an earlier version of the grunt machine.
Nissan’s twin-turbo diesel engine is He really needs to get over the limo
designed to torque its way out of any thing.
situation. It has a massive 450Nm available “Well, as close as a ute with leaf springs
between 1500 and 2500rpm and enough at the back can get.”
torque to achieve a 3½ tonne braked towing Even action men and women, and tradies,
capacity. need a few accessories. The top of the range
Described by New Zealand Herald STX Navara comes with a 360 degree
motoring writer Phil Hanson as “the limo “bird’s eye view” camera system that enables
of Kiwi utes” chances are it scrubs up the driver to see front, side and back views
nicely to be able to roll up to the red carpet whether going forward or reversing. Just
for any one of its blockbusters too. And the ticket for seeing where the zombies are
speaking of busted blocks, with a single or coming from. And it makes hitching up
twin turbo diesel engine under the hood, the trailer or making tough manoeuvres
1503mm x 1490mm cargo bed and a in a tight area a doddle. For added home
3500kg braked towing capacity the Navara comforts it comes with a push-button
can carry away massive amounts of them. start, proximity key, sat nav and leather
The revised rear suspension offers better seats. Want some air in your hair? The
articulation in off-road situations. A request Navara cab has an electric sliding rear
for service call to the council to restore our window. Heating is available in the front
roads to their rough and pitted state so the seats, although hot seats were probably the
Navara can show off how well it copes with last thing anyone wanted while filming
rugged terrain has been ignored. 13 Hours in the Libyan desert. But with
Suffice to say Navara’s multi-link coil standard features such as Bluetooth and
spring rear suspension, rather than the airconditioning, the Navara interior is as
leaf spring rear suspension others use, inviting as any living room.
TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2019 3
Wrangler safety
SET to hit our shores next month, Jeep’s braking altogether.”
most iconic off-roader, the Wrangler looks Following in the footsteps of the
to follow in the footsteps of the Wranglers European tests, a score of 80 percent for
that have come before it, and fly the FCA’s child occupant protection was the highest
off-roading flag proudly. score that ANCAP gave the Wrangler.
While these look like extremely It scored 50 percent in adult occupant
capable SUVs, the Australasian New Car protection, 49 percent for vulnerable road
Assessment Programme (ANCAP) has user protection, and 32 percent for safety
given the Wrangler the same one-star assist.
rating as the European NCAP testers did. “The passenger compartment of the
Speedy by name
“The safety performance of the Wrangler Jeep Wrangler did not retain its structural
is limited, falling well shy of the expected integrity in the frontal offset test,”
standard in three of the four key areas of ANCAP’s official report states.
assessment,” ANCAP chief executive James “Connection between the A-pillar and
Goodwin said. the cross fascia beam was compromised, as
MEET the world’s fastest SUV, the new craftsmanship that goes into each vehicle, “Chest protection was a concern for the was the footwell structure, and penalties
Bentley Bentayga Speed. To win the title, I can confirm that the British SUV has driver and rear passenger in each of the were applied. Protection of the chest
the Bentayga Speed had to first see off the edge on its Italian rival here as well, frontal crash tests; a number of penalties was weak for the driver and adequate
an ultra-fast sibling rival from the wider but the margins are again very close. And were applied for structural deformation for the front passenger. Structures in the
Volkswagen Group family — the more you will pay more for the Bentayga Speed and potential leg injury hazards; and base dashboard were a potential source of
bullish Lamborghini Urus. This, the new when it arrives here towards the close variants lack autonomous emergency injury.” — Driven
Benta Speed does, but only by a whisker. of the year. The V8-powered Urus costs
The Urus, built in the same factory that $339,000 in New Zealand before loading
once spat out the legendary Contach in the options, while a base Bentayga W12
supercar, which tops out at 305.5kmh. is $350,000. Pricing for the Bentayga
The new Bentley imposes its dynamic Speed has yet to be announced, but given
superiority ever so gently by reaching a all the effort Bentley has put into claiming
V-max that’s just 0.5kmh faster at 306km. that ‘world’s fastest’ title, it’s likely to be a
While top speeds of this magnitude may number at least 30 grand north of the cost
be irrelevant in a New Zealand driving of an ‘ordinary’ 12-cylinder Bentayga.
context, such dinner table bragging rights It was inevitable that a Bentayga
are important when NZ$300,000+ sums Speed would join the performance party,
are required to buy either luxury SUV. especially given the impact that the SUV
Bentley also lay down a further claim has had. For the Bentayga now captures
for the Bentayga Speed that possibly has 52 percent of sales for Bentley, helped by
more appeal to many, calling it ‘the world’s the lower sub-300K entry prices of the
most luxurious SUV’. Having visited V8-powered petrol and diesel models.
both factories and compared the human — Driven
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NSX Type R reveal?
JUST like its iconic predecessor, the imagine that this would bump up the present on the race car.
Honda NSX Type R is apparently set to torque figures as well, but the report After contacting Honda about the
debut at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show didn’t touch on these. article, Motor1 received this response,
later this year. As with most go-fast modifications, which is slightly disappointing: “The
Though they didn’t reveal any sources, you also need to upgrade the stop-fast original article published on the Forbes
Forbes reported that red-badged, 650hp ones, and that’s exactly what Honda contributor network was speculative
version of Honda’s supercar is on track is reportedly planning to do. Carbon and did not contain information
for a 2019 reveal. ceramic brakes and stiffer suspension on sourcing. While we have no
No one knows how Honda is going are going to take care of handling and announcements to make regarding
to achieve this hefty power figure, but stopping needs. An NSX GT3-inspired future plans for NSX, we are pleased
online discussions point to either tuning body kit with added aero parts such as that numerous chassis improvements
the twin-turbo 3.5-litre V6, or making a bigger rear wing and front splitter are and an expanded colour palette for
better use of the three electric motors. also said to be present on the Type R. model-year 2019 have yielded a 42
This would mean that the Type R Considering that the Type R is percent increase in US sales.”
NSX would have 77hp more than its taking inspiration from its GT3 While this doesn’t sound promising,
standard counterpart, not the biggest counterpart, ditching the all-wheel they don’t rule out the possibility, and
bump in the world, but it would drive transmission is a real possibility, we’ve got our fingers crossed.
certainly be noticeable. We can also in favour of the rear-wheel drive system — NZME
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show-off
IT’S a one-off Bugatti back in March, and stayed
that is apparently the most out of the spotlight for a
expensive car in the world, while, but that was until
so why not show it off to Bugatti decided to show it
the public? at the Villa d’Este car show.
The bespoke hypercar where it garnered lots of
was unveiled to the world attention. — Driven
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With this in mind, car designers Jason
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upon themselves to design a car that
takes 1950s hot rod styling, but brings it
0
a hard pill to swallow for a good into the electric age.
percentage of automotive enthusiasts, Featuring a slender body without a
you can imagine the outrage that this roof, and exposed wheels, the vehicle
electric hot rod caused when it first hit
the internet.
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look right at home in the movie
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McLaughlin tops field
SCOTT McLaughlin has once The road to the chequered flag second, with his championship lead
again topped the Supercars podium, for McLaughlin was much simpler now up to 244 points.
after winning the second race of the than the chaotic race. From pole, Among the race’s other big
Truck Assist Winton SuperSprint he won the race to turn one from performances was Chris Pither.
over teammate Fabian Coulthard Coulthard, David Reynolds, and After a neck injury surfaced, Garry
and Red Bull’s Jamie Whincup. The Whincup. And from there both Rogers Motorsport elected to swap
result is McLaughlin’s 10th of the Shell V-Power Ford Mustangs Richie Stanaway with co-driver
season thus far, further stamping his controlled proceedings, with Pither today. Starting from last,
authority on what’s so far been one McLaughlin leading every lap apart Pither kept his nose clean before
of the most dominant campaigns in from those during the pit cycle. fending off a raft of fresh-tyre
Supercars history. In the end he won by just under a stoppers to the finish. — NZME
Gravel stages
test drivers
THE New Zealand Rally Championship AP4) has been seeded third and Rangiora’s
switched gears to a single-day rally format Matt Summerfield (Subaru Legacy) is
last weekend with North Canterbury seeded fourth.
hosting the third round of the series. The pair of Skoda Fabia R5 cars driven
The Lone Star Rally of Canterbury by Aucklanders Raana Horan and Kingsley
challenged crews with eight gravel special Jones are next in the seeding list ahead of
Photo / Matthew Hansen
stages and 162km of competition on Auckland’s Jack Hawkeswood (Mazda2
Sunday. AP4), Canterbury drivers Dylan Thomson
FT-60 unveiled
Subaru driver Ben Hunt (Auckland) has (Subaru Impreza) and Job Quantock
dominated the early season two-day events (Skoda Fabia AP4) while Tauranga’s Ben
at Dunedin and Whangarei, claiming two Thomason (Subaru Impreza) completes
wins and coming up only two points short the top-10.
of a clean sweep of the Leg and Power The first stage action took place in the
Stage bonus points. Ashley Forest before the route headed OVER the years we’ve waxed lyrical To cope with the extra size, the FT-60
Hunt was Sunday’s top seed in north towards Amberley, Cheviot and numerous times about all the measures also comes with a much larger tyre
a 69-strong field and he lead the Parnassus with four public road stages. that New Zealand’s Toyota Racing Series package; 230/560 in the front and 280/580
championship with 86 points from The last three stages were back in the has carried out to increase the level of in the rear.
Holden Barina AP4 driver Josh Marston Ashley Forest and the final two stages are international interest that surrounds it — To put that into perspective, its front
(Christchurch) on 49 and Auckland’s timed to start at 5.24pm and 5.58pm to from the addition of FIA Super Licence tyres are essentially the same size as last
Andrew Hawkeswood (Mazda2 AP4) on challenge crews with some rare — in the points, to the timing and nature of the year’s rear tyres.
46. modern era — after-dark rallying before calendar. But today, the category has The Toyota Racing Series machine also,
Hawkeswood had not entered the the finishers toured into Christchurch. potentially made its biggest step yet in for the first time, gets a ‘halo’.
Canterbury event which had a significantly 2019 NZ Rally Championship (after revealing their next-gen car; the FT-60. The safety structure has caused plenty
thinner look to the top seedings than the round 2 of 6): Replacing the outgoing FT-50, the new of controversy in traditionalist open-wheel
earlier rallies at Dunedin and Whangarei. 1 Ben Hunt (Auckland) Subaru WRX platform was revealed recently at Toyota circles since it was first implemented a few
Hawkeswood, along with Hayden STI, 86pts Racing New Zealand’s Hampton Downs years ago as a safety measure to prevent
Paddon and David Holder had contested 2 Josh Marston (Christchurch) Holden base. It sports Toyota Gazoo Racing New drivers from high-speed head injuries. But,
the Asia Pacific Championship category Barina AP4, 49pts Zealand branding, which will become as time has passed, less and less complaints
at both events but were not in action last 3 Andrew Hawkeswood (Auckland) TRNZ’s new moniker as the marque around ‘the jandal’ can be found on social
weekend while Auckland’s Dylan Turner Mazda2 AP4, 46pts ramps up its motorsport involvement media.
(Audi S1 AP4), Dunedin’s Emma Gilmour 4 Dylan Turner (Auckland) Audi S1 worldwide. What helps in this case is that Tatuus
(Suzuki Swift Maxi) and Hamilton driver AP4, 39pts The main theme of the FT-60 is “more”. have done a better job than most of
Stephen Barker (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9) 5 Marcus van Klink (Christchurch) There’s more power, there’s more aero integrating the halo into the FT-60’s
are other leading drivers also missing from Mazda RX8, 32pts elements, and there’s more heft in the design. With a highly angled front strut,
the Canterbury entry list. 6 Dylan Thomson (Christchurch) dimensions. and a top bow that blends into the
Tauranga’s Phil Campbell (Ford Fiesta Subaru Impreza WRX, 30pts. — Driven The platform is still sourced from Tatuus contours of the engine cover nicely, it’s
out of Italy, with plenty of similarities to hardly an offensive design.
cars used in Europe’s open-wheel formulae. The leading distinction that makes the
This manifests in a much more complex FT-60 different compared to its overseas
aero package and a more imposing size. counterparts is its power-plant.
Compared to the FT-50, the FT-60 comes As opposed to grabbing an off-the-shelf
with a much more shapely and contoured engine, Toyota have elected to use a locally
carbon-fibre floor, a bigger rear diffuser developed unit instead. It will be based on
with more elements, and a bigger front and the 8AR-FTS from Lexus; a turbocharged
rear spoiler. 2.0-litre direct and port–injected engine
Driven were able to get a quiet look normally seen under the bonnet of cars like
at the all-composite FT-60 prior to the the Lexus IS 200-t and RC 200t. In this
launch, and perhaps the most obvious application, it’ll be hooked up to a 6-speed
distinction between it and the stack Sadev sequential transmission.
of FT-50s that surround it at Toyota’s Development will come via the capable
workshop is that it’s considerably larger. hands of David Gouk, with power expected
Think about the increase in scale from a to sit at around 270kW — a 41kW
Formula 3 car to a Formula 1 car, and then increase over what the outgoing naturally
apply a similar increase on top of the old aspirated 2ZZ-GE engine made. Top
FT-50. All up, this makes for an outright speed is expected to sit at 250kmh.
Photo / PHOTOGRAPHY INMOTION/Greg Henderson
dry weight of approximately 600kg. — New Zealand Herald
TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2019 7
‘Bigfoot’ lives
BACK before upgrading your pick- Zealand too).
up truck into a heavy-toed behemoth No, it needed one heck of an engine as
was actually a thing, Bob Chandler, a well.
construction worker and off-roading The custom engine Chandler eventually
enthusiast from St. Louis, Missouri, settled on was state-of-the-art at the
wanted to modify his 1974 Ford F-250 time; an all-aluminium big-block Ford
with a few grunty accessories to get that displacing 640 cubic inches, tickled along
much farther up the local trails. with a supercharger and nitrous.
Fast-forward a bit (and after a few Not the sort of engine to be overhauled
rounds of modifications) and Chandler without much forethought. After all,
had inadvertently invented an entire many of the components are now as rare
movement; the monster truck. That F-250 as rocking horse excrement. We know
he modified? Well, it became a legend: the this because, thanks to YouTube, you can
Go-kart Gaunt
original car-crushing ‘Bigfoot’. watch a team of engine reconditioners on
Naturally, the truck relied on more than the PowerNation channel tear down and
just its ridiculously oversized tyres to wow build up the heart of a legend.
the crowds at state fairs across the US If you have 18 minutes to spare, go
Midwest (and eventually thanks to 1980s seek out PowerNation “Original Bigfoot
“I FEAR that at any point now, someone’s golf course and laser tag arena. It’s one of TV shows like That’s Incredible! wide- Engine Build” and watch the entire strip-
gonna say ‘Jesus, do you actually know what two Game Over kart tracks in New Zealand. eyed kids in far flung places like New down process for yourself. — Driven
you’re doing?’ from up above me.” His should be a familiar name to Kiwi
One day, scholars with nothing better to motorsport fans. For a time, he was a
do will write stories about the correlation of regular in the Virgin Australia Supercars
race drivers who hang up the gloves in their Championship, racing in the Dunlop
droves, and become astute businessmen. Development Series before scoring a series
Although, speaking to Daniel Gaunt, he’s of co-driver gigs and a short-lived seat with
not sure exactly where he falls into the nexus. Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport.
“Tony (Quinn) always says that race These days, he’s a frequent fixture in the
drivers make good businessmen. But, I’m CAMS Australian GT Championship. And
not going to be pretend I’m a businessman,” it was at one of these events last year that a
he laughs. plan was formed with co-driver and circuit
Gaunt recently opened Game Over owner Tony Quinn.
Auckland; a big red colossus of a building “It’s all new to me. Dealing with staff,
that overlooks the Northern Motorway. the pressures of paying rent. Even though
Inside is one of the country’s largest Tony’s enabled it, I’m a shareholder and it
go-karting facilities, with an attached mini- has to work.” — Driven
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championship outright netted themselves at driving — especially with the technology
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