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eActros trucks to electrify local logistics

eActros is a moment for Mercedes-Benz. For decades, the brand’s trucks have been used in light, medium, and severe duty trucking logistics, connecting goods…

EV Map for greener road trips

Nobody envisages their dream African vacation becoming a logistical issue. But the tyranny of geography and infrastructure are real issues. For adventure travellers, the…

Supercharger network loses its leadership

Tesla and its Supercharger network is adored and revered by technologists and disrupters, with good reason. Legacy American and German car companies, the traditional…

R3 is the rightsizing of EV design

R3 and R3x are the design disruption EV product planners need to understand. The two most compelling EV car companies are a curious antithesis…

Ranger designers rethink mixed reality

Ford’s T6 series platform has truly become the brand’s global car of the 2020s. Everest and Ranger are built on the advanced T6.1 series…

Suzuki’s remarkable South African redemption

Suzuki has a long history in South Africa, but its car business is a story of interruption. The Japanese compact car brand disengaged from…

Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa’s EV battery future

Zimbabwe and Mozambique have an abundance of materials required for building automotive grade EV batteries. But where are they going to be made? The…

E-tron Q8 is Audi’s big play this year

E-tron moniker will be added to more South African Audi models this year. January is traditionally the report card season for automakers. All the…

CES 2023’s best car tech

CES has become the world’s most important de facto car show. Traditional auto shows might have lost their draw, but the audience and actioning…

BMW i7 is our car tech breakthrough of 2022

i7 is not the most affordable or aesthetic car of the year. But BMW’s limousine gains our approval as the best car of 2022…

Model Y integral to Tesla’s surging success

Model Y has been an enormous success for the world’s most valuable car company. As Tesla continues to grow apace and scale its global…

Ford EcoSport Active is not mellow yellow

EcoSport is Ford’s compact crossover product presence in the local market. Although the platform is nearing ten years in age, demand remains strong. Much…

Microprocessor crisis could be over for Toyota

The automotive chip supply crisis remains unresolved, but some of the world’s biggest car companies are revealing new strategies and partnerships to manage it….

The Ferrari sedan idea lives on with Alfa Romeo

Ferrari helped an Italian brand build a four-door sedan, once. But the way they’ve done it with Alfa, three decades later, is a lot…

Nickel prices force a rethink on electric car batteries

Scaling and improved process engineering have dramatically reduced the cost of lithium-ion battery packs during the last decade. But a nasty inflation shock could…

VW’s global Polo updates finally arrive in South Africa

Crossovers might have all but displaced the sedan as a vehicle category in South Africa, but VW’s hatchbacks remain popular. The German brand’s Vivo…

VW shows more of its new Amarok bakkie

Anticipation is building for the second-generation Amarok double-cab. And to keep bakkie fans on edge, VW has released a series of new graphics, relating…

Road test: Jaguar’s I-Pace electric SUV

German luxury car brands are making a lot of marketing noise about their electric vehicles, but since 2019, the most compelling battery vehicle choice…

Road test: Toyota’s GR Yaris hot hatch

Toyota South Africa doesn’t need any business tutoring. With a quarter of the local market, it dominates most vehicle segments. Best known for an…

The 2022 new Ford Ranger is a bakkie for the future

Ford’s has a huge presence in the global bakkie business. Is it telling that the world’s best-selling vehicle is still a Ford, the American…

Peugeot’s double-cab bakkie lands in South Africa

Most South Africans associate Peugeot with stylish city cars and crossovers. But the French brand is now adding a heavy-duty utility option to its…

Here are the winners of the 2021 South African Car of the Year Awards

The South African Guild of Motoring Journalists (SAGMJ) has announced the winners of the 2021 Car of the Year awards. The winners were announced…

VW launches mobile game tie-in for local Golf GTi 8 launch

VW South Africa has launched GTI8OnTour, a mobile game to tie in with the local launch of the eighth generation of the Golf GTi….

Acer’s New Nitro AI Gaming Gear Is Here—But Is It Worth It for South Africans?

R19,000 for Bass? Sony Tests South Africa’s Audio Appetite

Tech Stocks Tank – Can SA Survive a Global Meltdown?

SA Business Confidence: Fintech Lula Sounds Alarm on SME Reality

Why MVNOs are gaining ground — and how Huge NXTGN is accelerating the shift

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV

L2 charging and the power of dwell time

Tires and tariffs