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Cityhop is New Zealand's first carsharing service operating in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. It was founded by former Auckland City councillor Victoria Carter with JUCY, a rental car and campervan company. [1] [2] In 2018, Cityhop has 80 vehicles and more than 3000 active drivers. [3]
In 2015, 2 Cheap Cars started parallel importing of new cars from Honda, Toyota and Mazda. [7] The company received a "cease and desist" notice from the car giant Honda in May 2015, claiming that 2 Cheap Cars's advertisement of the Honda Jazz would mislead consumers, resulting in the low sales of the new car manufacturers including Honda. [8]
TR Group Ltd was formed as Trailer Rentals Ltd in 1992 with the purchase of the CHEP trailer fleet in New Zealand. Since then, the company has grown both organically and by acquisition, initially purchasing Truck Rental from Esanda Fleetpartners in 1998 (110 trucks) and combining operations to form TR Group Ltd. Orix Truck Rentals was acquired in 2007 using related shell company Elite Truck ...
Civilian car production resumed in 1946 which was also the year assembly of the Fordson tractor was introduced in New Zealand. In 1965 a parts depot opened in Auckland leading the transfer of operations from Wellington to Auckland and in 1972 a transmission and chassis manufacturing facility at Wiri, Manukau City.
In 2014 SeaLink purchased Pine Harbour ferries, adding three fast passenger ferries to the fleet. Closely followed was the purchase of Clipper V (a second 98 seater) giving Pine Harbour a total of four passenger ferries to cover the Pine Harbour to Pier 1D, Auckland City commuter service.
SkyBus operated services to Auckland Airport. Services were indefinitely suspended in 2021. [26] [27] The Auckland City Express operated between the airport and the SkyBus Lounge in the Auckland CBD, running via the Southwestern Motorway, either Dominion Road or Mount Eden Road, and Queen Street. [28]
Transport in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, is defined by factors that include the shape of the Auckland isthmus (with its harbours [1] creating chokepoints and long distances for land transport), the suburban character of much of the urban area, a history (since World War II) of focusing investment on roading projects rather than public transport, [2] and high car-ownership rates.
After the Auckland Harbour Board was established in 1871 by the council, further wharves were added and massive reclamation works were undertaken, eventually making Freemans Bay and Mechanics Bay lose their natural shoreline, while Commercial Bay (today the site of much of the Auckland CBD and the Auckland waterfront) was totally lost to history.