Driving in New Zealand and the strange cars there 

There are no strange cars in NZ. Only strange people visiting.

With all those oddball cars, Doug DeMuro would be in heaven down in New Zealand.

Toyota probably just ran out of english synonyms for space. Raum and Platz are German and mean space ;)

what's most impressive is that even with the names right in front of you, you manage to mis-pronounce almost half of them. Ever been tested for dyslexia?

When I lived in nz in the late 80s there was still lots of classic English cars around, escorts, cortinas, Hillman's, zephys, Austin Tasman, all sorts!

When I visited NZ for a month my friend and a friend of hers in Auckland drove us around in his Altezza, I found it weird how many roundabouts they have.

My first trip to New Zealand was in 1984 when the country imposed a very high duty on imported cars. Cars were expensive and, thus, maintained to a high degree. The cars on the road reminded me of cartoon cars, as they came from a time long ago, but had to last for, at least, a generation or two. Kiwis (the local population) were well adept at changing the oil or adjusting a timing chain, as mechanical knowledge allowed them to get from here to there with good reliability.

Such beautiful country.......

You make Forrest Gump look like Einstein

At least New Zealnders drive on the correct side of the road.

I remember when l went to australia how stressful riding in the car was especially at roundabouts and turns. Ugh! As a backseat driver l just had to close my eyes and keep my mouth shut & trust our driver knew what he was doing. .....great video. I haven't thought about how different our car makes are from other countries other than the brits.

Nick you know there's loads of good driving roads in NZ, and loads of amazing cars, you just have to look for them :)

I'm just an everyday Mum sitting here eating my lunch watching yet another randomly recommended video. And I really enjoyed it lol

Good job, The pronunciation of most of those names were wrong

Love it ❤️ Have a great time in NZ. Looking forward to more insights into this wonderful country!

Such a beautiful country, its so clean looking(apart from some of the cars that is)

This was fantastic, but I think you actually improved some of their names there mate. Never realized we had such a diverse collection of cars in our country though. To be fair it seemed so normal.

The majority of the BMW cars in New Zealand, were imported from Japan, as used cars and right hand drive. (Japanese tend to fancify their cars, hence the M badges)

long time viewer here from Jamaica Nick, happy to hear you mention my little paradise in the sun.

The runix is called the corolla in the UK and the vitz is the Yaris.

Try island-hopping in the eastern Caribbean: St Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe - left, right, left, right.

This Brit spent two glorious months driving the length and breadth of both islands with a small Toyota camper. We stayed in camp sites and often rented one room studios for modest costs. Travelling in NZ is a dream - superb ! As a Brit, I enjoyed driving on the correct side of the road, unlike the US, Canada or continental Europe. It is an excellent driving experience with low speeds, about 40 - 50 mph, giving time to enjoy the beautiful passing scenery. South island is best for holidays although the far north of North Island, with two coastlines so close, is also a real pleasure. Apart from our mega drive along the Arctic Highway, the entire length of Norway, returning through Finland and Sweden, our NZ odyssey was our best global travel experience, never to be forgotten. All the New Zealanders I met were great people. Apart form the vast distance from everywhere else, we both felt almost at home.

The M badge thing is exactly the same here in the Balkans where I live.. Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro it doesn't matter, it's impossible to find a BMW without a bloody M badge.

I don't think this guy could've misread more silly car names right in front of him if he tried.

Few places you can give them the beans??? There's quite literally amazing gorges and driving roads basically anywhere and everywhere, but if driving in straight lines does it for you... then okay.

I'm not a New Zealander but long may it remain exactly as it is, without changing. I love the place!

Love that possum road kill, Australia's pesky export to NZ, but they make lots of furry things for sale.

On the weekends you see a lot of 60's American cars at what you refer to as meet ups. You should show them the twin steering front wheel semi trucks. Loved it there!

Another rather charming video from this Turd Goblin

Nick you're hilarious!🤣😂🤣Awesome video!👍

Hi Nick! Always been a great fan of your videos from here in Tokyo, Japan, but I gotta say you basically pronounced all the Toyota car names WRONG... you definitely should come to Tokyo sometime and see how unique and diverse our car culture is here in Japan, especially Tokyo! And I would love to visit NZ someday, as there is basically no time difference! Will make traveling so much easier!!

Oh my. That's a wider variety of JDM cars than I've seen in Singapore! (then again, regulations are different between SG and NZ).

@4:21 "Raum" is the German word for room, which strikes me as quite fitting for a roomy car like that. Having said that, don't ask me why Toyota would ever come up with the idea of giving their JDM car a German word for a name and then selling the whole thing to some Kiwi at the end of the world :-D

I am a Bangladeshi. I love New Zealand especially for Cricket.

I live in New Zealand and own a Toyota ISIS !! its a great mini van ! Have yet to be pulled over and checked if i'm carrying muslim extremists !

A lot of these Japanese models are available in the Caribbean as well.

"New Zealand has a fairly well maintained road system" yeah right!

The Scepter is clearly the fastest of all those sexy machines with not one but TWO rear windscreen wipers. Well known for their horsepower boosting properties.

I would say I've heard of at least 70% of those cars, and I haven't even been to NZ.

FYI: Raum = room and Platz = place, language is called german.

In Christchurch I saw a guy driving a car with one hand out of the drivers window holding a mattress that was not tied down. Funny to see it as the mattress sliding about.

Hi Nick, thanks for the video, I would love to visit New Zealand... and never leave. I’m from Cape Town South Africa very similar geography but doesn’t get as cold.

In my country Suriname (South America) a former colony of England, France and the Netherlands..we also drive on the leftside.

as long as they have a warrant of futnuss, thats the main thing

4:17 Nick: "You should see it from the front" Also Nick: *Doesn't show us the front...*

A bit of Wang Chung brightens up the darkest of days. Takes me right back to the 80’s! Cheers Nick. 👍🏼

The whole M-Badge thing on the BMW’s merely means that they have some sporty accessories, not that they are trying to pass them off as M performance vehicles. It’s quite legit, think of it as the same as the Audi S-Line option.

i have a pong lenis

In Australia and NZ the grey impots from Japan are usually nice, flash cars with low kilometres. Then you go to the Solomon Islands and you see where the ones rejected by the Australian/NZ importers are.

Dude can you even alphabet? You just skip letters in words like they ain't even there. WTF is a Toyota Viz? And the badge on the car said "Vitz." And then you call a Granvia a Granvilla? Did you just add in some letters you skipped on other cars to fill in on this one?

At 3:10 looks like La Festa but you say La Fista!! Love it hahaha!!

One of my favorites is Toyota Enima. Maybe bowel flushing not common in japan.

Strangely interesting vid. Didn't know if I'd enjoy this but found this very entertaining. Thank you so much

And the Windom becomes a Wisdom?

Here for the car, but end up WOW for the scenery. New Zealand is so so so beautiful. I wish i can go there sometime. Surely NZ is in my bucket list.

Dance Hall Days did it for me. What a track.

Dayum, New Zealand looks reeeeaaaally pretty!

When we lived in Christchurch, my wife had a vitz, you had to turn off the AC and just about everything else just to get up a hill to where we lived, I use to called it the wankered

all of those vehicles can also be found in Barbados as well...

You pronunciation and lack of understanding of foreign words is so funny.

The countries (way) North of Australia also drive on the left: Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, etc.

Who cares about our cars. The trout fishing is some of the best in the world

Thailand drive on the same side of the road as Australia and New Zealand .

3:35 we call that the Toyota yaris in the Philippines

Haha love this! Thanks for sharing some of New Zealand's automotive scene!

a nice mustang 1:15 oh and Hong Kong drives on the left too just saying

And that's not to mention the Daihatsu Social Pose, Nissan Cedric, and Mitsubishi Lettuce.

I love your videos and your humor!

I lost myself at the Toyota Scepter (3:27). That is by far the funniest thing I've seen all day and night!

Oh god, as soon as I was hovering over the thumbnail of this video, I saw a screenshot of the BMW E36 Compact and I was thinking Nick was going to throw abuse at my Dad's car in Tokyo and say its the worst car ever to have exist with a BMW badge like all the other car enthusiasts... I'm glad I was slightly wrong, although I have a confession about my Dad's car that I'd rather not post in this comment or i'll receive death threats in the car community! But lets remind ourselves, BMW makes the front wheel drive people carrier called the 2 series Grand Tourer, and the fugly+hard riding X2 SUV as well. So even if the E36 Compact may be the 'bastard-child of the 3 series', it really isn't that bad compared to some of the crap that BMW makes in their range now.

So this is just a video pointing out that NZ is chock full of JDM grey imports. How exciting.

Yay Jamaica!

How could you not find a Wish in one hour?

great vid Nick thanks!

You didn't tell people the most important thing about driving in New Zealand which is that we are really bad drivers who think we are really good. In New Zealand if you drive a safe distance behind the car in front the person behind you will overtake you to fill in the gap. Aggressive driving is seen as good driving, it's like we are in a race to get somewhere first and will take the most insane risks to pass the car in front. It would also appear in New Zealand that drivers think using the indicators is an optional action when turning, we must all think that everybody has ESP.

Hey Nick ,surprised you know so much about NZ , you being an Aussie an all

Nz also have one of the biggest underground car racing enthusiast groups ever

If you are going to do a funny video about funny names, at least say the names correctly! Or is that the joke??

so pasting an M badge on a non M BMW is essentially the same here but we also have nimrods who put hellcat badges on a base model dodge charger

Gee, Nick, you're doing a pretty bad job at correctly pronouncing half of those Japanese car models.

Half of those Toyotas are just corolla variants.

Your face is stranger than the cars

4:17 the Reflect, its actually a sub model. Its a Toyota Starlet, reflect which was the base model and then the glanza which was the top model with a mad little turbo 1.3

lol state highway 1 looks like one of our back roads. There are better roads in a place like south africa.

in Murica we slap a TRD stickers on our cars, it adds 200 HP. I slapped a TRD sticker on my Yaris and poof I blew the doors off of a Lamborghini Huracan, granted we were stuck in traffic that time.

Second best country in the world after Australia

That’s funny. I’m in Okinawa and laugh when I see the Isis car on base. My favorite is the Hiace Vans. I’ll buy one soon.

I enjoyed driving through South Island, I hired a strange car -a Nissan Tiida never could pronounce it but it was very good. Small but nippy.

Most cars were wrongly named the super windy is a corolla as seen on the badge, then regulus is regius.

INDIANS love newzeelanders . I love your country. You have great countryside. Beautiful landscapes and roads. The cars are perfectly balanced. No insane ones like European or Americans. They are in the perfect side of the road. Love from INDIA.

In the UK we had the Morris Isis, a luxury car based on the Morris Oxford family car. It was named after the river Isis which becomes the river Thames after it passes through Oxford and continues on to London. The marque started in 1929, and was revived in the 1950s.

I love New Zealand as I live here😊⛷🤸‍♀️

Pretty sure people working in Toyota are so good at making names. They're definitely running out of words and none of these words make sense

At least driving in NZ is NEVER boring!

Most islands in the Caribbean are full of those JDM models you have shown as well as the various European and US models as well.

Beautiful country,beautiful friendly people , name 8 more things please...

Hopefully, the deceased wrestler Pat O'Connor is still a well-regarded New Zealander. He seemingly had true wrestling capacity.

Most of those cars are available in the UK under different names, however there are many that clearly haven't rusted to death - as they did in the UK.

You do realize that us Australians got the exact same lot of cars too, and most of these cars you show would have been private imports, not regularly sold in dealerships

I don't know why you'd see these cars as strange. I've seen nearly every one of them on the road in Ireland and the UK. The only place these are strange are in the U.S.