December 19, 2024
Top Gear (Our motoring correspondent attended last week’s South African press launch in the Durban area and filed this report which refers solely to models available in South Africa. At the time of writing, it was not known whether this model would be officially imported into Zimbabwe, so…
Top Gear JUST to save you the trouble of checking out the origins of the model name RAV, I’ll let you know right now that it stands for Recreational Active Vehicle. (more…)
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Top GearRICHARD Wiley soaked up the sun in the western reaches of England and in central Wales during mid-July on the Range Rover Sport “global drive.” The unusually blue skies simply added to the sparkling show put on by the two versions of the Sport he drove in…
Top Gear SURPRISES are not always nice but this one was. If a 900cc Renault Clio 4 sounds like a recipe for a boring driving experience, think again because the Turbo Expression model was a pleasant surprise and not just from a driving point of view. (more…)
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Top Gear REFLECTING on one year of Suzuki Swift Sport ownership….. One of the advantages of writing about cars is that you get to drive more models than most which helps a fair bit when the time comes to spend your own money on a set of…
Top Gear If your favourite colour is grey, you’d have felt very much at home in France during Le Mans week.
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Top GearThere’s a lot more to Ford than the Ranger in southern Africa, yet it’s the bakkie/double cab configuration from the Blue Oval line-up that grabs all the attention. (more…)
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High tech with low emissions Top Gear If you haven’t driven a hybrid car before, prepare for something of a surprise because you could well feel you’re at the wheel of a luxurious milk float that sounds just like those that……well…..float around the streets of England first thing…
Top Gear I find myself questioning whether there has ever been a more rapid transformation in the motor industry than that wrought by Hyundai of South Korea. To be blunt, I looked askance at one of my mates from Johannesburg who bought a Hyundai for his wife at…
Top Gear It’s a trifle unusual to go to town celebrating a 65th anniversary but when your name is Land Rover, I guess you’ve got more to celebrate than most. Indeed, Britain’s manufacturer of the world’s most recognised 4X4 range didn’t actually go to town but more appropriately…
