Lights Camera Action! Our new Bowater Honda show room gets lit up.
Our friendly team outside the new showroom on Achilles Ave. From left: Pete Ransby (Parts & Service Manager), Nick D'Evereux (Sales Manager), Pam Hogg (Administrator), Sheryl Wearing (Sales Consultant) & Chris Bowater (CEO).
It was all go last night as the lights got switched on for the first time and we took our first official photos of the new Achilles Avenue Bowater Honda showroom.
It was a beautiful evening with the threat of a few showers, but that didn't stop us as we were too excited to move some cars in and switch on the lights.
The aim was to get a photo that we could use in our coming promotions and to start letting the good people of Nelson and Tasman know that we are officially on the move now that the lights are going to be on.
The new showroom looks absolutely stunning, and the new lighting system is going to do an excellent job of shining a light on the great range of vehicles the we are selling through the dealership. The official move in date is Monday 6th January 2014 - come on down and take a look for yourself.
Intrado concept to demonstrate Hyundai Motor’s continuing commitment to innovation
At the 2014 Geneva Motor Show Hyundai Motor is set to unveil Intrado, an iconic concept car that confirms the company’s ongoing commitment to innovation by previewing future developments for the brand.
Intrado is built around a super-lightweight structure made from a mixture of advanced materials and joined using a revolutionary technique that has the potential to change the way cars are constructed in the future. The car also features a next-generation hydrogen fuel cell drivetrain that is both smaller and lighter than that powering the assembly-line-produced Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell.
Intrado will be the first Hyundai concept car to feature styling inspired by Fluidic Sculpture 2.0, the latest iteration of Hyundai’s design language. The result of close collaboration between Hyundai Motor’s design and engineering teams, Intrado was styled and engineered primarily at Hyundai Motor European R&D centre in Rüsselsheim, Germany – as indicated by its codename, HED-9 (Hyundai Europe Design).
Intrado takes its name from the underside of an aircraft’s wing, which produces lift, enabling flight to take place. The advanced technical aspects of Intrado also take inspiration from aircraft, such as the use of advanced materials, removal of all unnecessary weight, a style born solely of purpose, and a highly efficient powertrain.
Peter Schreyer, President & CDO of Hyundai Motor Group, commented: “Hyundai Intrado envisages a motoring future that encapsulates the efficiency and freedom associated with flying. I believe in the power of mobility to deliver emotional as well as physical connections and this car helps us find again the joy of discovery. Intrado shows that future cars can be both relevant and exciting.”
More information about Intrado will be revealed ahead of the 2014 Geneva Motor Show.
Hyundai Santa Fe wins "4WD of the year" award
Hyundai’s latest Santa Fe 4WD has won the New Zealand Company Vehicle magazine’s Business 4WD of the Year award, as well as NZ4WD magazine’s Medium SUV of the year.
The Santa Fe, which was launched in March this year, provides a great all round package according to Managing Editor John Oxley.
“The new Santa Fe is a deeply impressive machine,” said Mr. Oxley. “It has all the ingredients to continue selling well,” he said. “It’s well equipped, well built and undeniably handsome.”
Like all the winners of the various different classes of business vehicles, which New Zealand Company Vehicle honours, the Santa Fe offered more new technology to provide better safety systems, reductions in fuel consumption and improved emission levels, as well as a better driving environment, said Mr Oxley.
The magazine’s did not only consider the Santa Fe’s on road performance but also its running costs and usefulness for the tasks it is asked to do, he said.
“Santa Fe has certainly been successful for us,” said Andy Sinclair, the General Manager of Hyundai New Zealand. “It’s found a place with business and fleets as well as private buyers, an indication it is meeting the needs of anybody in the market for a medium 4WD vehicle.”
Bowater Hyundai on Hardy Street in central Nelson has got a great range of Hyundai Santa Fe's in the showroom for you to test drive for yourself and see what all of the fuss is about.
You can read the New Zealand Company Vehicle magazine’s initial review of the Hyundai Santa Fe by clicking here.
Steve Phipps properly guesses the Prado Proper Crisp Propertunity
Andrew Board from the Nelson Weekly takes a photo for the paper of Ned & Mina (owners of Proper Crisps), Steve Phipps and Tony Bowater (CEO Bowater Toyota).
In the last week of November a casual stroll around the Richmond Mall whilst his wife shopped has certainly been a propertunity worth it's weight in crisps for local man Steve Phipps of Richmond.
Steve correctly guessed the number of Proper Crisp packets packed perfectly into the brand new Toyota Prado. And by correctly he guessed the actual number, 736.
Many came within 5 bags, and given the thousands of entries we had over the week it was fantastic to have a clear and absolute winner!. A Proper winner if you will.
For Steve's trouble he has won a month's supply of Proper Crisps, and a couple of car grooms from the team at Bowater Toyota to get all those crisp crumbs out of the back seats once the grandkids have been in the car munching on Proper Crisps over the holidays.
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