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Dezzi Raceway Invitational To Takeover Where Knysna Hill Climb Left Off

Petrolheads and hillclimb aficionados have reason to rejoice once again. After the unexpected cancellation of the 2013 Knysna Hill Climb, due to Renault’s title sponsorship withdrawal, South Africa’s fastest cars [...]

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Peugeot Returns To Pikes Peak With 208 T16 & Sebastian Loeb

The much-vaunted Pikes Peak Hill Climb course is to rallying, much like the Isle of Man TT course is to bike riding. It takes a special mentality from both the [...]

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Just When You Thought It Was Safe: The Land Rover Defender Lives On In Sri Lanka

The long and the short of it is this: Land Rover is going to make an all-new Defender-equivalent vehicle in 2015; so far it’s known only as the DC100 Concept, [...]

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Aston Martin’s Hydrogen Racer

Aston Martin has prepared a special hydrogen-powered Rapide that will race at the Nürburgring 24-Hour endurance race on May 19th. Aston Martin is calling it the Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S [...]

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Upcoming Jaguar F-Type Wins World’s Best Car Design

Jaguar’s new F-Type luxury roadster has been rewarded for being the exquisite piece of kit it so clearly is. The World Car of the Year jury awarded the F-Type with [...]

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Opinion: How The Nissan Livina X-Gear Set Me Straight, Automotively Speaking

Ray Leathern finds himself all tangled up in a hum-drum, Nissan Livina X-Gear for a few days. The car leads him to start questioning the world’s automotive motives.  I appreciate [...]

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McLaren Prepping Baby 12C Racer

It is allegedly known within McLaren by the code name ‘P13′ and is the entry-level Macca that will take on the Porsche 911. When McLaren decided they were going to [...]

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TomTom Reveal Jo’burg Is S.A.’s Most Congested City

TomTom recently announced the results of its 2012 Congestion Index. Essentially, TomTom measures traffic congestion in 161 major cities across the world and compares it the Congestion Index from the [...]

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Next Volvo XC90 To Be Co-Developed By Geely, Get New Engine Tech

A report from Reuters has emerged that Volvo will be introducing the XC90 in 2014 and it will be the first car co-developed with Volvo’s new partner, the Chinese-based Zhejiang [...]

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300 kW Racing Dacia/Renault Logan To Compete In Touring Cars

An association of Swedish Dacia dealers has unveiled the V6-powered Logan that will compete in the 2013 season of the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC). This Swedish touring car entry [...]

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