About Richard Webb
Richard Webb is a co-owner of Valiant Media South Africa, publishers of books, magazines, newsletters, in both digital and printed format. Richard is a committee member of the A Guild of Motoring Journalists (SAGMJ) and contributes to a number of automotive lifestyle and prestige magazines, including our very own SA Car Fan website. Follow Richard on Twitter.Author Archive | Richard Webb
Road Test: Peugeot 3008 Premium 1.6 THP
Deep inside Peugeot HQ at 75, Avenue De La Grande Armee, Paris, the Peugeot big-wigs found inspiration from a Tetraodontidae, commonly known as a ‘Puffer Fish’, when they sculpted the [...]
Road Test: Citroen C4 VTi 120 Seduction
Champagne or flat Perrier? As a youngster, I dreamt not so much of Ferrari or Maserati, with their finely tuned aluminium multi carb engines. Nor of riding gleaming, throbbing Harley [...]
Road Test: Peugeot RCZ Coupé
You know that Peugeot is known for selling large numbers of small cars, right? But surely it’s a bit of a stretch to mention a Peugeot product in the same [...]
Road Test: Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland
Everyone needs a second opinion. You’ve carefully selected your outfit for the evening but you turn to your partner and say. “What do you think, love?” Their face normally says [...]
Road Test: Audi A7 3.0T FSI Quattro
Audi are embroiled in a bit of a power struggle with its parent, Volkswagen, over where to build its cars outside Germany. The parental unit wants Audi to use the [...]
Road Test: Mazda2 Sedan 1.3 Active
Recently, Ford announced the end of the road for their Bantam. A local curiosity, this bakkie no longer fits in with Ford’s global scale, apparently. The death of Bantam spells [...]
Road Test: Hyundai H-1 VGTI
Hyundai Motor Company managed to shift 3.61 million units world-wide in 2010. A staggering 9 890 units every single day, including Sundays and holidays. They sold 500 000 vehicles in [...]
Road Test: Land Rover Freelander 2 SD4 HSE
In a scoop for SACarFan, we present the first road test of the new Range Rover Evoque in South Africa. Well, actually that’s only partly correct. What we have done [...]
First Drive: Kia Picanto
The Picanto may be a tiny car, but it’s massive for Kia. More than a million Picanto’s have sold world-wide so far. So it’s an important car. Their A-segment great [...]
