Earlier this year, Mobil motor oils and their brand ambassador, motorsport legend Greg Murphy, went looking for New Zealand’s meanest machine. With $10,000 cash up for grabs, they put the call out to all tinkerers, tuners, and polishing pros.
The Mobil Mean Machine competition was open to all kinds of vehicles — sports cars, muscle cars, supercars, show cars, and not-even cars. Whether it was a pick-up, low rider, fixer-upper, or still on blocks, it was eligible. The whips came flooding in with over a thousand entries and nearly 100,000 votes from members of the public.
The top 20 featured Mazdas, a Mitsi, Subaru, Chevs, Fords, a couple of trusty Corollas, and a fair few Holdens, including a 2008 HSV Murph edition featuring an underhood mural of the man himself.…