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Markets are down. Small businesses are shutting doors. Attending the launch of a new car is a distant memory, replaced with a digital handshake that misses one crucial element – the tangible interaction of driving the car. While we all batten down the hatches, Suzuki SA is ready to...
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Spreading almost as quickly as the Corona Virus is the notion that your next new car purchase will be an electric car. Had you been allowed to enter the Geneva Motor Show, you would have done extremely well to spot a petrol or diesel engine in its rawest, un-assisted...
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Another SUV but this one has a different slant Of the tougher variety compared to the run-of-the-mill family of SUVs because the Discovery Sport can be optioned with 7 seats as well as being able to cross terrain other than a soggy football field. Potentially this is the only...
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Sant’ Agata has been busy Before the inevitable hybrid revolution, Lamborghini is undergoing an evolution, chiefly with the evergreen Huracan model which has over the years been sold in varying levels of modernisation, grip and downforce to continue hooking customers over the last six years. This latest, perhaps greatest,...
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Remember these? About thirty years ago they were the bread and butter model for BMW and up until two years ago, the Rosslyn plant pumped out millions of them to right- and left hand drive markets. The final figure was 1,191 604 before the plant was entirely restructured at...
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There it is again, that jaundiced ‘lifestyle’ remark I loathe Never understood the merit of the word lifestyle, except as a cop-out to describe anything with faux off-road intentions. Except for this E53 AMG which I was warned by the nice lady at Mercedes-Benz had been configured in this...
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For the past fifteen years BMW’s hottest 1 Series has been powered by a 3.0-litre straight six sending power to the rear wheels. The only evolution to that format was the introduction of turbo charging from the 130i to the 135i. Looking at the new BMW M135i xDrive, it’s...
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Better late than never It’s been two years since the I30N was launched in Europe and only now has it arrived in South Africa. That’s two years of smooth sailing for the VW Golf GTI and Renault Megane R.S., as well as for outliers like the Honda Civic Type...
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Lexus has stiffened the new 2020 RX 350 F-Sport. Oh dear, does that mean it’s forgone all comfort to chase after a superfluous Nurburgring laptime? Were that the case it would put the new Lexus RX on a collision course with macho opposition that frankly Lexus doesn’t want or...
Markets are down. Small businesses are shutting doors. Attending the launch of a new car is a distant memory, replaced with a digital handshake that misses one crucial element – the tangible interaction of driving the car. While we all batten down the hatches, Suzuki SA is ready to...
Spreading almost as quickly as the Corona Virus is the notion that your next new car purchase will be an electric car. Had you been allowed to enter the Geneva Motor Show, you would have done extremely well to spot a petrol or diesel engine in its rawest, un-assisted...
Another SUV but this one has a different slant Of the tougher variety compared to the run-of-the-mill family of SUVs because the Discovery Sport can be optioned with 7 seats as well as being able to cross terrain other than a soggy football field. Potentially this is the only...
Sant’ Agata has been busy Before the inevitable hybrid revolution, Lamborghini is undergoing an evolution, chiefly with the evergreen Huracan model which has over the years been sold in varying levels of modernisation, grip and downforce to continue hooking customers over the last six years. This latest, perhaps greatest,...
Remember these? About thirty years ago they were the bread and butter model for BMW and up until two years ago, the Rosslyn plant pumped out millions of them to right- and left hand drive markets. The final figure was 1,191 604 before the plant was entirely restructured at...
There it is again, that jaundiced ‘lifestyle’ remark I loathe Never understood the merit of the word lifestyle, except as a cop-out to describe anything with faux off-road intentions. Except for this E53 AMG which I was warned by the nice lady at Mercedes-Benz had been configured in this...
For the past fifteen years BMW’s hottest 1 Series has been powered by a 3.0-litre straight six sending power to the rear wheels. The only evolution to that format was the introduction of turbo charging from the 130i to the 135i. Looking at the new BMW M135i xDrive, it’s...
Better late than never It’s been two years since the I30N was launched in Europe and only now has it arrived in South Africa. That’s two years of smooth sailing for the VW Golf GTI and Renault Megane R.S., as well as for outliers like the Honda Civic Type...
Lexus has stiffened the new 2020 RX 350 F-Sport. Oh dear, does that mean it’s forgone all comfort to chase after a superfluous Nurburgring laptime? Were that the case it would put the new Lexus RX on a collision course with macho opposition that frankly Lexus doesn’t want or...