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Like many Baby Boomers, Allan is after a change in vehicle to cope with his change in lifestyle.

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Car Buyers' Guide: Lifestyle crossover vehicles

Jocelyn lives north of Auckland, and makes two trips a month to the city. She needs a car that can cope with the commute.

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Car Buyers' Guide: Five-door commuters

Richard, his wife and their two primary school-aged kids are getting into family camping - the only problem is their vehicles are not fit for tenting life.

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Car Buyers' Guide: Safe and reliable family vehicle

Rosalie has painful, inflamed sacro-iliac joints at the base of her spine which make travel or driving uncomfortable in her Mitsubishi Lancer.

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Car Buyers' Guide: Comfortable cars

Alex is a recent university graduate who is looking to move on from her parents' 1990 Nissan Sentra hatchback and buy her first car.

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Car Buyers' Guide: Post-University cars

With four kids - aged from 16 to 22 - still at home, Rex and his partner need a people mover as the main, well, family mover.

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Car Buyers' Guide: Family mover

Malcolm is approaching retirement age and intends to work part time in the next few years. He needs a vehicle that suits his new line of work.

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Car Buyers' Guide: SUV all rounders

Carolyn has double trouble. Her teenage son and daughter are learning to drive, but she's after one automotive solution.

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Car Buyers' Guide: Cars for teens

As a tradesman not too far from retirement, Tony has a 2003 Toyota Hilux with a canopy for his work vehicle.

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Car Buyers' Guide: double-cab utes are a perfect fit

"It has given me trouble-free motoring for two-plus years and I've been really happy with it," she says. But the car has 142,000km on the clock.

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Car Buyers' Guide: looks or grunt?

Business owner Raj needs a van for work and has had a Toyota Hiace for seven years but it's time for a change.

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Car Buyers' Guide: Sentimentalism will only go so far

Roger, a mechanic who has run his own shop for the past 30 years, is a regular Driven reader and a fan of the Buyers' Guide column.

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Car Buyers' Guide: Enthusiasts for European models

"I'm heading into retirement and plan to buy a new vehicle and want to ask the sales staff all the right questions".

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Car Buyers' Guide: drivers unaware of safety features

Graham is looking to update his wheels and is unsure whether to stick with a vehicle with a manual transmission which has served him well or move to an auto.

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Car Buyers' guide: A simple gear shift has turned into a mechanical marvel with modern technologies

Juliet recently returned from London, where a great public transport network meant she didn't need a car. Back in Godzone, she's already sick of being late for work because of buses that don't come or miss the connection by 30 seconds. Time to buy a car, a small car that won't cost more than $10,000 and will provide reliable and inexpensive motoring.

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Car buyers guide: Small and economical

Russell's mate is trying to sell him his 2004 Commodore VY Executive sedan. It seems to be in good condition, Russell says, and has only 70,000km on the clock.

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Car buyer's guide: Holden Commodore

After years of engineering sophistication and refinement into their vehicles, Lexus are ever so slowly changing direction a little

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Change of direction for Lexus

It's midlife crisis time for Bob - well, not quite midlife - and he's been bitten by the classic car bug.

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Car buyers' guide: Owning a classic car can cost you

During the time I was driving Kia’s Rio, petrol prices in New Zealand had spiralled to just a few cents off a new high.

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Kia Rio has emphasis on economy

Much-modified performance cars should be treated with suspicion.

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Car buyers' guide: Much-modified performance cars

The dilemma: Jean's problem is one that seems to apply to most new car these days - the lack of good rear vision when it comes to parking or reversing.

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Car buyers' guide: Crossover quandary

Product planners in Kia's giant Korean development facility must have been working overtime in recent years.

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Rio last in a long list of Kia newbies

AS THE WORLD faces an ever dwindling fuel supply, we as a species are becoming a little nervous at the way petrol (and diesel) prices are constantly rising.

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