Ray Leathern goes in search of that carefree, seat of your pants, driving thrill. He finally ends up finding it…, in the most unlikely of places… Earlier this week I found myself in a big, supercharged, German saloon car; in the picturesque setting of Natures Valley, near Plettenberg Bay. I was soon faced with the [...]
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Ford motor company of South Africa starts production at its Struandale engine plant today. And announces new, SA built Ford Ranger will be exported to 148 markets across the world. Heralding in its new role as a global hub for diesel engines. The production of the Ford Duratorq TDCi engine in South Africa began today [...]
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Forget Mitsubishi and Subaru, when it comes to all wheel drive, Japanese, hillclimb monsters: Suzuki’s 679kW SX4 has all comers beat at Pikes Peak. Suzuki continued its astonishing track record in the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this past weekend when Nobuhiro ‘Monster’ Tajima piloted his Monster Sport Suzuki SX4 to a sixth consecutive [...]
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The prospect of the Chinese built, Steed 5 bakkie – as it’s called from Great Wall Motors, shouldn’t scare you quite as much as things with a number following their name normally do. ‘District 9,’ ‘Area 57,’ the ‘B 52’s.’ The naming and numbering issue comes from an inevitable and sufferable gap in communication between [...]
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Now this is more like it! Volkswagen’s new Scirocco R is the fast, stylish, more driver focused offering we hoped the original Scirocco of two and a half years ago was going to be. Is it for having your hair dressed or hair messed? It’s a little known secret that, some what ironically; now with [...]
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My experience of engineers is that they’re hardly the life of the dinner party. They can hold their own if the conversation turns to absolute zero, gaming and bridge building or sometimes just bridge, but otherwise I’m an arts student who’s totally rubbish at holding their attention. The one thing that does bring me closer [...]
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I was rather puzzled to hear Nissan say that out of the previous generation X-Trail, only 30% were purchased by women. I say this because I struggle to think of any perennial, Nissan X-Trail mommy wagon I’ve seen in the past, ever being driven by a man. Perhaps husbands are buying them for their wives [...]
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