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Smaller is just as good

I HAVE pontificated for many years about the ill-defined standards controlling fuel retailing in Zimbabwe. For years, pumps carried the descriptor ‘BLEND’ when the contents of the bulk tank contained nothing resembling blend. Further, motorists had no idea of the octane rating of the fuel they were paying…

A tale of two-wheelers

SIX years ago today (December 4), I reluctantly departed the country of my birth and headed for Cape Town. When bread rolls became a luxury and electricity was as scarce as hen’s teeth, I gave way to the hassles of unsuccessfully trying to live a normal life and…

Big, bold, well-equipped, but still a bakkie

LET me preface this review by saying that I fail, for two primary reasons, to understand South Africa’s love affair — outside of commercial use — with pick-ups or double cabbakkies, to use the colloquial term. Firstly, pick-ups, whether in single or double-cab configuration, deliver a compromised driving…

Fero wins 2014 Zim Midaz parts challenge

MUTARE based Clemence Fero won the 2014 Zim Midas Parts Challenge competition, the biggest in the Zimbabwean motor industry. The second and third prizes went to mechanics in Kwekwe, Conerlious Chipaumire and Mutemi T.C. Zim-Midas Parts challenge is part of the Clover Leaf Motors Group, one of the…

Milanese Vitamin C for the road

NOT TOO many of you will recall the three Fs of motorsport. If you are one of those folk who are too young to remember the inaugural years of the Drivers’ World Championship, allow me to explain. Alfa Romeo, with a heavily modified Grand Prix contender based on…

Subaru WRX 6-speed meets WRX CVT

THE more potent Subaru iterations have attracted a small but near-fanatical following over the years, a following fuelled by the brand’s global rally exploits and by unusual engineering features exemplified by a flat-four engine layout and by the application of all-wheel-drive. Ask any car fanatic what the letters…