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.
Toyota Global announced last week that it would use the Tokyo Toy Show to showcase an update to the odd-looking Camatte concept car it debuted last year. A car that if it makes it's way into showrooms would be quite a conversation starter, and being an all electric vehicle capable of customisation and complete individualisation would certainly turn heads!
At the event they revealed the ultimate toy car, one that is designed to bring families together and teach youngsters how to drive. Acceleration and braking pedals and seats can be adjusted to enable operation by children, while an adult seated in the rear-right seat assists steering and braking to help develop the child's driving skills.
Toyota says the new Camatte57s is aimed at "bringing parents and children closer together as they work in collaboration on building their ideal car".
The vehicle body exterior consists of 57 detachable small lightweight panels to allow easy and extensive color and design customization.
This video from Toyota shows the concept in a typically quirky way, complete with quite a full on soundtrack!
Kieron Reilly ( Parts Manager Bowater Toyota), Emma King-Turner, Tony Bowater (CEO Bowater Toyota
The Bowater Motor Group is very proud of it's employees. Everyone is treated as part of the family, and as such it is important for everyone that works at Bowaters to be able to achieve their full potential. When someone shows interest in taking on more responsibility and upskilling themselves, management at Bowaters take notice, and work hard to make it happen.
This week we enjoyed yet another proud moment behind the scenes of the Bowater Motor Group, as Emma King-Turner, our parts advisor from Bowater Toyota received her National Certificate in Business.
Emma has invested a considerable amount of her "free time" into achieving this qualification, as well as gaining the support of management at Bowater Toyota to enable her to attend the work time courses at MITO (Motor Industry Training Organisation) over the year she has been studying.
Bowater Honda are very excited about the brand new Honda Jazz Hybrid. It is a remarkable little car - so easy to drive, so easy to park, and now even easier on the wallet with a penny pinching hybrid model new onto the market.
Honda are very proud of all their Jazz. There is an auto and manual version of the Jazz S, two different engine sizes to chose from, as well as the Jazz Sport, and now the Jazz Hybrid. Overall they are a bunch of snappy little numbers that will get you moving!
They not only look great, but are very easy on the petrol, making them a perfect around town car. Not only that but they also come complete with the wonderful Honda Magic Seats system - a unique way of creating a vast amount of storage and cargo space, allowing you to carry things a lot bigger than you would think you could fit it!
Honda have decided to reward those that take the opportunity to test drive the Honda Jazz with the chance to win one! Simply take a test drive of any model Honda Jazz between 15 May 2013 and 31 October 2013 and we will automatically enter you into the draw to win a brand new Honda Jazz, any model of your choice!
Marty Stevenson (seated) from Bowater Honda explaining brake light bulb replacement to the group through interpreter Paul (black & white jacket)
Being a refugee is no barrier to keeping your car on the road.
There is a wonderful saying that you can give a man a fish and that will feed him for a day, but if you teach that man HOW to fish, you will feed him for a lifetime.
A group of former refugees now have some valuable skills to keep their vehicles on the road thanks to Bowater Honda, and in particular our Service Technician Marty Stevenson. For the second time in 12 months he has stepped up and volunteered his time to teach a fresh and diverse group some valuable basic vehicle skills.
