NZ Performance Car

Since 1996 New Zealand Performance Car has been the voice of the country’s modified import car scene. It was there to see the first import 10-second quarter mile run, there when the first official drift battle ensued, there when the first show trophies were handed out, and there to bring NZ its very first Super Lap time attack event. Each month the very best of NZ’s modified import car scene is served up. It’s New Zealand’s number 1 selling monthly motoring magazine and is New Zealand’s import performance authority and for good reason…it leaves the others for dust.

FOR THE FUN OF IT

NZ Performance Car

HERO CONTRIBUTOR RYAN HOWARD

CONTRIBUTORS

DAVE STEEDMAN CROWNED 2026 DRIFT KING

BLAKE MYLES WINS PRO SPORT DRIFT CHAMPIONSHIP

EXTCEE — STOCK MOTOR WRX RECORD

DRIFTWARS

WHEEL BURNS

VDNZ

MAX COMMITMENT • AFTER BECOMING THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TEAM TO WIN FINAL BOUT OUTRIGHT, C’S GARAGE PROVED THAT WORLD-CLASS DRIVING AND STYLE COULD COME OUT OF A SHED IN COATESVILLE. WITH A FRESHLY UPDATED FLEET, A NEW FACE IN THE CREW, AND A CONTAINER ALREADY BOUND FOR EUROPE, THEY’RE ALREADY BACK FOR ROUND TWO

REVCON RESET, REFRESHANDREBOOT FOR 2026 AND BEYOND • A NEW NAME, A NEW HOME, AND A FRESH DIRECTION. REVCON BRINGS MULTIPLE AUTOMOTIVE SCENES TOGETHER UNDER ONE ROOF, CREATING A SHOW THAT’S BIGGER, LOUDER, AND MORE DIVERSE THAN EVER BEFORE

THE PEOPLE MOVER • LOW STANDARDS’ JAY DUCA HAS BUILT SOME WILD MACHINES, BUT IT’S A $1,200 PUB CRAWLER BUS THAT MIGHT JUST BE HIS GREATEST YET!

PROVING GROUNDS: FIVE CARS THAT STOOD OUT THROUNGH THE LENS • FROM DRIFT TAXIS TO DREAM MACHINES, WE CHECK OUT FIVE STANDOUT CARS THAT CAPTURED EVERYTHING PROVING GROUNDS IS ABOUT

STARIC SHOCK • STATIC, SLAMMED, AND DRIVEN EXACTLY LIKE THAT. AFTER 15 YEARS, CONNOR MACLEOD’S SUPRA HAS REACHED A FORM UNLIKE ANY OTHER

fullform. • MEET FORM51’S THREE OEM-PLUS AMIGOS: A TRIO OF VI-RS SEDANS SO CLEAN AND INTERTWINED THAT WE COULDN’T HELP BUT TURN IT INTO A TRIPLE FEATURE

STILL BUZZING • KELLY WALDEN’S BLOWN RX-4 WAS A JAW-DROPPER IN THE EARLY 2000S, AND NOW ITS BACK TO INSPIRE A WHOLE NEW GENERATION … WELL, KINDA!

Diamonds take the strip • A VENUE SHAKE-UP AND CRISIS AT THE PUMP COULDN’T STOP THE 2026 MITSUBISHI OWNERS DAY FROM PACKING OUT THE STRIP AT NAPA AUTO PARTS DRAGWAY, MEREMERE

GODZILLA’S STOMPING GROUNDS • PACKING THE INFIELD WITH EVERYTHING FROM PRISTINE SURVIVORS TO FOUR-FIGURE MONSTERS, THE PPG NISSAN & GT-R FESTIVAL PROVED NZ’S NISSAN SCENE IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL, NO MATTER WHAT THE WINTER WEATHER THROWS AT IT

RECEIVE IT AT YOUR DOORSTEP!

A NEW CHOICE FOR MOTORSPORT FABRICATORS

LEVIN BY DESIGN • CAR BUILDS DON’T SIMPLY ‘HAPPEN’, RIGHT? WHETHER CONSCIOUSLY OR NOT, WE’RE ABSORBING A TIDAL WAVE OF INFLUENCE ALONG THE WAY, AND PERHAPS UNSURPRISINGLY, WHEN THOSE INFLUENCES ARE HARNESSED WITH A DASH OF LOGIC, A PINCH OF SKILL, AND A HEAP OFCAN-DO ATTITUDE, THE NET RESULT IS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT A WELL-BALANCED, FOCUSED CREATION. RHYS’S AE101 LEVIN MIGHT JUST EXEMPLIFY THIS NOTION

custom wiring solutions • WE CAUGHT UP WITH DREW BLEWETT, OWNER OF CUSTOM WIRING SOLUTIONS, TO TALK SHOP ABOUT HIS SPECIALISED WIRING SERVICES AND THE HIGH-SPEC WORK HE PUT INTO RHYS KNAUF’S STREET-LEGAL TRACK CAR AE101 LEVIN FEATURED THIS ISSUE

FRANKTON TYRE & ALIGNMENT • WE CAUGHT UP WITH JEREMY IRONS FROM FRANKTON TYRE & ALIGNMENT TO BREAK DOWN STREET VERSUS TRACK SETUPS AND UNPACK WHAT IT TOOK TO GET THE HANDLING PERFECTLY DIALED ON RHYS KNAUF’S LEVIN BUILD.

STREET Legal

FIX UP, LOOK SHARP • THE SECOND GENERATION OF DATSUN’S Z-CAR NEVER QUITE CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF THE MASSES LIKE THE ORIGINAL. NOTHING IS BEYOND ATTAINING COOLNESS, HOWEVER, AND THE AGGRESSIVE PRESENCE OF...