Lance Branquinho is a Namibian-born writer and photographer who has won numerous motoring journalism awards. He once smuggled parts to South America, in a minor contribution to help Giniel de Villiers finish on the podium at the Dakar. He fears for the eventual collapse of the air-cooled Porsche 911 market – and keenly awaits, in vain, the return of the brand's 928.
All the renowned British car brands (Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar, McLaren, Mini, Land Rover and Rolls-Royce ) are represented in the South African new vehicle market. But how will an... Read More
Do small changes to Porsches always yield big results? We drive the new Macan in Mallorca, Spain to find out.
Platform engineering and Porsche are strange bedfellows. For decades, the brand’s iconic 2-door... Read More
Land Rover showed us a concept of the new Defender as long ago as 2011, but the production version will only arrive in 2020. Why is the next iteration of an off-road icon taking so long to come to... Read More
2018 is one of the most unstable years in automotive corporate history. What all the new CEOs mean for your favourite car brands.
If you are employed in a senior management position in the automotive industry, 2018... Read More
The bakkie segment is the most popular vehicle class in South Africa. Should we judge body-on-chassis pick-ups and double cabs, especially those produced with affordability most in mind, by conventional passenger... Read More
The Jaguar I-Pace, which is scheduled for local introduction in 2019, won’t be the first electric vehicle to be offered in the South African new vehicle market... but it might be the most significant... Read More
South Africans love SUVs and there is scarcely a better summer car than an open-top SUV! Here are the Top 5 you want.
Although September has proved a month of snow in parts of the country, we are inevitably... Read More
They said Japanese and German engineers could never work together... This is the story of how Toyota and BMW made the Supra/Z4 project happen.
The launch of Toyota’s 86 was a defining automotive moment of... Read More
If the world’s most disruptive car company hopes to survive, it might need to lose its maverick CEO.
For the world’s most charismatic billionaire, 2018 has been the most trying year of his incredible... Read More
Controversial 20 years ago. Crucial to the brand in 2018. We look at the evolution of Mercedes-Benz’s A-Class premium hatchback.
A month after introducing its latest C-Class, Mercedes-Benz’s... Read More
