Alfa Romeo hopes to double sales and give VW a nudge with the new Giulietta, which promises Italian sex appeal matched to everyday practicality.

"Do as I say, not as I do", was in the mind of a man who claims to have seen a police officer talking on his cellphone while driving.

Two men are dead following a crash between a motorcycle and a truck just south of Tauranga this morning.

As property prices soar out of reach, some holiday-goers are trading the dream of a place in the sun for a holiday home on wheels.