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January 27-28, 2017: NZ Streetstock Grand Prix – Rotorua The grand prix is at Rotorua’s Paradise Valley Raceway promising two nights of action-packed viewing from 7pm and three superstock titles in one night. Details: www.rotoruaspeedway.co.nz January 28, 2017: Taupo Historic GP At Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park from 9am-5pm both days, The Taupo Historic GP has a field of 35 Formula 5000 and Formula One cars from the 1960s-1970s contesting the Race of Champions Revival – the first ever re-run of a race held annually at the famous Brands Hatch circuit in England. Spectators will witness one of the largest fields of the muscular Formula 5000s ever seen at Taupo. Details: www.brucemclarenmotorsportpark.com February 4-5, 2017: Leadfoot Festival, Hahei. Set in Hahei on the Coromandel, the festival is a unique annual event and brings together a mix of classic cars, vintage motorcycles and motorsport legends from NZ and around the world. New Zealand racing legend, Rod Millen, opens his private grounds at the Leadfoot Ranch to host more than 150 champion and competitive race participants. Details: www.leadfootfestival.com/leadfoot-festival/ February 18, 2017: Super Stock Rumble and Saloon Car Series – Baypark The mighty super stock cars make their only appearance for the season at Baypark Family Speedway from 6.30pm. Find out who will be the saloon car driver to win the leather La-Z-Boy chair. Also racing will be the super saloons, stock cars, mini stocks and six-shooter V6 wingless sprint cars. Details: www.bayparkspeedway.co.nz February 18, 2017: Mad Mike’s Summer Bash! Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Mazda and New Zealand drift superstar ‘Mad Mike’ Whiddett have joined forces to bring you the biggest drift event of 2017 – Mad Mike’s Summer Bash! A 16-strong field of NZ’s best drifters has already been confirmed for the headline Summer Bash event, where all will go up against ‘Mad Mike’ in a new, exciting format. Details: hamptondowns.com/mazda-mad-mike-summer-bash-feb-18th February 18, 2017: Pre-49 Street Rod Nationals’ public display – Taupo Hosted by Oceanside Street Rods, come along to hotrod heaven at the Riverside Park & Unison Amphitheatre, where more than 200 of New Zealand’s very best pre-1949 American origin Street Rods – some worth more than $200,000 – park up from 10am-2pm. Details: pre494.wixsite.com/oceansidestreetrods/public-display If you have a vehicle or motorsport listing, please email details to merle@thesun.co.nz at least two weeks prior to the event.
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Evolution of an icon
Launched in 1965, the Mustang is the only original Ford model to remain in uninterrupted production during five decades of development and refinement. Cultivating a near-mythical reputation as the quintessential affordable American freedom machine, the Mustang has become immortalised in pop culture. Dealer principal for Ultimate Motor Group Ford, John Cross, told Bay Driver: “There has only been six generations of Mustang in all this time and this is the first designed from the outset to be right-hand drive”. Ford has delivered two body styles to choose from, the Fastback coupe and Convertible. There’s two engine choices, the 2.3-litre EcoBoost turbo or 5.0-litre V8 Coyote GT – and two six-speed transmission types, manual or auto, says John.
Speed junkie
Selecting this week’s Bay Driver was a no brainer, of Moto Revolution managing director Ryan Turner is a petrolhead from way back and is a self-confessed ‘speed junkie’. As the local Kawasaki dealer, his Waihi Rd store is filled with go fast boys’ toys – and when I invited him to meet me at Ultimate Motor Group to test drive the ultimate in big boys’ toys, the Ford Mustang, he actually beat me there. While Ryan has been riding bikes all his life, he is actually pretty talented on fourwheels too. He put the Mustang through its paces with effortless skill as we took the long way to Tauranga Racing Club for our photo shoot. Lucky for me he is a good looking bugger too and was even sporting a brand new hair-do especially for the occasion. “This is one of the best-sounding V8s I have driven,” says Ryan. “Just the way you always want an eight-cylinder engine to sound, with enough instant torque
(530Nm) on tap to make six forward gears feel about four too many. I reckon second and fifth is about all you need.” Despite being a large and heavy-feeling coupe, acceleration was surprisingly rapid. It leaped off the line at the lights before Ryan and I even realised how forcefully fast through the gears the Mustang would be. However, after selecting sixth gear, with the engine barely humming above 1600rpm, we realised there is a bona fide grand touring character to this car.
The good stuff
All versions of the new Ford Mustang include the usual dual front, dual side, and curtain airbags – as well as dual front knee airbags, a rearview camera, tyre pressure monitoring, alarm, Xenon headlights with daytime running lights, fog lights, rainsensing wipers, satellite navigation and dual-zone climate control. It also gets keyless entry and start, ambient lighting, auto-dimming rearview mirrors, leather surfacing for the steering wheel, park brake, and electrically adjustable front seats – which are heated and cooled – an eightinch touchscreen, Ford’s SYNC3 multimedia and voice control system with emergency assistance, Bluetooth phone and audio streaming, USB and iPod connectivity and 19-inch alloy wheels. Additionally, there are illuminated sill plates as well as a ‘pony’ projector light that beams the Mustang motif on the ground at night when a door is opened.
Interior
There is space galore for front-seat occupants in the new Mustang. Seated in low-slung bolstered buckets, the driving position is excellent, aided by a handsome leather-clad steering wheel, clear analogue
instruments, excellent ventilation, and sufficient storage options throughout the cabin. There are a myriad of analoguelooking digital dials for water temperature, oil temp, vacuum boost, and a host of other minor engine-related readouts, providing a classic Mustang look and feel.
Ride and handling
If you’re a fan of the similarly independently sprung FPV Falcon GTs, there is a real genetic similarity to the way the three-mode electric rack and pinion steering feels, turns-in, and communicates what’s going on below. It means the helm – though happily hefty in Sport – really does connect driver and car. There’s no denying the weight of this car – 1739kg – in the Fastback V8. But with quality Pirelli P-Zero 255/40ZR19 rubber up front and 275/40 tyres on the back, the Mustang’s suspension and ride absorption are outstanding. Firm but never harsh, with a level of springing you just don’t expect, the Ford walks the fine line between comfort and athleticism. Going for the GT V8 scores you bigger brakes – 380mm x 34mm ventilated discs and Brembo six-piston 36mm fixed aluminium calipers up front, 330mm x 25mm ventilated discs, single-piston 45mm floating iron calipers out back – different patterned alloys, and wider 275/40R19 rear tyres, as well as one of the sexist exhaust notes known to humankind.
The verdict
Hard core Ford fans or American muscle car wannabe’s rejoice – this is the car for you. Be prepared to marvel at how refined yet raw and visceral the Mustang is combining thunderous performance with true grandtouring capability. With Ultimate Motor Group Ford also offering a three-year/100,000km warranty, with intervals at 15,000km or one year and rumours of two demonstrators available, there are plenty of reasons to book a test drive. Matt Batchelor
Highlighted specifications as standard • 5.0L V8 with 306kW of power and 530Nm of torque • Also available in 2.3L EcoBoost with twin-scroll turbocharger • 6-speed transmission with paddle shifters (or manual) • Electronic Stability Program (ESP) and Traction Control System (TCS) • Standard, Sport and Comfort modes • SYNC3 voice activated control system with 8” colour LCD touch screen • Fords MyKey technology • 19” alloy wheels • RRP from $59,880 + ORC (2.3L EcoBoost – Auto) Ultimate Motor Group Ford 150 Hewletts Rd, Mount Maunganui Ph 07-579 0180
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Testing the latest dynamic offerings Duncan and Ebbett Tauranga recently invited the Bay Driver team to experience their Art of Performance Tour, which is making its way through New Zealand this summer. This invitation for an urban performance driving experience gave Bay Driver an exclusive opportunity to drive the latest dynamic offerings from the Jaguar fleet through a cutting edge state-of-the-art test circuit at ASB Baypark Arena. In addition to rubbing shoulders with some of the Bay of Plenty’s most passionate Jaguar owners, Kiwi Formula E driver Mitch Evans also made a guest appearance at the event. At just 22 years old Mitch now races in the international, electric vehicle, Formula E circuit as part of the Panasonic Jaguar team. Mica Dawson of Duncan and Ebbett told Bay Driver the Art of Performance Tour is far more than just a test drive. “The Smart Cones create an exhilarating track experience, and a unique way of testing Tauranga motorists alongside a professional driver like Mitch. “The digital track is created once the car is in motion, with cones randomly illuminating as the car travels towards them, allowing a new test for each driver. “The Smart Cone course is designed to challenge driver accuracy, distance and time rather than just
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overall speed. “As well as the Smart Cones Course there will also be other activities incorporating slalom, brake-and-swerve as well as fast straights.” Mica says the vehicle’s precise co-ordinates are measured in relation to the cones and sent to a central computer system 100 times per second to track its driver’s performance. Jaguar is running five drive sessions per day across four days, with prizes for the winner of each session. The overall winner and runner-up from Tauranga’s event will be flown to Queenstown in March for the Art of Performance Tour showdown. The winner of that event travels to New York to see a round of the Formula E Street Racing series. Matt Batchelor
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