Caravel is any of several types of small, light sailing ships, especially one with two to four masts and lateen sails used by the Spanish & Portuguese in the 1400s & 1500s, a French caravelle from Old Portuguese caravela, diminutive of cáravo ship from Late Latin cārabus.The onc...
The Subaru XV is arguably showcase for just how user-friendly a Subaru can be. The crossover is designed to provide quasi-SUV versatility in a package that behaves more like a regular car.The XV has a certain sleekness that isn’t usually part of the crossover recipe. Both the front and re...
The fifth generation Subaru Impreza has swapped a lot of the aggression of previous generations for a look that’s a lot more elegant. It’s gone from speed freak to style maker - it is a very different car now to the one it was when it first started out. It is still a nice looking car, ...
Hear the Peugeot 3008 review on Eat Sleep Drive Repeat, the motoring podcast! Find it on Apple, Google and Spotify.With the sheer amount of SUVs on the market, it’s hard to believe that a company can com up with something that is truly original in this class - but Peugeot have done exactly...
Even though “Discovery 5” is not its official name, that’s undoubtedly how the world will come to know it. The styling of that latest Land Rover Discovery has managed to achieve something that might seem a little bit impossible: it’s given the SUV more bulk and aggression,...
Hear the Nissan Navara Stealth review on Eat Sleep Drive Repeat, the motoring podcast! Find it on Apple, Google and Spotify.The Nissan Navara Stealth is package create especially for the South African market. It takes the Navara Double Cab and adds styling and interior upgrades, while leaving th...
The Range Rover Velar is the middle child of the brand’s lineup, sitting between the Sport and the Evoque, and shares a platform with the Jaguar F Pace - a car that has a reputation as being a thoroughly good drive. Looking like the skinniest member of the family, its front end in particul...
At Revised Ford Mustang launch I had a stint in this American Hooligan, Ford South Africa decided to loan me this car for the weekend, but why only a weekend? Instead of seven days as the normal duration of Ford Fleet testing procedures.The thing is there’s only Fifty of these bad boys i...
I attended the launch of the updated Nissan Micra recently and I must say, Nissan has really went above and beyond on this new Micra. So what’s new ? Well firstly, Nissan has introduced a new DIG-T (Direct Injection Gasoline-Turbo) engine which produces an impressive 84kW over the outgoing 6...
South Africans love a good budget car, and Hyundai has recently brought to the market a new budget car; the Hyundai Atos. The Atos is to rival against the Datsun Go as well as the Renault Kwid. The previous Atos model was quite a popular car in South Africa as it sold around 45 000 units from the ...
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