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.
Do you know a charity or two doing some good in your local community?
Could they really use a new Corolla?
To say thank you to New Zealanders for making Toyota the country's best-selling car company for the past 25 years, they are giving 25 deserving Kiwi charities a new 2013 Toyota Corolla each - to use for three years!
Communities throughout New Zealand have embraced Toyota and the charities in those communities are the ones doing valiant work, often with minimal resources. Toyota, and Bowater Toyota as well, want to lend them a helping hand and say thanks to all of New Zealand. That is why we are using our website to tell as many local charities as we can about this great opportunity. And hopefully encouraging as many of you as possible to get in and vote. It is free and easy, and will only take a moment, but could make the world of difference!
Bowater Toyota are really proud to be associated for yet another year in one of the countries most important sporting events in the calendar, the Weetbix Tryathlon.
Every year, as summer winds down, the Nelson leg of this epic right of passage swings into town, and thousands of local kids get to realise a dream, and learn for themselves that not only does hard work pay off, but also that giving it a crack is one of life's most important lessons.
The turnout at the 2012 20th Annual Weetbix Tryathlon held at Tahuna Playing Field was another solid success, with a great turnout and lots of very happy kids!
For 20 years now this great community event has been changing lives, and inspiring generations of kids to be a part of the energy of youth. To channel that excited and give it a go. Everyone on the day gets a gold medal, but most importantly everyone on the day gets amazing amounts of encouragement to just do their best. This is not a race, there are no winners, just a field of very happy faces.
Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear waxes lyrical on why he picked the Toyota GT86 as his favourite car of 2012.
While driving through America recently, James May and I happened upon a car of such unparalleled awfulness that we slowed down to get a closer look. It was called a Nissan Versa, and I simply can't imagine what the design team was thinking of when they were styling it. The Austin A35, probably.
Both of us agreed it was the worst car we had ever seen and that, in all of our lives, we'd never encounter a machine that we'd like the look of less. But then, round the very next corner, we stumbled upon a Chevrolet something or other which was even more terrible. Part Chrysler PT Cruiser and part Morris Traveller, it was a disjointed mishmash of nothing that anyone likes.
And then later, while hanging around in a San Diego car park, we noticed another car. We had no idea what it was. It had four wheels, four doors and was made from metal. There were windows and doors, and neither of us could come up with a single reason why someone should have bought such a thing.
It wasn't as stupid as the Nissan and Chevy we'd seen earlier. In fact, it wasn't stupid at all. Nor was it ugly. It was nothing. It was just a car-shaped hole in the view. Later, we learned what it was. We even found out which model. But we can't remember now.
This summer Hyundai have been all about the holiday road trip experience.
They have been running a nationwide campaign (click here) to get people excited about summer trips to our top summertime destinations, featuring such iconic images as the one below, of our very own Abel Tasman National Park.There were 6 family holidays worth $2,500 up for grabs, along with a main prize of $10,000.
Living in the top of the south, in one of New Zealand's favourite summer holiday destination, it is easy to get a little complacent about competitions like this one.
Afterall, we do live right amongst it, surrounded by the majesty of the Marlborough Sounds on one side, the Southern Alps behind us, and the glorious golden beaches of Abel Tasman to the West.
However, as Marlborough Sounds locals David and Sarah Lightfoot discovered, you have to be in to win!
