Archive for September, 2009
Stop the Oppression!
September 30th, 2009 
Steve Good old Julius Malema leader of the ANC Youth League is reported to have outstanding traffic fines for 14 separate offences most of which were for speeding. He is also reported to owe in excess of R5000.00, which seams awfully low considering the Metro Police’s penchant for taking money away from motorists. Now most of [...]
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Drive Test: VW Scirocco 2.0 TSI DSG
September 30th, 2009 Russell This, is quite probably, to me and various regular-wealth petrolheads like me, the best car in the world. Really. It has the looks and head-turning effects of a true-blue supercar, near sportscar performance, commuter fuel consumption and an actually remarkably reasonable price tag. Even quite reliable. For a full rationalization of this extreme claim you’re [...]
BMW Vision EfficientDynamics
September 29th, 2009 Christo I love show- and concept cars, mostly because they give us an opportunity to escape our own mundane existence to a world where we can actually afford any car we fancy, and get styling as out of this world as our own imaginations can sometimes be. So what if the production models – if it [...]
Frankfurt 2009 image gallery
September 28th, 2009 Russell Our roving reporter got back from Frankfurt last weekend, but it’s taken us this long to sort through the huge chunk of pics he brought back, so that we can present this – our Frankfurt 2009 gallery of the most interesting machinery at the show this year! Our top picks are already in this month’s [...]
Kyle's F1 Blog
September 28th, 2009 Kyle Stone So it turns out I was vaguely correct in my predictions with regards to the whole Renault saga in my last blog. I thought that the individuals in question were indeed guilty of race fixing but that Renault would be found innocent regardless, Renault is after all a big name team and that means there [...]
New Chevy Cruze sails into SA market
September 22nd, 2009 Russell Chevy’s new Cruze is a big car. Well, it’s actually a mid-sized sedan if you’re talking pure dimensions. But it’s a big car for the company. Huge, in fact. It’s really the first time the bowtie badge is playing in this space, at least for many years. They entered the country in 2004 with little, [...]
Unabated Development – Drive Magazine October 09
September 22nd, 2009 Steve Open publication – Free publishing – More tests Welcome to this our second all-digital issue of Drive magazine. This month we had the same problem as last month in that we just had too much content and the difficult decision was what to leave out! Included in our mix of road tests this month we [...]
The new McLaren MP4-12C
September 17th, 2009 Christo Ever since the F1 became the fastest car ever to be built (well, at that stage), there has been a certain something about McLarens that resulted in the car being included on just about everyone’s list of dream cars. While it’s debatable as to whether the original F1 will ever be usurped in terms of [...]
Kyle's F1 Blog
September 17th, 2009 Kyle Stone What a disappointing Monza race, okay it was actually quite good but I’m just annoyed that Button’s championship lead is looking increasingly unassailable. Rubens may be proving to be the superior Brawn driver in the twilight of this season but we’re talking about a Ross Brawn team here. A combination of Ross Brawn and the [...]
SLS AMG looking like The Real Deal!
September 15th, 2009 Russell Yes while Mclaren readies it’s own new supercar, its partners in the faintly silly SLR Mercedes have entrusted their next full-on supercar over to their tuning arm AMG, and the result is looking rather tasty indeed. The SLS may be dripping with nostalgic styling cues harking back to that greatest of Mercedes supercars, the SL [...]
