RobiNZ Personal Blog

Italdesign @ 33

Automotive.com have a great article celebrating Italdesign’s 33 rd Anniversary. They feature a range of concept and production cars, both exotic and everyday. Italdesign excelled at both, two of which... Read more →

Grant Dalton on Bloomberg TV

Valencia Sailng have the web version and it’s worth a watch. Grant Dalton is his usual frank self on the future of Team NZ and the America’s Cup: Valencia Sailing: Grant Dalton talks to Bloomber... Read more →

Sergio Marchionne, Fiat, on the Global Finance Crisis

Sergio Marchionne’s views are well worth reading. Truthdig - Reports - Fiat Chief on the Global Finance Crisis Read more →

Ford Ferrari, what would it have been like?

MotorTrend pose this question and speculate on how it would have changed history. I doubt Ferrari would be the jewel it is with the US Accountants in charge. While Ford manufacturing muscle helped... Read more →

Traffic Light Thought - A close shave, a long shave?

How can you shave with an electric razor, like the gentleman glimpsed in the rear vision mirror during the rush hour crawl, for over 20 minutes Read more →

Is it Formula 1 or Formula One?

Seems like both are used, even on the official site; www.formula1.com/ is run by Formula One Administration Ltd And used both ways on their site; 20 Mar 2008 – The BBC wins rights to UK... Read more →

Spam Delights...

Mailwasher lets you see the spam, and delete it, before you download it but sometimes it’s actually worth reading: What a pace… In just as little as 2 *weeks* you can have a masters degree... Read more →

Airport Lasers - criminal nuisance or attempted murder?

I was “lasered”, with a small red dot presentation type, while driving over the harbour bridge the other night. It was distracting until I worked out what it was, but still wonder where it was coming... Read more →

I know the identity of Aussie Stig!

It should have occurred to me at the time. A famous Aussie auto-blogger suddenly announces he’s giving up , actually scaling down, blogging because of work, family and other commitments. Then a week o... Read more →

Peter Bromhead, New Zealander of the year

To get this paragraph in “Granny Herald”* was worthy of the highest honour. Peter Bromhead’s column in the Business section of today’s NZ Herald paper was about the perils of publishing: * For o... Read more →