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Driven<br />
Thursday <strong>November</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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2013 Mitsubishi Outlander LS<br />
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A practical performance sedan.<br />
$13,990<br />
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1999 BMW Z3 Convertible<br />
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Plug-in Prius takes charge<br />
• By Ross Kiddie<br />
I GET the impression<br />
we are on the cusp of a<br />
dramatic change in the way<br />
automobiles are built, well,<br />
more specifically, the way<br />
they are powered.<br />
Some manufacturing<br />
companies have already<br />
announced a phasing out<br />
of the internal combustion<br />
engine while others<br />
are rapidly increasing<br />
development of electric<br />
cars.<br />
Add to that the desire<br />
by many governments<br />
to increase the electric<br />
vehicle fleet, including<br />
New Zealand, and the<br />
stage is set for an electric<br />
revolution.<br />
In New Zealand at<br />
present there are several<br />
plug-in, electric-only<br />
models in our new car<br />
market, and there are many<br />
others available pre-owned<br />
through direct imports<br />
from Japan, and if you take<br />
into account the multitude<br />
of hybrid models available<br />
new, then a definite wind<br />
of change can be felt.<br />
<strong>The</strong> car that started the<br />
hybrid revolution, Toyota’s<br />
Prius, is not available here<br />
new as a plug-in, even<br />
though it is marketed<br />
extensively in Japan and<br />
the United States.<br />
However, if you are keen<br />
to join the plug-in brigade,<br />
yet find the cost of buying<br />
electric quite prohibitive,<br />
then Toyota may still have<br />
the answer. Toyota New<br />
Zealand is importing preowned,<br />
low kilometre Prius<br />
models direct from Japan,<br />
TOYOTA PRIUS PHEV: Pre-owned from Toyota’s<br />
Signature Class operation.<br />
they are refurbished at<br />
Toyota’s Thames Signature<br />
Class facility before offered<br />
to the dealer network.<br />
Toyota New Zealand<br />
made one of these available<br />
for evaluation, and the first<br />
thing you notice is that it<br />
still has that easy-to-drive<br />
operation that we have<br />
come to know in Prius, it<br />
is intuitive and the hybrid<br />
system is still very much<br />
intact, the plug-in facility is<br />
an extra, it’s there to offer<br />
electric-only travel.<br />
When battery energy<br />
runs low, the four-cylinder<br />
1.8-litre petrol mechanism<br />
cuts in to work in the way<br />
that hybrids have now<br />
become familiar.<br />
Because the evaluation<br />
car was pre-owned I didn’t<br />
take stock of the fuel usage<br />
benefits Prius offers, except<br />
to say new Prius is rated<br />
with a 3.4-litre per 100km<br />
(82mpg) combined cycle<br />
fuel usage average.<br />
<strong>The</strong> plug-in effect<br />
wouldn’t alter that figure,<br />
it’s just that by plugging it<br />
in and charging you are<br />
effectively prolonging the<br />
time before petrol power<br />
cuts in.<br />
Of course, there are<br />
buttons to alternate<br />
between the two power<br />
sources at the driver’s<br />
discretion, but the Prius<br />
in this form is intuitive,<br />
it does things in its own<br />
way so seamlessly that the<br />
driver needn’t know what<br />
is going on under the<br />
bonnet.<br />
New Zealand buyers<br />
have been served well by<br />
the beautifully-presented<br />
models from Toyota<br />
Signature Class operation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> evaluation car was<br />
pristine, showing just<br />
17,000km. Similar models<br />
are listing for around<br />
$35,000.<br />
That represents a huge<br />
saving against some of the<br />
new electric-only models<br />
in today’s market here.<br />
Holden Equinox here<br />
• By Ross Kiddie<br />
HOLDEN NEW Zealand<br />
has launched a new sport<br />
utility vehicle.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Equinox is priced<br />
from $35,990 and is available<br />
in seven front and<br />
four-wheel-drive variants<br />
spreading to $59,990.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are four engine<br />
options on Equinox, two<br />
four-cylinder petrol engines<br />
of 1.5-litre and 2-litre (both<br />
turbocharged), or the choice<br />
of either a 1.6-litre turbo<br />
diesel or 2-litre turbo diesel.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Equinox has a range<br />
of innovative features<br />
including in-cabin active<br />
noise cancelling, driver<br />
seat alert warning function,<br />
nine-speed automatic<br />
transmission, a variety of<br />
active and passive safety<br />
systems as well as an extensive<br />
range of trim levels.<br />
“We’re hugely excited to<br />
have a brand new, technology<br />
rich and feature<br />
laden dynamic addition to<br />
our range and now have<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
HOLDEN EQUINOX: Choice of four engines.<br />
a model which will command<br />
attention in the lights including a total of<br />
model which offers high-<br />
fastest growing and largest six frontal and side impact<br />
new vehicle segment in the air bags, 17in wheels, Apple<br />
country,” said managing CarPlay/Android Auto,<br />
director of Holden New passive entry push-button<br />
Zealand Kristian Aquilina. start and rear park assist<br />
“Its launch here in New with rear camera.<br />
Zealand represents the All models in the range<br />
latest arrival in Holden’s feature active noise cancelling<br />
technology which<br />
ongoing rejuvenation<br />
which will see the launch helps to create a quiet cabin<br />
of 24 new models between environment.<br />
2016-2020.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> range will be available<br />
from Holden dealers<br />
<strong>The</strong> new range starts with<br />
an LS front-wheel drive early next month.
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