May 16, 2024
If Jeep has done one thing consistently well for the last 60-odd years, it has been the effort put into the preservation of brand values. So much so in fact, that the name Jeep has become something of a generic for any off-road or four wheel drive vehicle,…
There can’t be a soul on earth who doesn’t know the significance of the Corolla model range to Toyota, but in more recent times, the compact saloon has come under increasing pressure from models sourced from Korea in particular. These newer Far Eastern machines have been offered with…
In the last couple of years, the Chevrolet Cruze has largely escaped my clutches. A 30-minute motorway drive in the Eastern Cape does little to shape real world opinions so I was glad of the chance to spend a week behind the wheel of a silver LS powered…
Opel has been something of a problem child in the GM stable which is rather sad because my recent experience of the products from Russelsheim has mostly been very favourable with the proviso that I suspect resale values could cause sleepless nights. In the “Wors Republic,” there’s nothing…
Not too many people get to experience the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and more’s the pity because anyone interested in cars really ought to have the chance to find out what can be achieved when it comes to refinement. I recall driving the previous S-Class model in Italy and Switzerland…
Fifty years ago, Zimbabwe’s roads were home to a significant number of particularly elegant coupes and roadsters that carried the Jaguar growler symbol and the letters E-Type on their boot lids. Indeed, 10 years later, two of my work colleagues both owned British Racing Green 3.8 litre Mk1…
Suzuki’s outgoing SX4 Crossover, which contains a lot of Fiat genes in its make-up, gained a loyal following in my neck of the woods down in the southern Cape. If my eyes haven’t been deceiving me, it’s the fairer sex who have taken to Suzi’s compact Crossover, doubtless…
Few would disagree that the iX35 model probably did more to change perceptions of Hyundai than any other model in the ever-expanding range. The mid-size SUV brought new levels of style to a segment which was represented in the main by vehicles looking like mobile boxes. But there…
It seems only yesterday that GM introduced their Thailand-built Trailblazer SUV at an event on the Cape coast of South Africa. But time really does fly as I’ve recently attended the launch of the refreshed version of the well-received Trailblazer in the Mpumalanga region of South Africa which…
Perception, as opposed to fact, can skew buying decisions quite dramatically and never more so than in the car world. Take the Range Rover Evoque, for example. Perhaps because it’s smaller and lower and more rakish than the Discovery or Range Rover, there’s a belief that it simply…
