Caterham’s formula for manufacturing lightweight, playful rear-wheel drive cars hasn’t changed much over the years – they’re still the ultimate value track toy you can buy, easy to service and tolerable on short distances outside of the track. Now the company might be on the verge of a creating...

Still deciding between Panasonic or Bosch as its battery partner, here’s a few new insights into Porsche’s first electric car which is closer to production than many give it credit. Porsche’s Mission E is believed to produce around 447kW with a range of 500 kilometres and handle a faster charging speed of any...

The new 2016 Toyota Fortuner arrives in South Africa to take on the more expensive Ford Everest. We drive it at launch. What is it? Toyota Fortuner needs no introduction. Brought to the South African market in 2005, it is responsible for popularizing the off-road SUV genre with nearly...

Using human senses to measure what machines can’t. Besides a stunning vote for mankind, this is the mantra that Nissan’s Takumi engineers, these master craftsman, swear by. Like AMG they live by this ‘one man, one engine’ philosophy and with only five certified Takumi engine builders allowed to work...

You get gullwing doors, suicide doors, sliding doors, doors that vanish into the sill (BMW Z1) and conventional doors… and Hyundai has come up with another type, the sliding gullwing door. The Korean automaker has filed for a patent for a door design which would combine both effects and benefits...

Next month the 2016 World Endurance Championship kicks off at Silverstone and Toyota is ramping up the excitement with a video on its TS050 hybrid. Competing in the LMP1 category where it will be up against the Porsche 919 and Audi R18, the Toyota TS050 represents possibly the biggest evolution from its...

It is difficult to believe it is already 21 years since the original Toyota RAV4 – the innovative recreational vehicle that pioneered the sport utility sector – made its South African debut. Recently the fourth generation of this ground-breaking model received minor exterior refinements, evident in the reshaped, decluttered front...

A new idea doesn’t stay one for long. If there’s any veracity to reports that Mercedes wants to copy the Range Rover Evoque convertible (not sure that’s such a good idea, mind) then Range Rover will feel fully entitled to get one back over Mercedes’ GLE with the temporarily named...

Nissan has been incredibly quiet these past few months, and now we know why. The wonderful ladies and gentlemen of Nissan were all working on evolving their resident supercar-killer – the Nissan GT-R, which they revealed at the New York Motor Show this week. “As the icon of Nissan’s...