Streamlined sedan...

A Whangarei street had to be closed to traffic and the city's parking control boss had to get down and dirty to recover a car from an extreme illegal parking situation.
The spectacle of the Peugeot sedan being hoisted out of the Raumanga Stream at Woods Rd about 8am yesterday entertained dozens of people on their way to work.
The car had been sitting in the yard of nearby Magic Motors, which borders Raumanga Stream, and is now a write-off following its unscheduled dunking on Tuesday night.
Who pays Whangarei District Council's recovery costs was now a matter to be worked out between Magic Motors and its insurance company, said Keith Thompson from Environment Northland, the council's parking, animal and noise control contractor.
Mr Thompson waded through water to connect strops for the crane to hoist the car out before the tide shifted yesterday morning.
He did so accompanied by good-natured jibes from bystanders, along the lines of "Are you going to issue a ticket?" and "Have you got the wheel clamps?"
Magic Motors workshop manager Gordon Kelly said judging by the distance the car had floated downstream before getting bogged - about 75 metres - the incident happened about midnight, on the high tide.
It was possibly rammed into the stream by another vehicle, or pushed by passing "hoodlums", Mr Kelly said.
There was no sign of other damage or interference with vehicles at the property.
The car's whereabouts for the past year has been unknown to its last registered owner.
After the old Peugeot broke down this year, its owner, a cash-strapped Tikipunga student, gave it away and left for university in Auckland.
The ownership papers were never changed, the student's stepfather told the Advocate.
Mr Kelly said the car had been brought into the workshop a day or two before its swim.