IN prior years, my association with any Mitsubishi with an auto transmission was spoiled by the slothful characteristics of the self-shifters this company employed. The lazy changes and extensive slip just didn’t do anything to make for driving pleasure but all that slipped into the history books in…
THE Honda Civic seems a thoroughly unlikely base for Honda’s most extreme hot hatch, the Type R. Certainly in the UK, and to a lesser extent in RSA, this Honda in base form is the darling of the blue-rinse brigade and of housewives who spend hours waiting for…
THIS year marked my 26th visit to the world’s greatest motor race, and as has become custom for the last 20 years, camping was the order of the day so my son’s VW Passat 1.6 TDI station wagon was well-laden on its Tuesday afternoon departure from the UK for France,…
IT’S not that long ago that Hyundai was dismissed as just another hopeful interloper from the Far East but how things have changed thanks to the near-relentless upgrading and expansion of a model range that introduced the daring concept of the long warranty and a design ethos that owes much…
THE life of a motoring journalist is not all about driving around in someone else’s flash cars as my one neighbour often infers and maybe he came to realise that when he saw the large and vertically imposing Mahindra Pik-Up lurking on my driveway.…
THE new Renault models, Logan/Symbol and Logan MCV have arrived in the country and are available for sale at all Duly and Croco Motors showrooms dotted around the country for sale at beatable prices. (more…)
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Anyone who visits the UK will positively fall over the scores of Nissan Qashqai models that swarm around supermarket car parks which rather obviously tells you that this UK-built Japanese design that owes a fair bit to its French partner, Renault, is a very popular choice with families in particular.…
WITH 17 new styling and design cues, led by an all new Electric Blue colour with vibrant orange accents, the Kwid CLIMBER enhances its lifestyle quotient. This car can only be found at Duly Motors in Zimbabwe (more…)
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AS most of us are only too well aware, perceptions have much to do with how the SA motor industry is driven and that means that really good cars are consigned to the side lines while some rather ordinary ones march out of showroom floors in their hundreds.…
FORD'S second-generation Kuga might lack the outright driving precision of its predecessor, but it brings more of what people really want in this marketplace. Specifically, space. The Kuga now has an interior and boot that are competitive with all but the roomiest rivals. (more…)
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