Dunedin Radiator & Auto Repair/Auto Sales

10/02/2026

Local photographer does unique photo shoots. Wouldn’t a causeway sunset photoshoot with your favorite vintage car be cool?

08/28/2026

Now that’s how you do it. Go Bucs!

College football season is here, y'all. If your tailgate has an upstairs, you’re ready.

07/19/2026

07/18/2026

07/14/2026

For the past decade, car dashboards have been disappearing. Buttons, dials, switches, all replaced by touchscreens. Tesla started the trend. The rest of the industry followed. Now China is ending it.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has finalised a regulation requiring all cars sold in China from July 2027 to have physical buttons for safety-critical functions. Lights, wipers, hazard warnings, gear shifting, and emergency controls must all be operable by touch, without looking at a screen.

The rules are specific. Buttons must be at least 10 by 10 millimetres. They must be clearly visible. And they must be "blind-operable," meaning a driver can use them without taking their eyes off the road.

It sounds obvious. It is obvious. But it took a regulatory mandate to say what most drivers have been muttering since the first time they tried to turn on their windscreen wipers through three layers of touchscreen menus at 100 kilometres per hour in the rain.

China isn't alone. Euro NCAP announced that from January 2026, cars relying on touchscreens for basic functions like indicators and wipers will be marked down in safety ratings. Volkswagen has already reintroduced physical controls after admitting the touchscreen-only approach made driving harder.

The touchscreen era isn't over. But the idea that every button in a car should live inside a screen is. Turns out the original interface worked fine. It was called a button 💛

07/03/2026

Graeme Hebley has been driving the same 1993 Toyota Corolla station wagon since 2000 — and has put over 2 million kilometers, roughly 1.2 million miles, on it without ever replacing the engine or transmission.

He drives almost 5,000 kilometers per week for his job as a newspaper delivery contractor, making the roughly four-hour round trip between Wellington and New Plymouth six days a week.

His mechanic John Sherman of Guthrie’s Auto Care, who has serviced the car every two weeks for over 20 years, confirmed the car still runs on its completely original engine and transmission.

“If I hadn’t worked on it, I wouldn’t believe it. I wouldn’t believe it could do two million without something going wrong,” Sherman said.

Hebley credits the car’s longevity to a combination of Toyota’s engineering and his commitment to regular maintenance.

“That era of Toyota has such built-in reliability. But if it wasn’t so frequently serviced, it just wouldn’t work,” he said. ·

At 72 years old, Hebley has no plans to retire the car or himself: “As long as it keeps going, so will I"

In a culture obsessed with upgrading and replacing everything the moment something newer exists, this man and his Corolla are a reminder that consistency and care will always outlast novelty.

06/26/2026

know it’s still runnin…. But it’s time to get a newer one.

03/18/2026

The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new series of stamps on Friday that features five special cars. For the lowrider community, it's validation of a vibrant, artistic expression that blossomed decades ago in Mexican American and Chicano communities with the transformation of everyday cars into rolling masterpieces.

Read the full story here: https://abc7news.com/18707379/

03/14/2026

From the barrios to the mailbox! 🏎️✨ The USPS is officially celebrating lowrider culture with a stunning new series of stamps featuring iconic Chevy Impalas and authentic pinstriping. MORE BELOW ⬇️