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Liquid insanity: putting 2500hp to the water
There’s a lot more to performance V8s than just land-based contraptions, and if you really need proof of that, we’ve got just that in the

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017 — Live stream!
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is about to kick off for another year of high-speed radness and we’ve got all the action streaming here LIVE

Biggest and best: 50th IHRA Winternationals gallery
The annual Winternationals is the biggest drag racing event in Australia, full-stop. Held on Australia’s Queen’s Birthday weekend at Willowbank Raceway, the event covers a

Bubblicious: rolling in a ’61 Bubbletop
After a chance meeting with a ’61 Impala at Muscle Car Madness, Wayne had to endure a 20-year wait to finally get his

Score a $1799 Repco tool kit stacked to the brim with Play Dead car care
Loyalty cards are dime a dozen and more often than not just rack up pointless rewards points that expire before you can use them —

Concept Corner: deluxe sleeper
Early ’50s Chevs are not usually associated with performance. Chuck a supercharged LS and an Art Morrison chassis into one, and you might

Capital Rodders on again
A shame about the weather for the organisers of the 7th annual Capital Rodders’ Wellington Swap Meet & Horsepower Show at Trentham Racecourse, Upper Hutt,

In the zone: Fanga Dan’s crew and sponsor day
Grey is the only way to describe the morning hanging over Hampton Downs Motorsport Park. However, the noise emanating from the Club Circuit is anything

Woodenspiration: custom DeSoto Woody
Woodenspiration — with that terrible, wood-related wordplay out of the way, you can read all about Grant Wallace’s incredible custom DeSoto woody

Honk if you’re horny
We’ve all been there, sitting at the lights when the car in front waits a beat too long to get underway. No biggie, we give

Rattle ya dags and get yourself to Fieldays
It’s that time of year again where what seems like every ute in the country converges on Mystery Creek in Hamilton for Fieldays. 2017 sees

NZV8 Issue No. 146 breaks cover!
This month’s cover car doesn’t look like your average NZV8 cover car … View fullsize Nothing hanging out of the bonnet, nothing too crazy wherever

2018 Holden Supercar: last of the V8 Commodores
View fullsize With the cessation of both Ford and Holden’s Australian-production, it’s a sad time for the Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore —

Garage ornament heaven auction to take place in July
Calling all petrolheads — R.A. Proctor Auctioneers will be hosting the auction to cure your winter blues. The automotive, garagenalia, associated memorabilia, and vehicle auction

Something for everyone: 20B powered Fiat 124 battles a V8 Supercar
As we hear news of regulations being relaxed for the Supercars series, our ears are pricked up a bit. Could GT-Rs really be making a