Finally an post thats actually about cars...

A car review! Cool! Thanks Dave, that's what I wanted all along. More posts like this please.

Dave, beeing a keen car enthusiast, it appears nz is well deprived in the vehicle market, not just by the big brands but by Kia and Hyundai alike. For example the Hyundai genesis sports coupe (available to the North American Market) never ventured here, not only is there no vehicles close to this (the Tiburon is FF, the Genesis FR)in the market price range, but manufacturers seem to think nz has no interest in sports cars or high performance sedans, e.g. toyota MarkII Verossa, etc. Somehow the Vitz RS doesnt quite makeup for the fact the Levin BZR was not made available for the NZ market yet are amazingly popular as imports. Not to mention the Corolla RunX Z, with its up specced 2ZZGE engine, 6 Speed and higher grade interior than any locally available model in NZ. Again, imports is the only option.

Should Kia care about Australasia? No, of course not. We are are microscpic market and they probably don't worry about it. We are a bit too egocentric here.

Hey wait a minute, a Dave motoring blog that didn't get around to making a point by trotting out the road toll and was about a car. Well done!

More importantly, will China market the Hummer here. Damn, they won't care either.

Its obviously not cost effective to bring the Cee'd here. That means it would likely be either; too expensive, or competitively priced but with a very low margin for dealers. The market for them here in NZ would probably be smaller than Kia's worldwide press fleet of the Cee'd. NZ gets what Australia does. There is no way around that except through private importing.

And to the above comment about all of the performance cars; put simply, you are dreaming. There is no way theat companies would bring those sorts of cars in. Who buys them? Young people. Why do they buy them? Because they are affordable. In NZ young people don't buy new cars, they are only popular because they are cheap imports. You really don't understand the new car market do you?

With the size of our market there are already far too many different cars here. Too many models drives down the demand for spares which, in turn, drives down availability and drives up prices.

Roll on generic small cars. People buying small cars really don't care that much about image etc. All you really want in this bracket is something low cost to buy and run, reliable and safe.

Anyone living in NZ does so for reasons other than having a huge selection in cars.

Yes, finally a car post of a motoring blog.......

Still cant believe you're on about the Cee-d, Dave. There's far more important cars we dont get here. As good as the Cee-d may be, (and I'm sure it is, judging by media reviews), NZers wont really care. If car buyers were car enthusiasts, is there any possible reason everyone buys a Corolla?? How about cars like Mazda's new "i" models, avaible in Europe. They already sell 2s and 3s here, why cant we get stop start versions of these cars? Isnt that just a mechenical upgrade (similar to having a different engine) rather than a body change which may require compliance?

Meh, looks like we'll have to get these via grey imports as well......

i came accross this blog when trying to find something on comparison between cee'd and pro cee'd...

i must tell you, you are a very rare negative opinion-giver...

there is not much truth in what you are saying... these are excellent cars, made for europeans, by the europeans...

well... you are not in europe :)

Get over it Dave and anyone else whinging about a little piece of Korean rubbish with a pathetic name not being available in NZ. Seriously can you write a blog about a decent car for once.