Gavin Foster
Gavin Foster works from Seaham. Managing editor of the Sunderland Echo, Shields Gazette and Hartlepool Mail Gavin Foster has over 725 followers on Twitter.
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/ 18 November 2003

Triumph still delivers

Remember the Triumphs of old? Well, the new ones are nothing like that. Thank goodness! For the last ten years Triumph has been building bikes as good as anything to come out of Japan, and Gavin Foster finally took the plunge and bought one.

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/ 2 October 2003

Olé Opel Meriva

Delta has launched a new offering in the compact MPV class with the Opel Meriva, smaller brother to the Zafira. The Meriva uses the crafty FlexSpace seating system to rapidly configure its interior without removing any seats

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/ 25 September 2003

Wait no more for the Audi S4

Audi this week launched the current generation S4 in South Africa. This sporty flagship in the A4 range utilises Audi’s powerful 4.2 litre V8 engine which develops an eye watering 253kW of power at 7 000 rpm and 410 Newton metres of torque.

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/ 28 July 2003

Eat my dust

In developing the YZF 450 quad, Yamaha did what quad nuts have been praying for — taken the motor from their race-winning four-stroke YZ dirt-bike series and put it into a four-wheeled frame that can deliver handling to suit.

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/ 13 June 2003

Doing it his way

You’ve probably seen the footage on television. An anguished Tommy Malone stumbling and falling just metres from the line, while Manie Kuhn puts in a desperate sprint to catch him. Malone drags himself to his feet, only to collapse again with cramp, as Kuhn lunges past to claim the prize that has eluded him twice before. The 1967 Comrades Marathon provided the closest finish in the history of the race, with just 30cm separating the first two runners