What we want to accomplish

We want to

  • Keep Kiwi car culture alive and thriving, and inspire future generations of car enthusiasts

  • Showcase New Zealand’s incredible car culture to the rest of the world, helping people show off the passion and hard work they put into their cars

  • Give car enthusiasts ways to participate in the community, meet new people, and enjoy themselves.

The general idea is that whatever we do, we leave a positive mark on the car community.

Who is Rotationals?

Rotationals is a two man duo at this stage - but we're always looking to expand! This is why we greatly appreciate any help, volunteers, or advice – we’re out here doing this on our own!

  • Isaac Western

    Work
    Editor of NZV8 Magazine.
    Ex photographer at NZ Autocar     Magazine

    Background
    Business, marketing, photography, videography. Experience at marketing agencies, in sales, writing, event hosting, and content creation.

    Drives
    Rebuilt supercharged Toyota MR2 AW11 - it loves a back road boost!

  • Deven Solanki

    Work
    Editor of NZ Performance Car Magazine.

    Background
    Design, business, marketing, sales, photography, videography. Graduated AUT with a BBus in Marketing & BDes in Digital Design.

    Drives
    1993 Nissan 180SX SR20DET street car

Long Term Goal

Our eventual goal is to do this full time ourselves, with the resources to work as a larger team.

The way we can see that happening is by gradually building up a shop of various products here in NZ, and using our events and content to help bring customers to our shop.

Once we have that humming, then we can ramp up our events and content to be even better, more fun, and more ambitious.

If you’d like to help us on our mission

We're always keen to meet great people, so if you feel like lending your help, expertise, or time to help grow Rotationals, we'd love to chat!

A Brief Background

We've been good mates since the first day of uni – and it's been quite a journey since then.

  • 2017 – 2018

    One semester in, inspired by people like Richard Opie, @TT.Media, @dominic.nz and others, we started a photography page on Instagram – just wanting to be involved in the community, and shoot some cool cars.

    We stuck with it for long enough to gain a reasonable audience, and before we knew it, we were starting to host car meets.

  • 2019 – 2021

    Our first meet had about 20 cars turn up, but we kept trying – even collaborating with other people in a similar position as us, like JDM NZ and OsakaNights.

    Because our events were well organised, well behaved, and had a positive atmosphere, they kept growing and growing steadily.

    Also, because we love all kinds of cars, we managed to cultivate a great mix of JDM, Euro, and US machinery. Mostly from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, but older cars often show up too.

  • 2022 – 2025+

    By 2022, after about 20 meets, we were consistently bringing over 600 cars to our events. Our Rotationals x Repco: I Am Hope Meet of 2023, at Mt Smart Stadium brought in well over 800 cars, and at least 4,000 people – with more cars parked outside due to the venue being full.

    Since then, we've done events at Meremere, Hampton Downs, lakeside in Hamilton, we've even done bar quizzes... And we'll keep at it!

Sponsorship and Business Enquiry

If you’re interested in working with Rotationals, simply send us an email on rotationalsnz@gmail.com.

All it takes is a quick chat to get to know each other, and to understand what each other’s needs are.

From there, we're all on the right track!