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    If you drive a small car, or are thinking about downsizing to a lower fuel use, more efficient smaller car for around town use, then you need to see the Hyundai Accent. This zippy little hot hatch has it all! Small on size but massive on features across the model range. We have a wide range of quality used vehicles like this one in our central Nelson Yard. Click here to find out more.

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    Toyota 86: On the Right Track!

    The Toyota 86 is a legend in the making. It is a return to the pure fun of driving. Rear wheel, front engined with a very low centre of gravity. It has been winning Car of the Year awards all over the world, including being named the Top Gear Car of 2012 when it was first released! Fun starts when you press the button. Click here to learn more. New or used, Bowater Toyota can put you on the right track!
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    The Bowater Motor Group are ready to exceed your expectations, and make it possible to drive your dream today. A local, family owned company, we have been supporting the community since 1945 - and selling what we feel are the best cars the world has to offer, and servicing all makes and models from onsite workshops we are very proud of. We have a range second to none, with new cars in the showrooms from Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Lexus, & Isuzu. There is something for everyone, at every stage, new or used.

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Get creative, get sandy & win a Santa Fe for a year!

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This summer Hyundai want you to get creative, get sandy and enjoy the best of the kiwi summer outdoors and at the beach. The incentive? You could win yourself a brand new Hyundai Santa Fe for a year!

All you have to do is get down to the beach and get building a breathtaking sand castle, then upload it to Hyundai's Facebook page and get your friends to like it.
As always, the most likes wins, so think about how you could get millions of Facebook randoms to like your sculpture and you are into win!

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New Toyota Levin adds to Corolla appeal

Corolla Levin ZR

This review appeared in the Nelson Mail January 17th and comes from the Stuff Website: written by motoring writer Rob Maetzig, using our own photos.


OK, let's get this out of the way first - the new Toyota Corolla Levin is not named after the capital of Horowhenua, even though the town is just a few kilometres south of Toyota New Zealand's head office in Palmerston North.

And anyway, if the car was named after the town of Levin it would probably have to be pronounced Levene, because apparently that was the preferred pronounciation by the family of William Levin, a director of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company after whom the town is named.

But if that happened, people would probably get all confused over whether they were buying a car or a tin of paint ...

Seriously though, in the case of the new 11th generation Toyota Corolla, the Levin badging is the revival of a name that was attached to some sporty Corollas that began to be produced from 1970. It's actually an Old English word that translates to "lightning".

None of these Levins was ever sold new in New Zealand, so the fact that two Levin models - SX and ZR - are included in the new range makes rather good marketing sense.

It is all golden at the Takaka A&P Show

The sun shone and Golden Bay put on a cracker of a day for the annual Golden Bay A&P Show held in Takaka last weekend.

Bowater Toyota headed over to the show grounds to present to the locals, and many holiday makers, the cream of the crop of what Toyota has to offer.
From left, the BMG Toyota 86, the all new 2013 Toyota Corolla Hatch, a Landcruiser 200 Series wagon and the new Toyota Landcruiser 70 Series Double Cab.

Golden Bay show

It was an early start for the Bowater's team, but none could be happier than our new sales person Jayne Collier, who had the enviable task of driving the BMG Toyota 86 over the Takaka Hill.....

Jayne leaves the radio behind to join our team

Jayne Collier

After a couple of years of being our local Radio Station advertising account manager at The Radio Network, Jayne Collier decided to unleash her passion for cars and come join the friendly team at Bowater Toyota.

She has started this week as our new salesperson in our Nelson branch, and is very excited to be able to share her enthusiam for motoring.
Jayne has always had a great love of cars, having grown up in a staunchly Toyota motoring family. Her father would only ever buy Toyota's and instilled the same brand loyalty into Jayne.

With the launch of the Toyota 86 the attraction to start as a salesperson became too great Jayne jokes, saying that joining the team was the only way Bowater Toyota CEO Tony Bowater would let her drive it!

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