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Review: Land Rover Defender 90 D300X

D300X is the new Defender without steel wheels and all the luxury time. Is this the smarter Land Rover for brand enthusiasts without kids?…

Review: Mazda CX-5 DE Akera

CX-5 DE Akera shows how far Mazda has come, in the local market. We tested the Mazda premium turbodiesel SUV. If you want a…

EQC 400 4Matic is SA’s first battery-powered Mercedes

EQC 400 4Matic has finally arrived in South Africa as part of Mercedes-Benz’s electric vehicle strategy. It has been available in many other global…

Review: VW’s Taigo 1.0 TSI R-Line

Taigo is the sixth VW SUV or crossover to join the German brand local product portfolio. It has been a remarkably astute reconfiguring of…

Review: Lexus ES 300h hybrid

Lexus is a remarkable brand. When Toyota wished to conquer the burgeoning American luxury sedan market in the late 1980s, it knew that German…

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…

Why Range Rover remains the pinnacle luxury SUV

The Range Rover. In the realm of luxury SUVs, it is the original and most iconic, with an unrivalled legacy. Although most Range Rover…

GS3 Emzoom R Style review

GS3 Emzoom. It is another of the new Chinese models that continue to add diversity of choice for local buyers. In a market where…

Dakar dominated by South African built Hilux Evos

Dakar is the world’s most demanding off-road race. And if you sell vehicles with an all-terrain marketing subtext, a Dakar win is invaluable. Occupying…

Elkann to create Jeep and Stellantis Meta(morphosis)

Jeep had a terrible 2024. The iconic all-terrain vehicle brand and crucial profit source for Stellantis saw sales ebb, dealers annoyed, and shifts reduced…

Afeela is Honda’s luxury EV – with Sony tech

Afeela is the latest technology joint venture between legacy Japanese brands, Honda and Sony. As the Japanese car industry tries to reinterpret its context…

Territory 1.8T Titanium 2025 review

Territory 1.8T Titanium proves how much a Ford nameplate can change. Possibly no other model range has altered its positioning so much in South…

New York congestion charge and city cars

The New York congestion charge is now real. Having finally followed the example of London, Stockholm and Singapore by initiating a congestion charge for…

Renault got design right in 2024

People think being a car designer is glamorous, but it’s not. You can work for years, even decades, without ever having one of your…

Nio Firefly brings Galaxy design to compact EVs

Nio might only be a decade old, but like most Chinese car companies, it is boundlessly ambitious. As European, Korean and Japanese brands struggle…

Quartermaster is unquestionably cool – and capable

Ineos has done what Land Rover could not, reviving its original Defender’s spirit. The independently financed British brand has created the fantasy off-road exploration…