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  • Isuzu X-Rider

    Test Drive: Isuzu KB 250D-Teq 4×4 X-Rider – before D-MAX

    It’s been over a year since we homed an Isuzu as part of our garage. That car, also a KB. The contents of my current house largely attributed to the space behind the double cab section and its 1000kg payload. Now there’s the 2018 Isuzu X-Rider version which unlike the limited...
  • Mercedes X250d South Africa

    Test Drive: Mercedes X250d 4MATIC has a lot to learn

    The QnA session turned from smoke to fire as the unmentionable question disregarded all political correctness and went directly to what has become the standard retort to all X-Class articles. “What percentage of the X250d is a Navara?” Journalists around the room chuckled into their smartphones as those on...
  • New Ford Ranger Silverton South Africa

    News: Ford’s (2019) Ranger sees daylight at Silverton plant

    A passenger-car bottleneck at Ford South Africa has developed. Some of 2018’s stock (Focus, Fiesta ST, Mustang) hasn’t been disgorged on our shores because Ford is busy satisfying their main markets ahead of our little daub on the spreadsheet.  Not that those will affect the outcome in the bigger...
  • 3 things you may not have known about Mahindra

    What’s in a Name? The Indian company isn’t averse to a little superstition.  Their vehicle names all end in “O” based on the success of their first two vehicles, Scorpio and Bolero. Interestingly, the real name of Mahindra is actually Mahindra & Mahindra, named after Mahindra brothers. So technically...