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VW Golf 8 GTI arrives: Here is the price for South Africa

Originally designed during a time of crisis at Volkwagen, the Golf GTI has become a celebrated family performance car. It is rightly classified as…

JAC brings N55 electric truck to South Africa

JAC Motors has announced its N55 Electric Vehicle (EV) is now available to order in South Africa two years after its international launch. The…

Converting and driving a bulletproof bakkie

Emergency begets innovation and South Africa is, by nature, a specialist in armoured vehicles. SVI engineering has been making transport safe for two decades…

Cape Town set to host Formula E championship

The FIA World Championship has announced Cape Town will be one of the cities to host the Formula E racing series in 2022. The…

Has Tesla discovered the limits of AI? [Opinion]

What Elon Musk has achieved with Tesla is extraordinary. He can claim to have forced all legacy car companies, with huge R&D budgets and…

Road Test: Mercedes-Benz G400d

The Mercedes-Benz G400d looks like nothing else on the road. And that is intentional. All other luxury SUVs have sweeping lines and aerodynamically shaped…

GR Yaris launches Toyota back into hot hatches

Toyota has finally confirmed the local price and specification for its most exciting car in decades. Most South Africans might think of Yaris as…

G63 AMG is a better build with Grabber AT3s

G63 AMG. In a world of aerodynamic design needs, spacious cabin architectures and air-suspension ride quality, this is Mercedes-Benz’s very successful outlier SUV. Proud…

Lucid CEO becomes strategic advisor

Lucid is the EV enthusiast’s car company. The California luxury EV brand has been particularly bold in its execution, creating dramatic tri-motor powered EVs…

Golf 8.5 update with lots of Life

Golf 8.5 and VW’s MQB Evo mechanical engineering. It won’t mean much to anyone who isn’t an automotive technical strategist, but it’s what made…

Tariffs trump US new car affordability needs

Tariffs shadow the global automotive market – pervasive, present, but often not spoken of. The unintended consequences can be enormous when tariffs are escalated…

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…

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…