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.
This winter the team at Bowater Honda are one of the driving forces behind the exciting winter promotion "Feast for the Senses" - happening all over Nelson city during the frosty month of July. We have come onboard with festival organisers Uniquely Nelson, in support of this great mid winter's collection of great activities from Movable Feasts through to Deep in the Bleak - a series of awesome musical concerts happening at Old St John's in Hardy Street.
Up for grabs with the Jazzy Selfie Competition is a Feast for the Senses Nelson City Experience - it is the chance to have a full on awesome weekend of completeness courtesy of Uniquely Nelson, Bowater Honda and a bunch of great Nelson retailers. This is a fully awesome prize and it is soooo easy to enter!
Hayden Paddon flying through the Rally Italy course. Click to enlarge.
Paddon and co-driver John Kennard marked their first anniversary with Hyundai Motorsport by creating a double podium finish with Belgium team-mates Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul for the World Rally Championship’s newest manufacturer.
Paddon and Kennard led the rally from the start of Friday’s action – the first New Zealanders to lead an overseas WRC event – and only relinquished that lead on Saturday afternoon’s loop after leading the rally outright for 15 stages. They delivered Sunday’s results exactly to plan, securing their fourth stage win of this rally and safely getting to the finish despite some niggles with their Hyundai i20 WRC car.
Paddon described his first-ever WRC podium finish – the best result by a New Zealander in an overseas WRC rally – as a dream result.
Paddon said: “To finish on the podium is an absolutely amazing feeling. Words can’t really do justice to how I’m feeling right now.
The team at Bowater Hyundai are very proud of what Hayden has achieved, and super excited to have him coming to our dealership in a few short weeks. If you are a fan of motorsport, or a keen to meet a top level athlete performing at his peak on the world stage, set aside some time on Tuesday July 14th. This a great chance for everyone to come along and get a chance to meet this amazing driver at the peak of his career over the course of the day. There will be several opportunities at several different events planned.
The response to the podium placing for Paddon and his co-driver John Kennard has been intense as the media takes notice of this rising star that has been working hard on his craft for many years now.
The 2015 Toyota Le Mans racing entry. Click to enlarge.
Toyota will be looking to do a “David” on the “Goliaths” of endurance sports car racing at the Le Mans 24 Hours on 13 and 14 June.
The French race, first held in 1923, is the jewel in the crown of the World Endurance Championship, which Toyota won last year, becoming the first Japanese manufacturer to do so.
The team’s pair of TS040 Hybrids will face three cars teams from Audi, Nissan and Porsche this year.
In the opening two rounds of the World Endurance Championship this year Toyota only has a third place at Silverstone to show for their efforts.
"We have made improvements in lap times since last year,” said Toyota Motorsport GmbH race director Rob Leupen. “But it was not enough. We're going to Le Mans now as the underdog."
Toyota won five of the eight rounds of the championship in 2014 and Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Beumi, who were paired together all season, jointly won the Driver’s Championship.
Bowater Hyundai and Isuzu are looking for a new Workshop Technician to join their highly skilled team at the central Nelson premises.
Click here to see the Trade Me Jobs Listing, where you can subit your details and find out more.
