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The Right Ride for Heavy Loads
Factory suspension is built to do a little bit of everything, which is precisely the problem. Kiwis are big on towing, and if your weekends involve hitching up the boat, the caravan, the horse float […]
Belt Up: The 1919 Collection by Parisian
All made in New Zealand with premium leathers. Humanity has been surprisingly inventive when it comes to not being caught with its pants down. We’ve tried rope, sashes and drawstrings. The Victorians hoisted their trousers […]
The Hollywood Gold Rush for YouTube Creators Is On: Money in the Backrooms
Once upon a time, aspiring directors made videos on home VHS cameras to show their friends, scratching the creative itch that might one day become a career. Today, those same personalities are drawn to platforms […]
Time Pieces
Designed For Those Who Live Fast – TAG Heuer Monaco Split-Seconds Chronograph I F1
Tag Heuer’s booth at Watches and Wonders was completely married to motorsport with two F1 cars decorating the booth. Their attachment to the sport goes almost all the way back to the debut of the […]
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Goodwood Revival
At the intersection of history, culture, and sheer mechanical brilliance, the 2023 Goodwood Revival unfolded this September in an explosion of colours, sound, and speed. From the rumble of engines to the swish of […]
Watches & Wonders 2024: Panerai
Submersible QuarantaQuattro Luna Rossa Ti-Ceramitech How do we feel about celebrating other America’s Cup teams? Let’s say this is one page is neutral ground so we can talk a little about Italy’s Luna Rossa team […]
M2 AI Summit
Habits of High Performers
James Laughlin has spent his career in the company of champions and not just in the pipe band world, where he’s a seven-time world champion drummer or his award-winning podcast. As a high-performance coach, he’s […]
3 Years of AI Madness and What It Means for Business
Dr Peter Catt, Director of Quantum & AI, Virtual Blue Peter spearheads the integration of advanced AI, machine learning, and automation into business strategies and solutions. Holding a doctorate in applied computing, he brings deep expertise […]
How to Future-Proof Your Organisation Amid Accelerating Change
In a wide-ranging fireside discussion, Mark Bregman explored the growing tension between the accelerating pace of technological change and the organisational structures that struggle to adapt to it. Drawing on decades of executive leadership at […]
Cars
Rolls-Royce Enters the Dragon
You probably will have noticed by this stage of the magazine that this is the Year of Dragon. While Swiss watch brands have done a pretty good job of a bit of horological celebration, Rolls-Royce […]
A Glorious Drive – The 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed
Let’s get the obvious out of the way, this is an extremely pleasant place to be. The car welcomes you like a prince into unlimited luxury. Understatement is the name of the game here, it’s […]
Off-Road With The Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato
The creative team behind the video promo for the 2023 Lamborghini have been really getting into dirt. In fact according to the very deep voice over “dust is gold, dirt is for the bold”. This […]
Fashion
Zegna’s Oasis of Cool
All Mads Mikkelsen needs to do these days is get dressed in a layered black suit and smoke a cigarette while walking to a Zegna show in Milan and he’s in the news. Sure, he […]
Maduro Shop The Look
Just because special forces have swung through your window, killed all your security guards, knocked out your entire military defence systems and smuggled you onto a black helicopter to god knows where doesn’t mean you […]
Five Pieces of Style to Up Your Game This Month
PARISIAN CRAFTED PARISIAN’S CRAFTED COLLECTION DRAWS ON OVER 100 YEARS OF MAKING RIGHT HERE IN NEW ZEALAND. Genuine materials – Small batch editions – Made to last. The leather business tote combines slim, minimalist proportions […]
Drink
We found Our New Favourite Auckland Rooftop Bar
If we have learnt anything from Hangover 2, it is that a cool rooftop bar makes everything okay. I’m not sure that is the main takeaway, but it is an important one. There’s just something […]
A Structure For Your Tasting
Whisky tasting, you’ve got a selection of bottles in front of you, a collection of mates beside you and you’re ready to go. The problem is; how are you going to do it? Sip the […]
Go Alcohol Free with Free AF
There’s a lot of booze on the following pages so let’s start things off on an alcohol free note. The team at Free AF are back at it again with a cocktail in a can, […]
Success
How to go from Operator to Business Leader
In any industry, being good at the work does not mean you are good at the business. Going to market, pricing properly, building systems, maintaining standards, hiring and developing people, and keeping enough work in […]
The Long Game: Why Property Still Rewards Those Who Think Differently
Property investing is getting a bit of a beat-up at the moment. Interest rates have reset expectations. Lending is tighter. And some economic experts seem to be having hernias about the future of property. But […]
Stephen Kurzeja – On AI, Infrastructure and New Zealand’s Chance to Lead
As Chief Technology & Information Officer at 2degrees, Stephen Kurzeja is helping shape the digital infrastructure that underpins how New Zealand connects. With AI rapidly moving from hype to implementation, Kurzeja sees more than just […]
Man Made
Lots of Bark and Plenty of Bite
Oh, boy, this is fun! The Triumph Bobber 1200 is a surprising bike. It’s surprisingly good, surprisingly fast, surprisingly comfortable and surprisingly easy to ride. The original bobber was basically an unsprung bike with a […]
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 BMW R 1250 R is an axe in a world of knives
What is it? A naked sports bike? A street bike? A roadster? It’s all of them and none of them. The BMW R 1250 R is an axe in a world of knives. From carving […]
Innovation
Willow: An Infinitely Huge Game-Changer
So, Google have built a new quantum computer ‘Willow’ that, apparently, is a really, really big deal. For those of us who pay only minor attention to such scientific announcements, they usually sound like this: […]
This NZ Company Is Programming Plants With Light
It’s incredible how far humanity has come with plant life in our race to create crops that can keep up with our ever-increasing demands. This started with cross-pollination and breeding plants that were more suitable […]
14 Pieces of Tech Making 2025 Worth Existing In
Belkin Switching It Up The Switch 2 has a battery life of between 2 and 6.5 hours depending on how intense the game you’re playing is. Super Mario Odyssey will drain it’s power in two […]
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