As a respected manufacturer of quality compact vehicles, Daihatsu must be well-positioned to capitalise on the market’s swing to more economical, efficient and smaller cars. Finding a disappointed Daihatsu owner is... Read More
When talk turns to the hot hatch genre – which, when you’ve got a bunch of petrolheads together, is often – the focus is usually on the C-segment of bigger machines, such as the Golf GTI and Astra OPC. This is... Read More
With the station wagon market seemingly in terminal decline, Audi’s designers must have extensively mulled the exact nature of the practical version of the second-generation Audi A3. On the one hand, going the normal... Read More
It’s taken South Africans far longer to fall in love with the turbodiesel engine than our European cousins, particularly when it comes to luxury cars. The stigma of diesel being for tractors and bakkies is a hard one... Read More
While sister company Hyundai has been making rapid progress and making many new friends (customers) with its Getz and Tucson models, one senses Kia is poised to follow in its tracks very shortly. Following a spate of... Read More
It’s not often that Mercedes-Benz hits the styling nail absolutely on the head, but with the second-generation C-Class, introduced at the dawn of the new millennium, it seems to have done just that. Five years into... Read More
Although ageing and under fire from newer soft-roaders, Jeep’s current Cherokee, first introduced locally in 2002, continues to sell in healthy numbers. In fact, courtesy of its quirky looks, iconic Jeep badge and the... Read More
