Road Tests

It’s become a bit of a trend to take a little hatchback and give it dose of “ruggedness” with some added plastic cladding and hike up the ground clearance a bit. Yes, I’m talking about the newest crossover on the block, the little Adam Rocks from Opel. The Adam...

Not just Mercedes but many brands have gotten tangled in a new badge nomenclature for their expanding models. The Mercedes GLE is just one of them and the new badge aims to separate Mercedes’s SUV range from the rest of it. Henceforth GLE, G Class, GLC cover the activity...

So you are landed gentry and you don’t like travelling without your Labrador and the car must also work as the family carrier. But it must drill the Lord next door’s Lamborghini too. Got that? Yes – and so has Audi RS6. Wild wagons are nothing new and Audi...

One of the best-selling Multi-Purpose Vehicles (MPV), the Toyota Avanza recently had some work done for 2016 while keeping to the same successful formula. To be honest, my only interaction with the Toyota Avanza, prior to getting it on test, was during my schooling years. An old, slightly dented white Avanza...

Currently the smallest Audi to wear the RennSport nomenclature, the new 2016 Audi RS3 was momentarily the most powerful hatchback you could buy, until Mercedes raised the bar again by bestowing the A 45 AMG with another handful of kilowatts. Truthfully very little separates their on-road performance – this...

The fourth, most stylish and latest generation of a motoring legend in its own right, Mazda’s MX-5 certainly makes best of its toy-like character to defy that ballooning car trend to stay surprisingly true to the great original the 1990 original. Mazda MX-5 quite brilliantly brings a 25-year legend...

Slick and modern in its design, the Toyota Land Cruiser 200 has done what so many of us have to and embraced urbanisation. I say this because the once bad boy of the Toyota family has dropped its ruggedness for flowing lines and urban appeal. Thankfully it hasn’t lost...

The Ferrari California might be billed as a Gran Tourer but the recently launched Handling Speciale option pack will remove some of that softness in favour of sharper dynamics and transform it into perhaps one of Ferrari’s most versatile models. Priced at around R100 000 the California HS package...

A sheep dressed in wolf’s clothing, the new Suzuki Vitara has done a good job of donning Range Rover Evoque inspired clothing to usher in a new era for this Japanese SUV.   Probably the biggest talking point of the new Suzuki Vitara is just how modern looking the...