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36 Selwyn Times Wednesday November 23 2022 HOME PROFESSIONALS Great season for inspiration Now is the perfect time to visit Southern Woods Nursery and plan your summer planting with a huge range of plants instore to provide inspiration for the warmer days. “With a good layer of mulch and efficient irrigation, you can plant many species well into the summer here in Selwyn,” says Business Development manager Rico Mannall. Southern Woods also has a great selection of dry tolerant native species such as Kanuka, Coprosma or Muehlenbeckia or exotic trees from hot/ dry climates such as bays, rosemary, olives and oaks – they have very low watering requirements once established. Heading in to festive season, a living Christmas tree could be an option such as a Pohutukawa or conifer, says Rico. Southern Woods’ team of 50 passionate staff are always on hand to help with your plant selection to suit your location, soil type and aspect. Between them they have many years of experience planting across New Zealand, with a particular knowledge of the Selwyn where many of them live. “We really appreciate the support from all our customers and our ‘local’ commitment extends to sourcing from Selwyn suppliers and businesses,” says Rico. The purpose-built retail store is filled with a huge range of options for ground cover, hedging, deciduous trees, bushes and grasses, along with spots of colour to add focus. Ornamentals and natives can add height and structure to your garden. And most are grown on site. Southern Woods can also provide on-site consultations and design landscape plans for new sections including preparing the soil for planting to get the best results. Another option is to take in your landscape plans and they can help with the supply and staging for your project. Southern Woods stocks everything you will need to refresh your garden, including premium tools, bark, fertiliser, compost, disease control products and potting mix. Delivery can be arranged across New Zealand and is a popular option for many customers, says Rico. You can visit the Southern Woods website at www. southernwoods.co.nz for more information or, even better, pop in for a visit at 1002 Robinsons Road for some inspiration and new ideas for your garden. There is plenty of free parking. Chris Smith, Plant Centre Manager, Southern Woods Got a spring planting project? Sharon CroftS LandSCape d e S ign • Consultations • Design Concepts • Planting Plans See Southern Woods for all your tree & shrub needs. Established in 1987, Southern Woods has been growing millions of quality plants for over a generation. Talk to our knowledgeable team about plant supply for your next project. - New Zealand Natives - Specimen Trees - Landscaping Plants - Ornamentals Visit our great plant centre - Open 7 days P. 329 6229 M. 0274 311 558 s-crofts@xtra.co.nz www.sharoncrofts.co.nz 1002 Robinsons Road - Between Templeton & Rolleston 0800 800 352 southernwoods.nz Canterbury Timber & Hardware Call in today for your free quote! Rural Farm Shed Series The CTH Rural Farm Shed Series is your affordable choice for feed or vehicle storage, workshop, or utility shed. Designed and engineered for Canterbury’s high wind and 0.9kpa snow loading they are available in a range of kitset sizes and prices to suit most budgets. 167 Manion Road, Rolleston P 03 347 7465 E sheds@cthl.co.nz W www.cthl.co.nz Monday-Friday: 7am-5pm Saturday: 8am-12pm GARAGE DOORS The Genuine Custom Made Garage Door Professionals 0800 661 366 info@custommade.co.nz Auckland • Christchurch • Wanaka www.custommade.co.nz
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In Christchurch Haval is managed by an enthusiastic team and they have capitalised on success they gleaned when Great Wall arrived in the city in 2012. Haval is part of the giant Great Wall conglomerate, a Chinese company that is no stranger to the automotive industry, it has been building cars and trucks since 1984 and together it and Haval dovetail nicely with a raft of commercial and family-friendly models. Mostly, though, Haval is about sport utility vehicles – H6 and Jolion, the latter an SUV available in four specification variants listing from $29,990. The pricing structure is one of the ingredients that has made Haval a popular seller here in Christchurch, the brand represents value, but you also get amazing value within the product. This evaluation focuses on a newcomer to the Jolion badge and it is a hybrid. It’s not a plug-in hybrid but more of what you would find in, dare I say it, Toyota’s hybrid system. Put simply, there is an engine and motor, the four-cylinder 1.5-litre unit drives the front wheels and charges a battery pack providing power to the electric motor that, in turn, assists the engine to accelerate and maintain pace. The Jolion Ultra hybrid sits in the market at $43,490, that’s a price that will lure many, it is also even more tempting when you consider you’ll also get a $2026 rebate back from the Government as part of its Clean Car Programme. It must also be said that the Jolion in this form has everything. It’s high in tech as well as having features for comfort and convenience. The layout is clean, tidy and comprehensive with enough digital depth to keep a Boeing pilot happy. While the graphics are extensive, it’s an intuitive and user-friendly system. Once familiar, the Jolion is as easy to drive as any SUV in today’s market. What’s more, it is familyfriendly in terms of comfort and convenience. Even at just 4.5m it’s a true five-seater with onboard space to keep five adults comfortable and contained safely. If you have cargo to carry there’s room for 390-litres behind the rear seats, with them folded flat that area extends to 1069-litres. At the other end sits a 1497cc engine. This is the same unit that powers the rest of the Jolion range except that it doesn’t get the turbocharger of its stablemates. It doesn’t need it, when you combine the outputs of the petrol engine and the electric motor there’s 139kW FUNCTIONAL: The Haval Jolion has traditional SUV values. HAVAL JOLION HYBRID: Traditional petrol engine and hybrid driveline. on tap, enough power to tackle any of today’s driving situations. Add in the strong bottom end torque flow (375Nm) you have figures that are well up to par. The hybrid system also has one other major benefit. That’s the fuel usage figures. Haval claims a fivelitre per 100km combined cycle average, during my evaluation time the readout was listing around that figure largely due to the fact that during majority of the time I had in the evaluation car it was at highway speed. Of course, this has distance benefits. When I picked up the vehicle it was showing just half a tank of fuel, yet it had well over 400km to run before the tank was empty. On that basis, up to 1000km could be achievable between fillups if sensible driving techniques are followed. To help boost fuel thrift the driveline incorporates an economy drive mode, it is one of four drive modes that can be chosen, depending on the journey ahead; the others are normal, sport or snow mode, the latter to aid traction on slippery surfaces. The Jolion in this form isn’t disgraced either in terms of acceleration. It will make 100km/h from a standstill in 8.2sec and will power through a highway overtake (80-120km/h) in around 6sec. Conscious of the evaluation car being a dealer demonstrator, • Price – Haval Jolion Ultra hybrid, $43,490 • Dimensions – Length, 4472mm; width, 1841mm; height, 1574mm • Configuration – Fourcylinder, front-wheeldrive, 1497cc, 70kW (+110kW), 125Nm (+250Nm), automatic • Performance – 0-100km/h, 8.2sec • Fuel usage – 5l/100km I didn’t travel as far as I normally would, but I did head a long way west taking in some of my favourite roads near Hororata, returning home through Dunsandel and Lincoln. The Jolion in this form is a superb highway cruiser, it is quiet and the suspension offers a perfect combination of compliance and comfort. It also handles typically of a modern SUV, and credit must be given to the suspension engineering team who have created that soft feel beneath, but not at the cost of wayward body movement in a corner. The Jolion sits quite tall at almost 1.6m, but gravitational force doesn’t work against it in a corner, the spring and damper rates are structured to keep that movement in check without overly firming spring tension. It’s fair to point out that the Jolion in all forms only has drive to the front wheels and the rear suspension is a simple torsion beam type, that being the case, the fact there is good body composure in a corner is even more remarkable. I must mention as well the Jolion rides on quality rubber, the 225/55 x 18in Kumho tyres are quiet and very informative. What’s more, there is a good footprint on the road, the driver fully aware of handling feel when quick corners are presented. Communication between the road, chassis and steering wheel is presented strongly. The car buying public are very savvy at present. There’s a lot of dialogue going on about petrol prices versus fully electric vehicles. Hybrids are there to meet those options fair in the middle. 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