About European Horse Trucks

European Car Imports provides a logistics service to clients who wish to import European vehicles from the UK and Europe, saving them considerable amounts of money and increasing their choice while removing the headaches and typical import hassles.

After 5 years in business, we were approached by a car import client asking if we could help import a Horse Truck from the UK as there just wasn’t a great deal of choice here in New Zealand.    After some comprehensive research, we realised there was a market to build and import a variety of trucks from the UK at competitive prices, complete with the attractive European style elements not yet present via NZ manufacturers and builders.  What’s more, importing from the UK meant a Horse Truck could be available to our client in as little as 8 months – beating the usual 3-year waitlist for a Horse Truck here in NZ.

A business trip to the UK and meetings with a multitude of Horse Truck builders followed.  One truck was purchased whilst in the middle of construction to enable us to understand the intricacies of importing and complying a truck.   This truck was sold to Shirley and Fliss Grant at Equitana 2019 and there began a successful new division of our business.

Fast forward to 2024 – many trucks have been built and delivered and others sold on behalf. Lessons have been learnt (and continue to learn), and relationships built with excellent UK coachbuilders, NZ compliance centres, NZ heavy and light vehicle certifiers, repairers, truck mechanics…and most importantly our clients.

If you are looking for a New Zealand-based team to help you build your dream truck, whilst avoiding the common pitfalls of importing, and would like to have your truck in around one-third of the time it would take if you were ordering via most NZ coachbuilders, get in touch with Sally for an initial consultation.