It’s rather a salacious headline we know, but this survey is genuine. There is a dating website for married people called Illicit Encounters, and what they’ve done is compile information [...]
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Range Rover Sport Sets Production SUV Record Up Pikes Pike Hill Climb
The Land Rover Range Rover Sport has set a new record for production SUVs up the famous Pikes Pike International Hill Climb course. The course has become completely tarred over [...]
Fancy This Bathurst-winning Group A Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R Race Car?
Over the years the Nissan Skyline GT-R has garnered taglines like ‘Japanese Supercar’ and ‘beast-from-the-east’, which all do justice in explaining this mythical machine. But the one that stuck has [...]
This BMW V8-Powered Rat Rod Is The Best Of Its Breed
Ever since we travelled to Hakskeenpan and 2012 Kalahari Desert Speedweek, we’ve developed a new found affinity for rat rods. What separates a rat rod from a more typical hot [...]
Peugeot 208 1.2 VTi Economy Run
Despite the car already being launched in 2012, Peugeot had the pie-in-the-sky idea for a 208 economy run where the winner would win the use of a 208 for a [...]
Is This The Bakkie Hyundai Said They’d Never Make?
Bakkies are big business in South Africa and when we attended a media trip to Hyundai Head Quarters in Seoul, South Korea, last year; we inevitably enquired about the future [...]
Zegna To Overhaul Maserati Quattroporte Interior
Most car manufacturers fall into the familiar trap of equating ‘luxury’ with gadgets, leather seats and lots of buttons. The Germans are especially guilty of this, and luxury Italian manufacturer, [...]
All You Need To Know: Pikes Peak Hill Climb
The discovery of a gold seam in the middle of the Colorado Mountains in July 1858 sparked off the arrival in the Pikes Peak region of some 100 000 fortune-hunters [...]
Continental Tyres & The General Tyre 4×4 African Adventure
Some say she’s the female Kingsley Holgate, others say she’ll do anything for a good 4×4 adventure. All we know is she’s the fearless Carri-Anne Kelly, and she’s been travelling [...]
Things We Lost Along The Way: CD Players
Imagine for a second you’re the CEO of a car company. It takes, if you figure conservatively, around four years to bring a new car to market. What car would [...]
