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/ 31 October 2006
There’s a detectable split in loyalty between people who buy mid-range performance vehicles much the same way there is a split between those who buy luxury sedans. In all likelihood, those people who are well-oiled and passionate about cars are either dedicated Mercedes-Benz, BMW or even Audi fans.
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/ 31 October 2006
If ever the South African motoring public acknowledged that it owed a debt of gratitude to anybody, Malcolm Kinsey would be the man. Fifteen years ago the Durban-based motoring journalist decided to do an analyÂsis on comparative parts pricing of the most popular cars sold in South Africa. The results shocked the industry, and within weeks the companies that had been named and shamed undertook a massive repricing exercise.
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/ 31 October 2006
So just what is there to say about the new BMW 335i Coupe? It’s a 3-Series Beemer, isn’t it, with all the usual BMW traits, such as the fun-factor that makes it appealing to people who enjoy driving fast, the familiar evolutionary rather than revolutionary styling, and the rear-wheel-drive that’s so sadly missing in most modern offerings.
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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.
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/ 31 October 2006
The Audi RS4 has the same effect on other road-users as Dirty Harry did on criminals, asking with his lips curled in barely concealed revulsion: "Do you feel lucky, punk? Well do ya?" The answer was obviously no, in most cases, because as stupid and reckless as most Gauteng drivers are, they know that some cars are not to be messed with.
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/ 31 October 2006
Gauteng concession company Bombela has not allocated any work on the Gautrain project to companies linked to Schabir Shaik, according to a statement issued on Monday. The statement said Nkobi Holdings and Kobitech Transport Systems were among the companies listed on the Gautrain prospective supplier database.
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/ 31 October 2006
One of the cliches that have grown, lichen-like, around Hillary Rodham Clinton over the past six years is that she is very hard working. Like many of the other Hillary cliches (she is ambitious, determined, ruthless) it sounds good but fails to do justice to the extraordinary political operator she has become.
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/ 31 October 2006
A huge increase in the number of unregulated private military and security companies operating in Iraq and Afghanistan is driving concern about the lack of regulation and constraints on their activities. There are three British private security guards to every British soldier in Iraq, the charity War on Want said on Monday.
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/ 31 October 2006
Nigeria and China on Monday signed a ,3-billion contract for the construction of a railway line from the nation’s economic capital Lagos to Kano, the largest commercial city in the north, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported. President Olusegun Obasanjo said the rail project was part of an integrated transportation system for the country covering land, air and maritime transport.
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/ 31 October 2006
Rioting mobs destroyed polling stations in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east and electoral officials organised a revote over burned ballots in the north on Monday, yet much of this war-scarred Central African country called the landmark presidential vote a success as the colossal task of counting ballots began.