A manufacturer’s job is to sell you their car, to do anything within their power to quote facts and figures, performance times and fuel consumption, all in an effort to swoon you into joining the corporation for which they are employed. But as much as this is the case, it’s truly rare when such claims can be met in an everyday world, by everyday drivers, without the slightest bit of hassle. I encountered such a situation on my recent test of the Subaru Forester 2.0X, the entry level model of the Forester range.
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Road Test: 2013 Volkswagen Polo Vivo Maxx
“Nice isn’t a very nice word,” my English teachers used to tell me growing up, it’s a bland adjective and one no one would be happy to be described with. They were right, but wrong, for if there was no such word as “nice”, what would we compare all other adjectives to? You see, we need the boring, we need the bland, we need the mundane, especially in the automotive world, otherwise we’d never know an exciting car when we drove it. So would our Polo Vivo Maxx be mundane or mouth-watering to test out?
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Road Test: Foton Tunland 2.8 ISF Luxury
A bakkie is a bakkie is a bakkie…or is it? Foton have decided it’s time to take on the big boys in the bakkie world, and brought us the latest Foton Tunland double cab to test, so we could see just how close they are to competing with the rest of the pack. We received the 4X2 2.8 ISF Luxury model, which retails for R289 950, nearly 60 grand less than the closest similarly specced competitor. But how does it stack up?
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Review – Volkswagen Golf 7 1.4 TSI Comfortline DSG
“VW Golf”, a name synonymous with the term “the people’s car”, after all, most of us at some stage or another have driven a Citi Golf, or owned one, or learnt to drive in one; not to mention the fact that many of our parents did the same. So the Golf moniker has been around for some time, and it has always been known as the hatchback to set the bar, the benchmark so to speak. Now, with the 7th generation at hand, we begged the question, does this once again retain “benchmark” status? We had a week with the new Golf to find out…
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Toyota 86 High Spec Road Review: Slipping and Sliding Away the Week
Upon its launch nearly a year ago, the Toyota 86 received some of the greatest media coverage of any car over the past decade, and for Toyota, the past 2 decades. We managed to set up a drive of one back then through a dealership, and you may remember how we raved about its brilliance; so now that all the hype around it had somewhat died down, we thought we’d re-visit the 86 to see if its “specialness” still remained…
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Road Review: Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1.4T Distinctive
I’ve always loved Alfa Romeo, unashamedly so, but the new breed, under management of FIAT presented something interesting, classic artful Italian design, with great engines shared between the two brands, and a fairly affordable price tag; would there be a catch when I tested the Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1.4T Distinctive, one of my favourite modern hatches?
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Road Review: 2013 BMW F30 320i Sport Line
One of the most hotly debated topics in motoring circles is the never-ending battle between Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and BMW, and in particular, the “entry-level” sedan models from each of these three brands. BMW has long held the title of the “benchmark” in the segment, and there has been many a claim that the new F30 3-Series would continue this heritage of being the best. So, we decided to test it out for ourselves when BMW South Africa gave us a red 320i Sport Line last week.
