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Replacing the battery in your older Toyota Hybrid is easier and cheaper than you think

| BMG Media | Bowater Toyota

The rise of fuel prices is tough on everyone, and prompts the question, "Am I getting the most efficiency of the dollars I'm spending at the pump?" If you are driving a Toyota Hybrid, even an older one, you already know the answer to that, yes you most certainly are. However, if your vehicle is older you could actually be saving significantly more by checking on the health of your hybrid battery and potentially replacing it for under $3000 in some cases.

Join our team at the BMG Store

| BMG Media | News

Come and work with us! If you have experience as a wheel alignment and tyre tech you need to fire us a message. We are prepared to upskill you and need you to start yesterday!!!!!

Great finance options on the Toyota Hiace Vans will help you get to work!

| BMG Media | Bowater Toyota

Build to make the hard work easy, Toyota's sixth-generation Hiace has been designed to meet the needs of the widest group of customers yet, who are seeking a safe, well-engineered, efficient, comfortable and trusted workhorse. With this great offer on finance and leasing it is easy to get your business moving.

Adventure Awaits: 2026 RAV4 Pricing Announced

| BMG Media | Bowater Toyota

Undeniably New Zealand’s most popular car in both sales and customer acclaim, the sixth-generation RAV4 will arrive in the first half of the year with advanced safety technology, two electrified power options and a model to suit all lifestyles.

Win a FREE ARB Air Compressor this January

| BMG Media | News

This January we are starting off the year with a fantastic addition to anyone's camp or offroad setup - an ARB Air Compressor, which you could win! Purchase any ARB product during January and you are in the draw. 

Modifying a Toyota RAV4 Adventure for real Adventure

| BMG Media | News

We recently received this wonderful review from one of our customers who bought a Toyota RAV4 Adventure model from the team at Bowater Toyota and enhanced it for real adventures with the team at the BMG Store. Continue on to enjoy their experience!

The Bowater Motor Group celebrates 80 years in business.

| BMG Media | Our team

On September the 28th 1945 Raymond Bowater opened the doors on his automotive business and the beginnings of The Bowater Motor Group came about. Four generations later BMG is stilled owned and operated by the Bowater family and filled with a long serving, experienced team committed to your mobility needs.

Thoughts on the Toyota bZ4X from Gavin Larsen

| BMG Media | Community

Our long standing Community Partnership with the NBS Nelson Giants stretches for more than 40 years. This year we decided to put their Commercial Manager Gavin Larsen into the new Toyota bZ4X, the fully electric vehicle Toyota recently released. His thoughts?

Bridge to Better Roadworks affecting access.

| BMG Media | Bowater Toyota

From September through to December access to Bowater Toyota via Rutherford Street is going to be difficult. We have rearranged our on site parking so we can easily accommodate the many vehicles that come into our central Nelson Store daily. 

Do you need a little bit of this in your life?

| BMG Media | News

Getting to the hard to reach places is a traditional Kiwi past time. But to get there you will need the right vehicle and the right accessories.
Now is the time to act and get into a new Toyota Hilux or Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series before the end of the month to pick up a couple of really great options.