COTY

The Ford Transit Custom has claimed the first-ever Van of the Year title in NZ Autocar’s 2024 Car of the Year awards. The new Van category sits alongside others including EV, SUV, Performance, and Luxury, and while it does not progress to the overall Car of the Year crown, NZ Autocar Managing Editor Richard Edwards says its inclusion is long

Another 12 months has zoomed by and has seen us testing all the major new vehicle arrivals to the New Zealand market. Here we name our cars of the year. It was a tumultuous year for the new car industry in 2023, with fluctuating demand for vehicles influenced by the revision to the Clean Car Discount, and then its ultimate

After another 12 months of reviewing the new arrivals to the local market, we name our cars of the year. Despite the post-pandemic variances of supply and inflationary pressures, the new car market showed resilience in 2022. Sales remained high despite the global calamity, the overall figures down only slightly on the previous year’s record. Buyer behaviour has been altered

It was another crazy old year, 2021, as far as the new car market was concerned in NZ. From a downturn in 2020, it rebounded massively, setting a new record in terms of registrations. And that’s with manufacturers struggling to meet demand, most car brands having big forward order banks and supply constraints.  The trend of the year was the