Most won’t even let their friend drive a LaFerrari around the neighbourhood but this relaxed millionaire lets his bud take it around the Nurburgring, and then with a pinch of the leg encourages him to go faster. When things predictably get a bit sideways he has a good laugh about it while...

Fiat Chrysler becomes the first car company to openly collaborate with Google’s self-driving car project. The 2017 Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivan forms an integral part of Google’s vision for autonomous mobility. Google’s autonomous car project has been active for seven years and the company’s self-driven cars have covered 1.5...

When entering the biggest segment in the market, one better have a strategy.  Mercedes Benz hadn’t exactly set the South African streets on fire with the previous Smart – numerous complaints about dealer support along with gearbox issues on CVT models burst the brand’s cute bubble. Truth be told, Smart came...

Call us biased but we like Top Gear’s second teaser more than the first for the simple reason that some of it is filmed in our homeland. Yep the flashes of SUVs racing along gravel roads took place up Sani Pass in Lesotho as the team set their sights on reaching the...

Glancing at your watch, not because you’re running late – the W12 twin turbo would never allow that – but because Bentley has just built a bespoke smartwatch app that creates a more convenient method of interacting with the car’s advanced onboard electronics. Designed for the Apple device, the smartwatch...

Ferrari CEO Sergio Marchionne might have let slip one of the biggest secrets of the hypercar world – Ferrari could build a Spyder version of the LaFerrari bound to be louder, sexier and pricier. In a recent interview with Automobile Mag, Marchionne went as far as saying that potential...

Everytime we see the Bugatti Chiron it’s either getting on or off a truck headed to some glitzy gathering where guests arrive via helicopters or yachts . This time the Chiron does a bit more idling around, a prod of the accelerator and…the sun is out so you can drool over its...

What’s this? A bigger engine replacing a smaller one? This is Volkswagen’s 1.5 TSI petrol engine codenamed EA211 and in the fullness of time will sideline the 1.4 TSI across the entire range. At this stage it seems likely that the facelifted Golf Mk7 (possibly due later this year)...

Hardly seems like the BMW i8 needs an update, so advanced is its carbon fibre construction, aerodynamic shape and hybrid powertrain. For now there’s nothing that competes but BMW still isn’t taking any chances and recently announced a few worthy upgrades to the 2017 i8 model. The revised powertrain...