M2 Magazine – December 2025 Issue
Kojima Making Games Meet Movies
If there’s one person we weren’t expecting to see mooching around the Prada Spring Summer 2025 catwalk it was Hideo Kojima. Although it makes a whole lot more sense knowing he was there in the […]
The Talent Needed to Fill the AI Skill Gap
James Laughlin, High-Performance Leadership Strategist & Executive Coach A globally recognised expert in high-performance leadership and personal mastery, based in Christchurch, James is a seven-time world champion musician. He now channels his exceptional mental discipline […]
25 Years of Laughter
25 years ago, John Bishop stumbled into the brown-bricked Frog & Bucket Comedy Club on Oldham Street in Manchester on a Monday night, slightly depressed after divorcing his then-wife and looking for something to do. […]
Time Pieces
Where Do You Go After You Buy the rarest watch on earth? Back to Casio: Zuckerberg’s Latest Rare Watch
Mark Zuckerberg, tech billionaire, Meta overlord and recreational jiu-jitsu enthusiast likes his watches. Last year he donned a $900,000 Greubel Forsey to announce a policy shift about Facebook’s “truth policing” and in a recent a […]
Watches and Wonders 2024: A. Lange & Sohne
DATOGRAPH UP/DOWN To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their first chronographic movements A. Lange & Söhne is adding two very special editions of the DATOGRAPH to their portfolio. The first of which is this stunning […]
Watches And Wonders 2024: Hublot
SQUARE BANG UNICO Everybody wants a Bang these days. The Square Bang started life as an everyday wearable made of titanium, but as demand increased it slowly got propelled into a luxury item. This has […]
M2 AI Summit
From Grassroots to Global: The Tauranga Tech Entrepreneur Giving NZ Inc a Seat at the AI Table
Tim Boyne didn’t grow up dreaming of IPOs and founder exits. He wasn’t raised in a house where startup valuations were casual conversation. Instead, he grew up in Tauranga, raised by a solo mother who, […]
Taming the Risks of AI to Unleash Innovation with Confidence
Raffaella del Prete tackled a crucial, often overlooked question in the race to adopt AI: what are the operational risks, and how can they be managed without slowing innovation? Her keynote explored the realities of […]
AI And Mining… Actual Mining
Mining veteran Bill Haylock delivered a keynote that delved into the intertwined connection between AI and the mining industry. “AI is science, right? It’s part of the science gig,” Haylock began, drawing parallels between past […]
Sheer Driving Pleasure
BMW M3 Touring Competition – The Family Supercar
Handsome looking inside and out, you can tell this M3 Touring Competition means business, yet it’s hard to tell just how good it is until you drive it. The interior is very similar to the […]
The 2025 edition of the BMW M5 is fast, potent and muscular
There is absolutely no hiding that this car is enormous in just about all ways It’s long, it’s wide, it’s quite tall, it’s unbelievably powerful, and it’s heavy. The 2025 edition of the M5, often […]
The BMW i5 M60 – The Absolute Pinnacle
Driving the BMW i5 M60 xDrive and I wonder to myself… “Where can cars go from here? Is this the pinnacle?” The handling is superb, suspension so smooth it glides over just about anything you […]
Cars
Kiwis Don’t need an DMC to go back to the future anymore.
Only a couple thousand Delorians ever got made, of that number only a handful are knocking around New Zealand, last count from a decade ago pegged it at about 14 registered. Now these local DMCs […]
2025 Toyota GR86 Hakone edition: Driven!
Toyota has launched the Hakone edition of their sports car, the GR86 using the 86 GT as the base car. You probably know that GR is short for Gazoo Racing, and is the indication of […]
The 2025 edition of the BMW M5 is fast, potent and muscular
There is absolutely no hiding that this car is enormous in just about all ways It’s long, it’s wide, it’s quite tall, it’s unbelievably powerful, and it’s heavy. The 2025 edition of the M5, often […]
Fashion
R.M. WIlliams Wants to give you summer
R.M. Williams is bringing the summer apparel in style with a new range of warm weather footwear, lightweight apparel and adventure-ready accessories. Pick up some linen shirts in warm vintage colours perfect for lounging or […]
Prepare For Winter With The Z Zegna FW Collection
We’re coming out of the sweltering summer months and arriving into the cooler seasons. That means it’s time to start rethinking our wardrobe. Z Zegna has once again brought a Fall/Winter 2021 collection that breaks […]
Results Over Excuses
Trent Bradley wears: Henry Navy POW Check Suit $1,299 (SDC804), Willard White Textured Essential Shirt $169 (CFNQ0021), Navy Prep Tie $189 (TIG006) From Working Style For more than two decades, Trent Bradley and his team […]
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Super Cars: One is Never Enough
Photography by Jake Hoare Supercars are fantastic incredible machines, but what if you can’t choose? Various manufacturers have subscription services. Choose a car from their brand stable based on your mood. This works great if […]
McLaren Giving the Light Touch
Mclaren is getting smaller, lighter, more powerful. The brand new McLaren 750S is the lightest and most powerful series-production McLaren yet, with a dry weight of just 1,277kg. That’s 193kg less than its closest competitor, […]
The McLaren W1, It’s The One
The pinnacle of automotive performance is an ever moving target and with McLaren’s racing heritage, the challenge is fundamental to the brand. Following the legendary F1 and the paradigm-shifting hybrid P1, the company faced the […]
Drink
This New Kiwi Drink Is Set to Go Global
It doesn’t matter how smart we think we are as humans – Nature always turns out smarter, stronger and just plain better than us every time. That’s what Wai Manuka Sparkling Water Taught us. Being […]
Making it Suntory Time For 100 Years
When it comes to Japanese Whisky there’s none more iconic than Suntory. It’s been a house of innovation, constantly reinventing itself for several generations as it marks its 100th anniversary. It’s become known for it’s […]
Coffee & Whisky the Way They Should be Enjoyed – Together!
The end of a fine meal; what better time to have a cup of hot, rich, flavourful coffee? Funnily enough, this is also the ideal time to sit back and reflect on the successes of […]
Success
Liam Lawson on Focus, Kiwi Mentality, and the Baku Challenge
Formula 1 is an octane and ego fuelled sport, so that makes New Zealand driver Liam Lawson a breath of pretense free humble air. In the days before the Visa Cash App RB driver prepared […]
The Dynamo6 Effect
When Igor Matich arrived in New Zealand as a 14-year-old immigrant from war-torn Croatia, he didn’t speak English, didn’t know anyone, and had no idea what the future held. But what he did have was […]
The Structure of Success
Chef, restaurateur, entrepreneur, father and new Samsung ambassador, Josh Emett, has achieved a lot in his life already, but by the way that he maximises his time, we can be sure that there is more […]
Man Made
Classic Style Modern Tech
Photography by Jake Hoare The R12 is the latest iteration in BMW Motorrad’s retro lineup, replacing the popular R nineT. It offers a blend of classic styling and modern technology, to satisfy both nostalgic riders […]
The TE-1 – An Electric Triumph?
In the transportation transition to electrical, you really have to feel the sorriest for motorbike designers. Unlike other vehicles who can hide their propulsion away under some fancy industrial design, motorbikes (as their name would […]
The Lotus Eletre R
Photography by Jake Hoare The Lotus Eletre is enormous, vast, and that there’s nothing else quite like it. It’s kind of taken the sports SUV and put it on a course of aggressive body sculpting […]
Innovation
The 2021 Christmas Gift Guide For The Modern Man
We’ve compiled our top pick’s for the dad, brother, friend or other man in your life. Here is the M2 2021 Christmas Gift Guide. Montblanc Explorer Ultra Blue When you give a gift, remember first […]
The Palace
Gin is in the midst of a renaissance, and many believe that we have Hendrick’s to thank for that. Back in the late 90s Hendrick’s Master Distiller, Lesley Gracie, started experimenting with small batch gin. […]
Fitbit has Now Taken Over Your Bathroom
Fitbit, most well known for telling how well you’re doing on your run and general activity has now branched into telling you how much you weigh every morning as well. They’ve recently unveiled its Fitbit Aria […]
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