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New Mswenko adds swag to Polo Vivo range

The Vivo has been an enormous success for Volkswagen South Africa. It is the country’s most popular car and being locally built, it also…

The Starlet is Toyota’s new value car – price for South Africa

Any new Toyota product is huge news for the local motoring scene, especially when it concerns entry-level pricing. The Japanese company, which dominates South…

Top Tips to Get the Right Motor Trade Insurance Policy [Sponsored]

When people hear the words “motor industry”, the first businesses that come to mind are probably large dealership franchises. But while those businesses are…

Hyundai’s radical new Tucson coming to SA

Hyundai has revealed its fourth-generation Tucson and it is certainly a striking new design venture for the brand. The largest Korean car company is…

Testing Land Rover’s new Defender 110

For the African adventurists at heart, driving a Defender was always seen as a very necessary rite of passage. Iconic in design, if troublingly…

AMG goes ‘affordable’ with new Mercedes A35

Mercedes-Benz has added a new nomenclature to its A-Class range, which should be of significant interest to keen drivers who are followers of the…

Updated F-Type brings Jaguar’s best to South Africa

Jaguar has introduced the updated version of its iconic F-Type sportscar to the South African market, following from the international reveal in December last…

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…