May 16 Hang onto your steak and cheese mate it's a party!

This Friday from 6pm we are celebrating the success of the Bowater Toyota sponsored team at this years Extreme Off Road Westport Challenge which was held a few weekends ago.

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There will drinks, nibbles and videos from last month's epic Westport Challenge Extreme 4X4 event, where our team came second. They will be here with their trucks & their tall tales from the event, as well as showing video footage shot during the Westport challenge so we can all see just how wild this sport is!
There are also plenty of spot prizes up for grabs, and the chance to get properly muddy yourself at the Mt Riley Play Day 10th June.

May 11 Bowater Toyota puts on a show. Nelson has got talent!

talent-tour-kids We put on a show on Thursday as a part of the Toyota Talent Tour.
The idea was to allow those that were going to perform at today's NZ's Got Talent auditions the chance to try out their acts to a friendly crowd, gain some extra confidence, and perhaps give us all a bit of a lunch time show.

Classic Hits showed up and fired up the BBQ, the burgers were flying and the talent was more than we could have hoped for. We were lucky enough to be treated to a full hours worth of auditions including some incredible performances by JoJo Gary and Sasha Broad-Kolff.

We were lucky enough to be able to take videos from the event, including the stunning performances by JoJo Gary.

May 09 Have you got talent? Bowater Toyota wants to see

talent-tour-burgers Thursday 10th May between 12-1pm the Toyota Talent Tour hits Nelson - and it is our chance to shout!

There is such a thing as a free lunch!

Come along to Bowater Toyota at the corner of Rutherford and Halifax Street to enjoy our free BBQ, and watch some of the talent as they get ready for Friday's auditions at The Nelson School of Music for NZ's Got Talent.

It is all on - the grill that is!
There will be spot prizes and a chance to win a trip to see NZ's Got Talent in Wellington.

If you are keen to practice your audition, meet other budding contestants or chat to the Classic Hits crew come down and enjoy some free BBQ from 12-1pm.

You’ll also have an exclusive chance to go in the draw to win a family trip to Wellington to be part of the audience for the 2012 NZ’s Got Talent decider show. To go in the draw you need to collect a special code from the Classic Hits crew – look out for them in their talent tour sign-written Hilux!

May 07 Amercia's Toughest Truck is the mighty Toyota Hilux

Top Gear USA has a go at the Toughest Truck in America Challenge.

Last year the Top Gear USA team ran their very own Toughest Truck Challenge on their show. Perhaps they were trying to emulate some of the great top Gear Challenges of old, like the North Pole Challenge, which features the mighty Toyota Hilux driven by Jeremy & James conquering a traditional dog sled team with Richard Hammond holding on for dear life, on a race to the North Pole. If you haven't seen this it is a must see.

Back to the actual story.... The Top Gear USA team are tasked by producers to buy an American truck with over 100,000 miles on the clock for around USD$3000 and they head up to Alaska to test who has chosen the toughest truck. The whole time they are threatened by the mighty Toyota Hilux which is the support vehicle..... Hit "continue reading" to watch the video and more.