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Sit-ins and picketing in KZN
”We must prevent a situation where our courts and judges are politicised by being involved in political fights,” says ANC eThekwini chair John Mchunu.
Volvo’s beautiful cruiser
The latest version of the Volvo C70 coupé comes with a retractable steel roof. What larks! At the touch of a button, the boot lid launches itself skywards and the roof rears up,…
Honda unplugged
In an ideal world, cars wouldn’t have to burn petrol and smog up the place. They would run on a combination of grass cuttings and rainwater and, as they passed, the air would be…
You have arrived
Broad, long and fastidiously smoothed over at every corner and edge, the new Peugeot 407 coupé appears to fancy itself as something in the Thunderbird 2 line. Remember the big…
Curb your emotion
Hail the arrival of an all-new car, and hail the arrival, to go with it, of an all-new acronym. You’re thinking: it’s a smallish car with a lot of seats in it, so that would make…
Music of the spheres
”If you are going to go about in a spanking new Ferrari F430, you had better not be shy. There can be no more efficient way of getting noticed on a public highway, short of being…
Peugeot’s teensy-weensy city runaround
The 107 is, it goes without saying, a small car; as small as a Peugeot gets. It replaces the 106, but don’t be fooled by the bigger number into expecting expansion on all fronts.…
Yaroop!
”The Bentley Flying Spur is just about as unostentatious as a 5m long, 2 300kg lump of perfectly tailored Bentley auto-mobile can be — which is to say, about as unostentatious as…
Just add water
Desperate to drive into a lake? You’ll be after a Gibbs Aquada, then. It’s the world’s first factory-produced, customer-ready, high-speed amphibian and represents a one-stop shop…