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/ 27 February 2007
With 905 000 Audis sold worldwide last year, the German manufacturer has achieved 13 years of consecutive growth. This global trend is echoed in South Africa, where Audi sold 1 584 vehicles in 1994, and slightly more than 13 000 last year. Audi SA believes the company’s international success can be attributed to its focus on sportiness.
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/ 27 February 2007
Ford’s ST badge has garnered a great deal of respect in recent times, and with good reason. The Fiesta ST and the Focus ST have come to represent an exciting chapter in Ford’s history, so it makes perfect sense to carry that badge to other models in the Ford range such as the Territory.
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/ 12 February 2007
I know I’m going to despise myself for the following statement, but it’s something I feel strongly about, so here goes. I envy men. Yuck! What a horrible thing to say. I feel my Mum should be shoving a Bird’s Eye chilli into my mouth the way she did when she caught any of her children swearing in English or Hindi.
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/ 29 January 2007
For the seventh consecutive year, Lexus has been crowned as the best-selling luxury vehicle brand in the United States by selling 322 434 units in 2006. Overall, Toyota sold over 2,5-million units to become the third-largest seller in the US last year. Yet Lexus does not enjoy this kind of overwhelming success in many other countries.
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/ 26 January 2007
How do I know the new Hyundai Santa Fé is going to be a success? Simple. When I arrived at a recent family gathering in the Santa Fé, I was asked by a group of male relatives: "Is this the new Lexus SUV?" Before I could answer, one of the guys said: "No, it’s the new Audi SUV."
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/ 18 December 2006
It always amazes me how much money people spend on some vehicles. For instance, an SUV that will never see a mudsplat in its lifetime is the vehicle of choice for stay-at-home mums in Jo’burg’s northern suburbs, and they use it primarily for shopping and the school run, writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 18 December 2006
Feeling very jetlagged after a long trip recently, I discovered that there’s nothing quite like a performance car to start your day. Vroom! A throaty growl from the Mercedes-Benz CLK 63 AMG cabriolet’s supercharged engine said "Wake up, sleepyhead!" in the most arrogant way, writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 31 October 2006
While feminist Gloria Steinem can be credited with the original ”a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”, it was Bono who made the saying famous on an entirely different level. Just about every other woman who got into the Mercedes-Benz S-Class 320CDi I was test-driving questioned why any woman who owned an S-Class would ever need a man, writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 31 October 2006
Car shows are to motoring enthusiasts what fashion week is to fashionistas. It is a chance to take a sneak peek at what the next season has in store, it gives you the opportunity to be in the same venue as those you worship and, most importantly, it gives you a heads-up on important concept vehicles and makes you seem far more knowledgeable than you might actually be.
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/ 31 October 2006
When Nissan’s Navara range was launched last year in 4×2 form, it was generally accepted as the best-looking bakkie on our roads, but journalists were concerned about the future of the Hardbody. Nissan accepted that some cannibalisation would occur, but almost 12 months later sales of the Hardbody haven’t decreased and the Navara has managed to capture its own slice of the SUV pie.