The Crew
MotoringNZ's aim is simple: We're here to provide the latest in interesting New Zealand-centric motoring news, reviews and advice. We're dedicated to providing honest, impartial and fearless opinion and keeping followers up with everything in motoring influencing NZ.
Richard bosselman
OUR site editor is from a car-mad family background and has been motoring writer for more than four decades, starting on newspapers (Whanganui Chronicle, Taranaki Herald, Manawatu Standard) then progressively migrating to print magazines then the internet, initially with XtraMSN Motoring then Yahoo! New Zealand, Motoring Network and Stuff (online and Sunday Star Times).
He’s gone places, done stuff. Ferrari at Modena; Peugeots in places where the locals can be bribed into forgetting about the speed limits; a Ford in the Yukon; another through the means streets of Detroit. He’s felt extreme cold and extreme heat; been chased by cops with big guns, held Enzo’s actual purple pen, dined in Henry’s home.
Crashes? A rally car in an Army artillery range; triple rolling into a creek in the snow. Not a scratch. A Honda road car on a Japanese test track: This time hospital. He was riding shotgun on both occasions. Now he just drives. It’s safer.
Yada-ya. He’s won awards and somehow got to be the youngest member of an elite international jury to select the Car of The Century in 2000 (don’t ask, he’ll bore you to death).He lives with Carol, his wife, on a rural property near Palmerston North. They have animals, a Subaru and a Skoda and a pair of NA series Mazda MX-5s: one for the road, the other for the track.
JOSH BYRNES
ILLUSTRATOR and Podholic writer Josh Byrnes' passion for motoring started when growing up in the quiet Manawatu township of Ashhurst.
His love of car-spotting was tinged with frustration: "I absolutely hated the look of most mainstream cars from back then ... they looked like they were designed by an accountants' department. A distinct lack of imagination.”
From here a passion for automotive design grew; sketching was done whenever he could. He also started to communicate with car companies; a bold step for a schoolboy that paid off when 1990s' head of Jaguar design Geoff Lawson wrote back to advise Josh to "to follow my passion and develop my drawing skills whenever I could - which I certainly did."
After studying a Bachelor of Applied Visual Imaging, which covered a multi array of disciplines from graphic design, illustration, photography and marketing - "all of which has further helped to improve my approach as an artist" - he fell into creating spy-shot based illustrations, a skillset refined to point where renders are to standard of reality. His illustrations now feature on the Carscoops website.
Josh’s other Interests include photography, architecture, motorsport, finding great driving roads and “everything Subaru-related” (though he now owns a diesel Mazda6 wagon).
