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Safer Swift due this Spring

Swift was the model that anchored Suzuki’s return to South Africa in 2008. At a time when Toyota had exited RunX, there was nothing…

Nvidia isn’t hype for automotive engineers

Nvidia earnings were the most anticipated financial services event of the year. As the world’s most valuable publicly traded company by market capitalization, you…

Pick-up trucks and Tesla-Trump politics

EVs have never been a core issue in American elections. The American auto industry’s Big Three make profits from large pick-up trucks and ladder-frame…

EX30 Twin Motor review

EX30 is Volvo’s sub-R1m EV offering. The Swedish brand has been a pioneering EV marketeer in South African, and this crossover model range is…

Review: Audi Q3 Sportback 35 TFSI Black Edition

Audi started small. Not in terms of ambition, but vehicle size. When Audi established itself as a standalone brand from VW, it had compact…

The F1 risk for Audi

Car companies and F1. There’s no average outcome – either you win or suffer brand depreciation. The allure of is obvious. The glamour, technical…

Review: Ranger Platinum 3.0 V6 4×4 auto

Platinum is an essential metal in automotive design, not just as a brand badge. A crucial part of most exhaust after-treatment systems, platinum helps…

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Slate promises to revolutionize the pickup truck market with its new single cab BEV. With backing from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the Michigan company has…

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Red Bull is the standard for performance marketing. The Austro-Thai energy drinks company is a dominant presence in power sports, including its winning F1…

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV

Gravity. Immutable but never misunderstood. And there’s no misunderstanding the product mission with Lucid’s three-row luxury SUV either: it’s literally a moment of Gravity…

L2 charging and the power of dwell time

EV transition headlines are dominated by news of greater range, bigger batteries and more powerful chargers. But are the stats with each EV battery…

Tires and tariffs

Tires aren’t semiconductors, but they’re a vital automotive safety component. Your vehicle can run with a slight semiconductor failure and reduced features, but it…

Also is Rivian’s e-bike and tiny EV future

Also is the latest development for Rivian, with the EV brand spinning-off its in-house micromobility lab into a new company. Supported by $105m of…

Ranger 3.0 V6 Platinum double cab review

Ranger 3.0 V6 platinum. It’s Ford luxury-grade double cab in South Africa, and the only trim level if you want a V6 diesel engine….

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…

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…