Posts Tagged ‘City car’

Ford Figo

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Not Cool I thought it was fairly common knowledge that if you have to explain why something is cool, then it isn’t. If you have to label it as cool, then it isn’t. Top Gear have taught us this; if you would have to explain to Kristin Scott Thomas why a car is cool, then [...]

Quick Test: Chery J1

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 [...]

Drive Impressions: Suzuki Alto

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 [...]

Drive Impression: Renault Twingo Dynamique

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 [...]