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Score a massive prize-pack with Play Dead and Teng Tools

5 May, 2017

Everybody loves a bit of free stuff and thanks to the team at Play Dead, you can go into the draw to win a massive combo prize-pack

Up for grabs is a four-drawer SV-series Teng Tools Top Tool Box (TCM07SV) filled to the brim with Play Dead car care product, AND one-year subscriptions to NZ Performance Car and NZV8 magazines, valued at 600 big ones. To share the love around, we’ll also be giving away Play Dead car care packs for two other lucky entrants.

All you need to do is LIKE the Play Dead Facebook page by clicking the buttom below, fill in your details and you’re in the draw; easy. The winners will be drawn Friday, 19 May — don’t miss your chance!

Win a Play Dead and Teng Tools prize-pack

Motorman – The saga of the Temple Buell Maseratis

30 January, 2026

Swiss-born Hans Tanner and American Temple Buell were apparently among the many overseas visitors who arrived in New Zealand for the Ardmore Grand Prix and Lady Wigram trophy in January 1959. Unlike Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham, Ron Flockhart, Harry Schell and Carroll Shelby who lined up for the sixth New Zealand Grand Prix that year, Tanner and Buell were not racing drivers but they were key players in international motor sport.
Neither the rotund and cheery Buell nor the multi-faceted Tanner were keen on being photographed and the word ‘apparently’ is used in the absence of hard evidence that Buell actually arrived in this country 64 years ago.

Luxury by design

15 January, 2026

How do you define luxury? To some it is being blinded with all manner of technological wizardry, from massaging heated seats to being able to activate everything with your voice, be it the driver’s side window or the next track on Spotify. To others, the most exorbitant price tag will dictate how luxurious a car is.
For me, true automotive luxury comes from being transported in unparalleled comfort, refinement, and smoothness of power under complete control. Forget millions of technological toys; if one can be transported here and there without the sensation of moving at all, that is luxury — something that is perfectly encapsulated by the original Lexus LS400. It was the first truly global luxury car from Toyota, and one that made the big luxury brands take notice.