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Under the skin of the new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S 4-dr there’s a lot going on as the transition from AMG GT sports car to GT family car proves to be anything but straightforward repurposing. But if you’ve gone off the whole oxymoronic genre of fast SUVs, this menacing...
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Determined to disrupt the T-Cross’s success comes the new Hyundai Venue which has already started selling way up the new car charts as the brand’s most affordable crossover. This is because the Hyundai Venue intersects and combines so many must-have market trends all at once while the bling n’...
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Special editions are no longer the preserve of elite supercars. In South Africa the bakkie segment is guilty of concocting its own bling elements or matte paintwork – sometimes at the same time – used to reinvigorate sales particularly at the end of a product lifecycle. Taking the bait...
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Troubled brand Citroen relaunches in South Africa after a hiatus of over a year and the Citroen C3 is part of the compact product offensive for 2020. In many ways this trendier sibling of the Peugeot 208 is the underdog in a segment of mature but often play-it-safe rivals...
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The Range Rover Sport P400e is a lot of things. Vast plushness, imperious smugness, off-road componentry sheathed in savvy autonomous electronics and with the newly launched P400e model, a carbon emission footprint smaller than a compact city car. It’s party piece however is a claimed 50 kilometres of EV...
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How surprised were we when it was revealed that the new Suzuki Swift would eschew that tangy 1.6-litre normally aspirated motor for a leaner boost-driven powerplant? When you look at the evolving landscape of junior pocket rockets – Fiesta ST, VW UP GTI, MINI Cooper, Opel Corsa GSI, Renault...
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Following in the brush stokes of Esther Mahlangu’s world famous artwork on limited edition BMWs like the BMW 5 Series and BMW 7 Series, BMW South Africa recently partnered with Sipho Mabona and the newly updated BMW 1 Series. The only difference, albeit a big one, between these artists...
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A Taycan without the Turbo Yes, not the other versions have one… you are aware? For the meantime this is the entry-level Taycan 4S and despite living in the shadow of its brothers’ stopwatch is equally important to Porsche’s EV assault by bridging value, brand cachet, range and performance...
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When did the DBX project begin for you? I had been in the company for about six months in 2015 and was already heavily involved in DB11 but we were already in the concept stage of DBX. CEO Andy Palmer joined the company in 2014 and in March 2015...
Under the skin of the new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S 4-dr there’s a lot going on as the transition from AMG GT sports car to GT family car proves to be anything but straightforward repurposing. But if you’ve gone off the whole oxymoronic genre of fast SUVs, this menacing...
Determined to disrupt the T-Cross’s success comes the new Hyundai Venue which has already started selling way up the new car charts as the brand’s most affordable crossover. This is because the Hyundai Venue intersects and combines so many must-have market trends all at once while the bling n’...
Special editions are no longer the preserve of elite supercars. In South Africa the bakkie segment is guilty of concocting its own bling elements or matte paintwork – sometimes at the same time – used to reinvigorate sales particularly at the end of a product lifecycle. Taking the bait...
Troubled brand Citroen relaunches in South Africa after a hiatus of over a year and the Citroen C3 is part of the compact product offensive for 2020. In many ways this trendier sibling of the Peugeot 208 is the underdog in a segment of mature but often play-it-safe rivals...
The Range Rover Sport P400e is a lot of things. Vast plushness, imperious smugness, off-road componentry sheathed in savvy autonomous electronics and with the newly launched P400e model, a carbon emission footprint smaller than a compact city car. It’s party piece however is a claimed 50 kilometres of EV...
How surprised were we when it was revealed that the new Suzuki Swift would eschew that tangy 1.6-litre normally aspirated motor for a leaner boost-driven powerplant? When you look at the evolving landscape of junior pocket rockets – Fiesta ST, VW UP GTI, MINI Cooper, Opel Corsa GSI, Renault...
Following in the brush stokes of Esther Mahlangu’s world famous artwork on limited edition BMWs like the BMW 5 Series and BMW 7 Series, BMW South Africa recently partnered with Sipho Mabona and the newly updated BMW 1 Series. The only difference, albeit a big one, between these artists...
A Taycan without the Turbo Yes, not the other versions have one… you are aware? For the meantime this is the entry-level Taycan 4S and despite living in the shadow of its brothers’ stopwatch is equally important to Porsche’s EV assault by bridging value, brand cachet, range and performance...
When did the DBX project begin for you? I had been in the company for about six months in 2015 and was already heavily involved in DB11 but we were already in the concept stage of DBX. CEO Andy Palmer joined the company in 2014 and in March 2015...