In the past year I have had to make peace with the fact that the Chinese are coming to SA with even more vehicles. Not just Nissan/Isuzu rip-off bakkie combinations, but passenger cars as well. Some are blatant design rip-offs, which the Chinese are famous for, but then there are others that actually show a [...]

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Lets just get this out of the way right now, our test Alto is pink, in an already rather feminine car this makes driving the Alto rather embarrassing. Everyone that knows me felt the need to take a picture of me with it the first time they saw me in it, the first time Steve [...]

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Size matters
I don’t really have anything against small cars. Super-minis. City cars.
They’re often pretty funky, and they certainly serve a purpose. Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly hip young urbanites, largely much prettier than I am, seem to rather like them too, so who’m I to say otherwise.
It’s just that, well, they really don’t do [...]

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