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/ 13 December 2004
Funny how women view cars so differently from men. With many men, it’s a kind of testosterone thing. With women, it’s often a kind of ”will-it-get-me-home-in-the-dark-without-packing-up-suddenly” thing. So it’s quite interesting to view the selection of finalists chosen by this year’s South African Guild of Motoring Journalists’ jury for Car Of The Year.
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/ 13 December 2004
The original Gone in 60 Seconds showcases a shapely young starlet known simply as ”Eleanor”. HB Halicki’s 1974 action romp credits 28 actors in its cast, but all of them play second fiddle to Eleanor. After that, she probably retired to a garage someplace. Eleanor, you see, was a 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1.
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/ 13 December 2004
It was no routine dinner party, its guests as distinguished as its agenda was questionable. On the night of September 5, the leader of the Ukrainian opposition, Viktor Yushchenko, met Igor Smeshko, the head of the Ukrainian security service, the SBU, and his deputy, Volodymyr Stasiuk, reportedly a confidant of the outgoing president, Leonid Kuchma.
Inquiry sought into claims of US funding
Yuschenko was poisoned
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/ 13 December 2004
The imprisoned military commander Marwan Barghouti dropped out of the Palestinian presidential race on Sunday, less than a fortnight after he threw the campaign into turmoil by breaking with the Fatah movement and becoming an independent candidate.
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/ 13 December 2004
The Bush administration has been listening in on telephone conversations between the director of the international nuclear agency and Iranian diplomats with the aim of gathering evidence to remove the United Nations bureaucrat from his post, it was reported on Sunday.
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/ 13 December 2004
Around the globe, engineers are working to produce the green car of the future. We take a look at some of the energy sources that may revolutionise the vehicles of tomorrow.
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/ 13 December 2004
Setting up a new computer always involves a little work that, by most accounts, is a lot of fun and gratifying too. You get to learn new things, and that custom set-up you achieve a few months down the line, is deeply satisfying. So too is the new A6 from Audi and, in this case, a rather explosive 3,0 V6 turbo diesel. The Audi A6 Tdi couples the latest electronics, high performance and fuel economy.
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/ 13 December 2004
Imagine the advertisement: "Wanted: CEO for national motor distributor. Must be able to cook!" Okay, so that wasn’t really a requirement for the job, but Ray Levin, CEO of Kia Motors South Africa, really is a fully qualified chef. Levin reckons that there’s a huge divide between his previous career and the one he pursues now.
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/ 13 December 2004
"If you’ve ever wondered why journalists write ‘claimed’ or ‘approximately’ about performance and economy figures supplied by the manufacturers at a vehicle launch, it’s because we haven’t tested that particular vehicle." How does the VW Caddy Life live up to its manufacturer’s consumption claims?
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/ 13 December 2004
South African cellphone giants Vodacom and MTN are not sitting ducks for takeovers by international players, says Merrill Lynch’s Meloy Horn. She shot down rumours that United Kingdom-based Vodafone, the world’s largest cellular phone operator, might take a controlling interest in its South African subsidiary, Vodacom.