The UX designation for the latest model from Lexus was derived from the guiding concept to describe its mission as an Urban X-over (crossover) aimed at the modern urban explorer … So we took the hybrid-powered UX 250h SE to explore the Exe River, nowadays known as Hex River Valley. It was around 1700
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Originally conceived as a crossover version of the Impreza the Subaru Forester has matured with every passing generation. But has it stayed true to the Foresters code? To find out, we took it on an 800 km round trip to Foresters Arms in Swaziland. From a boxy station wagon to a full-blown
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Life, as Jim Freeman has been told and experienced first-hand, is what happens while you are making plans, with the result that (as Scottish poet Robbie Burns said in his poem “To a Mouse”) “the best laid schemes o' mice an' men / gang aft a-gley.” It is not always bad when planning goes awry: improvisation
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What was supposed to be a mountain passes challenge for Jim Freeman and the new diesel-sipping Mini Countryman Cooper D, quickly turned into a full-blown Eastern Cape caper … with a slight Scottish flavour. Both sides of my family come from settler stock in the Eastern Cape. My maternal grandmother was
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Small it may be, but the Suzuki Jimny still holds the world record for the highest altitude attained by a four-wheeled vehicle, set in 2007 by two Chileans at 6,688 metres in the Andes. But can it conquer Mount Everest? Ferdi de Vos undertook an arduous journey to find out … The new Suzuki
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Hyundai recently introduced the latest incarnation of its flagship Santa Fe SUV with a road trip across Jordan. Ferdi de Vos joined the convoy making its way from the Dead Sea in the North to the Red Sea in the South. Standing at the edge of the Dead Sea on the
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t all started fifty years ago when the first BMW vehicle was assembled in South Africa. Recently, Ferdi de Vos joined the Xplore Tour not only to celebrate the start of local production of the latest BMW X3 SAV in Rosslyn, but also to explore some of our local culture and heritage … Walking
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The name Bentley is synonymous with opulence as these luxury marques carry themselves with a sense of grace. After a road trip in the new Bentley Bentayga Diesel to Uva Mira Mountain Vineyards, where space and silence roam free on the slopes of the Helderberg Mountain Range, Wilhelm Loots discovered
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Just an hour out of Cape Town lies the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, an area recognised as one of the greatest biodiversity hotspots in the world. But this piece of paradise harbours a dark secret. Ferdi de Vos visited this grand area of land in the new Opel Grandland X to unravel some
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The Swedish connection to beer in South Africa, a young, successful craft beer operation close to Brandvlei Dam, and a road that was submerged for 43 years. Follow Ferdi de Vos as he links all of this together in a new Volvo XC40. By the time you read this it may
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