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Cars, Camaraderie and Commercial Legends - a different kind of Club run

Our club outing this month was definitely going to be different, because the end result was going to be a trip to a Mercedes-Benz “Man Cave”. These are few and far between and I know that some of our partners and wives were a little hesitant about going on such an excursion.However, the day dawned with brilliant sunshine and fine weather, so off we went! I was able to arrange the use of our retirement village’s Mercedes Sprinter to enable a group of us to travel from Papamoa in leather-sea...

Arapuni to Putaruru: Coffee, Convoys, and a Cracking Museum Stop

The regular team plus some new members assembled at the Rhubarb Café in Arapuni in somewhat miserable weather where, as usual, the coffee and service at the Rhubarb was great.After coffee we convoyed at a leisurely pace along Lake Arapuni to Lichfield then by SH1 to the NZ Timber Museum and Trainworld just south of Putaruru. It is one of these places we have all driven past many times without stopping but this museum has a great collection of forestry and timber related artifacts and Trainworld...

Christmas at the Top - a Memorable Day at Skyline Rotorua

Well, golly gosh, it hardly seems like 12 months have passed since we all enjoyed Christmas lunch at Vilagrad Winery at Ohaupo, but here we are already at Christmas for 2025 and yesterday we celebrated with 21 members of Midland Mercedes-Benz Car Club at the Skyline Gondola and Restaurant at the top of Mt. Ngongotaha at Rotorua.In weather typical of the Bay of Plenty at this time of the year, we were able to enjoy an almost cloudless day with temperatures hovering around 25.0deg. as we all assem...

A Sunday of Stars: Mercedes‑Benz, Metrology and Mechanical Mastery

This month’s outing commenced with morning tea at “The District Eatery” tucked away down behind Mercedes-Benz dealers Ingham Prestige in Te Rapa. Following morning tea we proceeded to Ingham’s, where dealer principal John Ingham met us all and had opened his showroom to allow us a private viewing of the very latest models of “G” Wagon, GLC, plus saloon and coupe versions, available here in NZ. John’s in-depth product knowledge enabled him to answer the many and varied questions com...