AA Directions Spring 2020
Schemes to support new businesses and new careers, spaces to learn new skills, lessons and insights from entrepreneurs pivoting in times of upheaval – this issue focuses on opportunity. Grabbing opportunities is something New Zealanders are good at. We have the attitude needed to make the most of circumstances, to see the possibilities. We look a challenge in the eye and turn it around, create something with it and, more often than not, share it with others.
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It tends to be in challenging times that opportunities present themselves. As Albert Einstein said: “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
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The website- and app-founder speaks about her 'Chooice' new venture
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The iconic Airstream caravan has garnered worldwide attention
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The AA outlines changes it would like to see from the incoming Government
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Could working from home be the answer to congestion woes?
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Ponsonbees is a buzzy notion aimed at keeping the dwindling inner-city bee population alive
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The BMW 3 Series Touring adds a touch of style and luxury to a road trip
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More cycle ways are under construction in Auckland
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Why do different countries allow driving on different sides of the road?
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Tips to avoide a lemon when buying a used car
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During lockdown, David Parker built a Canadian-style canoe using fibreglass cloth and a dozen coats of newspaper applied as papier-mâché
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On Great Barrier Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, a native wildlife sanctuary is especially impressive after dark
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A gren-filled house on Wellington's Kapiti Coast provides a happy oasis for a young family
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Glamping, or glamorous camping, provides time on the farm sans gumboots and cowpats
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What should you look for in an income protection policy?
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New Zealand's newest Great Walk, Paparoa Track, is a poignant journey
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What are the most suitable mortgage options?
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Journeying in a 1964 P4 110 Rover takes an unexpected turn
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Technology that brought us Uber, Lyft and Ola is being applied to public transport
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There's more to Rotorua than bubbling mud pools and steaming geysers
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Road Rules: Understanding intersections
An intersection is where two or more streets join or cross
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A market that's too big to fail
The Covid-19 economic crisis has proven there’s one type of asset that is too big and important to crash: housing
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People are twice as likely to die or be seriously injured in a 1- or 2-star rated car, than they would in a 5-star rated vehicle
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Staff Profile: Ana-Marie Lockyer
The General Managaer of AA Money has always loved numbers
All charged up
Sales of electric vehicles has been steadily growing in New Zealand over the last decade.
News bites
People are twice as likely to die or be seriously injured in a 1- or 2-star rated car than they are in a 5-star rated vehicleRead more - Stars on cars
Glamping, or glamorous camping, offers time on the farm sans gumboots and cowpatsRead more - Intrepid luxury
What's behind the garage door? We find one very clever handyman inside an unassuming Auckland shedRead more - Hooked on making stuff
There’s one type of asset that New Zealanders know in their bones is too big and important to be allowed to crash: housingRead more - A market that's too big to fail
