Archive for March, 2010
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March 31st, 2010 
Kyle Ford Focus RS500 Oh the cruelty, Ford South Africa really do know how to rub it in don’t they. Petrolheads all over the land have for a long tim been bemoaning the fact that Ford refuse to bring the awesome Focus RS in, and now it seems it’ll never happen, although I think we’ve all [...]
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Tags: Focus RS, Ford, Hot Hatch, Leipzig Motor Show, revo knuckles, RS500 
No Comments »Launch Drive: Volvo C30 and C70
March 29th, 2010 Christo The Scandinavians aren’t exactly known for their mainstream approach to beauty. Living in a country that exerts a stark beauty, it’s not surprising that their award-winning designs are usually of the clinical, functional variety than say the emotive beauty of Italian design. Until recently, most Volvos also suffered from that clinical, functional approach which, while [...]
Steve’s Motorcycle Racing Blog
March 29th, 2010 Steve What has happened to Suzuki? It’s not even as if they’ve got a new bike this year. Maybe it is just the Haslam factor. Sure Guintoli showed a flash of brilliance in Australia but he hardly covered himself in glory at Portimao. Still, it’s too early in the season to judge him; he may just [...]
Posted in Motorsport Blogs Tags: Aprilia, Ducati, Fabrizio, Haslam, Sheridan Morias, Tardozzi 1 Comment »Volvo Sold
March 29th, 2010 Kyle Ford has done the deed, the sale of of their Swedish division Volvo has gone through to Geely, the Chinese firm paying $1.8 billion for Volvo. The sale, officially signed off on the 28th of March, includes Volvo intellectual property and assets, and will be concluded in the third quarter of 2010 with Geely taking [...]
Launch Drive – Hyundai i30
March 26th, 2010 Russell Eurocentric Hyundai, Take 3 When we attended the launch of the i30 a week ago, the Hyundai SA team asked that we hold off publishing details of the vehicle for a week, as their dealers weren’t yet stocked-up and they didn’t want to be turning away thousands of enquiries with a “Sorry, call again next [...]
Scooby Facelift
March 24th, 2010 Kyle 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX It’s facelift time for the Scooby, the 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX will be officially unveiled to the public at the New York International Auto Show in early April, but for now we do have some preview information for the U.S spec models. And I’ve got to say, I absolutely adore the [...]
Posted in Drive News Tags: 2011, AWD, Impreza, New York International Auto Show, Subaru, Turbo, WRX No Comments »AMG's top lunatic heads for vans
March 23rd, 2010 Kyle In a move that could possibly result in a series of the biggest crashes you’ve ever seen, Mercedes have taken the boss of AMG, you know, those insane guys from Stuttgart with no regard for rear tires, and put him in charge of their van division. Now given AMG’s penchant for putting their 6.3 V8 [...]
GM's Sci-Fi world
March 19th, 2010 Kyle HUD’s have been around for awhile now but they’ve only really appeared on the windscreens of performance monsters and even then they were rather limited and rare. GM’s vision of the future hopes to change all that with an almost complete re-think of HUD’s. GM has been working with numerous universities on this project aimed [...]
Volkswagen's Golf 6 is the 2010 SAGMJ Car of the Year
March 19th, 2010 Christo The South African Guild of Motoring Journalists (SAGMJ) last night announced the Volkswagen Golf VI 1.4 TSI 90 kW Comfortline as South Africa’s 2010 Car of the Year (COTY) at a gala banquet held at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand. The announcement of the prestigious accolade comes after a stringent process of voting and physical testing [...]
Kyle's F1 Blog
March 18th, 2010 Kyle Hero to Zero The 2010 F1 season, a couple of weeks ago it was one of if the most anticipated seasons ever, now not so much. More champions on the grid than you can shake a stick at, three new teams, a smattering of new drivers, Schumacher returns, a whole raft of new rules, the [...]
Posted in Drive columns Tags: Bahrain, F1, Formula 1, Mercedes-Benz, Red Bull, Renault No Comments »
