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Archive: 2022

Busted Broker

22 February 2022

Busted Again

Following on from the hugely successful ‘BUSTED! Stories from New Zealand’s Leading Private Investigator’ Ron McQuilter tells more stories of the incredible New Zealand cases in which. he has been involved. . Extortion, fraud, insurance scams and workplace theft are just some of the intrigu...

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Competition Van Broker

22 February 2022

How can you shine at claim time?!

The best experience a client can have is when an insurer settles their claim within a reasonable length of time and with a financial settlement that indemnifies them for the loss which has occurred. As a broker or adviser, helping your client at the time of. a potential claim is where your value ca...

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2021 Tesla Model S 003 2160 scaled Automotive

22 February 2022

The rise of the Tesla

If you’ve been busy with new vehicle insurance quotes in the past year then it could be because 2021 was the biggest sales year on record for the New Zealand new vehicle industry. As a country we added 165,287 new cars to the roads in the last 12 months and an increasing number of these were Tesl...

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Honda 3 Motorcycle

22 February 2022

Honda Police Specials

“One of the three most significant motorcycles in history” — that’s how Hayden Tasker describes the Honda CB750, considered by many to be the first superbike. He believes the bike changed motorcycling — so it’s no surprise to find three of them in his collection of police specials By Rit...

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Screen Shot 2022 02 14 at 2.09.17 PM Motorcycle

22 February 2022

Over The Hill

On the northern edge of the Banks Peninsula, but still close enough to be labelled part of Christchurch, sits Te Onepoto/Taylors Mistake. Kathy Catton investigates the charm of this idyllic Christchurch beach. Story Kathy Catton Photos Stephen Goodenough. At the south-eastern extremity of Christc...

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Twin 1 Motorcycle

22 February 2022

Twin-Triumph Record Challenger

In a pleasant point garage, one man’s passion for the engineering of the past coexists with his enthusiasm for the possibilities offered by the technological innovations of the present. By Ritchie WilsonPhotographs: Brian High and Ritchie Wilson. Marine engineer Gilbert Bailey was in the US for...

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Ellerslie 1 Enthusiast

22 February 2022

50 Years Young

The 50th edition of the Ellerslie Car Show was the biggest and the best. By Ian Parkes, photography Greg Lokes. It’s fair to say that the organisers pulled out all the stops for the 50th annual classic car show. They put on a superb multilayered display that was really appreciated by the big cr...

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TVR 1 Enthusiast

22 February 2022

An all-British muscle car

One of the great sports car shapes, evocative of its uncompromising power, the TVR is one for the purists. It’s rare and it’s British, with most of the pluses and few of the drawbacks that entails. By Patrick Harlow. To tell the Griffith story, we need first to look at the Cobra. The AC Cobra...

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