Top Gear Live Convoy

Celebrating Motoring and the Love of Great Cars

Classic car enthusiasts throughout New Zealand prepared to tour the nation in a convoy featuring some of the world’s rarest cars – the Top Gear Live Convoy in association with Moro: fuelling Kiwi roadtrips since 1967.

The starting gun was fired in Invercargill on Sunday February 14 to send the Top Gear Live Convoy of around 25 classic prestige and performance cars valued at more than $30 million on a tour of the country.

The Convoy stoped at Shell service stations in Invercargill, Dunedin, Timaru, Christchurch, Wellington, Palmerston North, Hastings, Napier, Taupo and Hamilton – arriving in Auckland on Thursday February 18 just in time for the opening show of Top Gear Live, powered by Shell V-Power.

The touring convoy featureed examples of motoring classics such as a 1936 Jaguar SS Le Mans race car, a Ferrari Enzo and the very rare 1986 Ferrari GTO.  Each pit-stop was an opportunity for local Top Gear Live fans and motoring enthusiasts to get up close and personal with some amazingly rare vehicles and participate in the Convoy’s festival atmosphere.

In addition to some of the world’s greatest cars, there were Shell V-Power fuel vouchers and bonus Fly Buys points up for grabs, a souvenir photo booth for the public to take photos with the cars and the chance to win a double pass to the Top Gear Live show and Cadbury Moro prize packs at each stop.

The drivers of the Convoy will also be raising funds at each pit-stop throughout the country for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of New Zealand; Top Gear Live’s sponsored charity for 2010.

On the morning of February 18 the entire Convoy met at Shell Beach Road where they left for a parade up Queen Street and through central Auckland before heading on to the ASB Showgrounds. 

While the official Top Gear Live Convoy was a closed group of cars, owners of classic or performance cars were welcome to join it for a leg of the journey and potentially the parade through central Auckland.