NZ Performance Car

Since 1996 New Zealand Performance Car has been the voice of the country’s modified import car scene. It was there to see the first import 10-second quarter mile run, there when the first official drift battle ensued, there when the first show trophies were handed out, and there to bring NZ its very first Super Lap time attack event. Each month the very best of NZ’s modified import car scene is served up. It’s New Zealand’s number 1 selling monthly motoring magazine and is New Zealand’s import performance authority and for good reason…it leaves the others for dust.

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NZ PERFORMANCE CAR

HERO CONTRIBUTOR DANNY WOOD

EVENT NEWS • IF YOU HAVE AN EVENT THAT YOU’D LIKE TO SEE IN THE GIG GUIDE, EMAIL EDITOR@PERFORMANCECAR.CO.NZ WITH ALL THE DETAILS

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JDM ICON • JOIN US, AS WE HIT THE TOUGE WITH THE SOUTH ISLAND’S BIGGEST AE85/86 ENTHUSIASTS, ANDREW SAUNDERS, WITHHIS1984TOYOTATRUENO—RESTOREDTOJDMPERFECTION!

REUNION DORITO PARTY • SORRY, GREENIES, BUT FROM DAWN UNTIL DUSK, THE AIR OVER TAUPŌ WAS SCENTED WITH THE INTOXICATING AROMA OF PREMIX. WE CAUGHT UP WITH 317 OF OUR MOST BRAZEN AND WILD ROTAHOLIC FRIENDS AT THE 2022 REUNION

LONG ROOF REBELLION • 340KW OF RESPONSIVE, GROCERY-GETTING, SOCCER BALL–HAULING MITSUBISHI STATION WAGON — IS THIS NEW ZEALAND’S ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE LONG-ROOFER?

THE TARMAC IDEAL • THIS MAZDARX-8 IS THE CULMINATION OF DECADES OF RACING, WITH YEARS OF LEARNEDEXPERIENCES AND TASTES WRAPPED UP IN A PACKAGE AIMED AT FULFILLING ALONG-HELD DREAM

TWIN-WEBER DATTO DELIGHT • OLD-SCHOOL UTES DON’T COME COOLER THAN THIS! RESTORING IT FROM THE GROUND UP, LEAH LEFT NO NUT OR BOLT UNTURNED WITH THE REBUILD AND REFRESH OF THIS ’80S SUNNY

HOW TO IMPORT YOUR DREAM CAR! BIG AMBITIONS

1000 HP REAR-WHEEL TERROR • JAYDEN’S S15 WAS FEATURED ON THE COVER OF NZPC ONLY A FEW ISSUES BACK. HOWEVER, JAYDEN GOT BORED WITH THE 500KW SET-UP AND THE S15 IS NOW PACKING OVER 750KW AT THE REAR WHEELS — WITH A SEQUENTIAL

NZPC STREET LEGAL 2001 TOYOTA MARK II IRV • SHANE HARRIS AGE: 39 //LOCATION: AUCKLAND OCCUPATION: DIVISION MANAGER //CORNERHUNTER

KEEPING MEMORIES ALIVE • BUCKLE UP, AARON MAI’S TAKING YOU ON A SMALL-SCALE, BIG-INSPO JDM JOURNEY — ONE HAND-MADE MODEL AT A TIME

KRISTINA DIAS AGE: 30 //LOCATION: KUMEU, AUCKLAND OCCUPATION: CATEGORY MANAGER

MATTHEW HOLT

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FUELED BY FAB • IT WILL BE FED BY A WHOLE HEAP OF AIR AND NITROUS, THANKS TO A CARBON 12LB NITROUS BOTTLE

SUPRA TO SKYLINE — THE CONTINUATION OF THE FAST AND FURIOUS SAGA • Following on from the success of The Fast and the Furious in 2001, Universal Pictures greenlit a sequel featuring an immense amount of change from the first film

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