Make the Journey Your Destination
Twelve vehicles, comprising models from Italy, Japan, Korea, Germany, France, and Sweden and, in keeping with the diverse South African automotive landscape, covering almost every motoring genre will battle it out for the ultimate local automotive accolade: the 2019 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year. As anticipated, voting revealed such
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Combining unrivalled heritage with the latest available technology the recently launched new Range Rover Evoque redefines the concept of a luxury compact SUV, according to maker Land Rover. Having pioneered the luxury compact SUV market, with global sales of over 772,096 and more than 217 international awards, the new Range Rover
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Some Roman guy said it a long, long time ago, and Jim Freeman believes it (again) after he (again) crossed the Tankwa Karoo on the latest version of the iconic Honda Africa Twin Adventure bike, the CRF1000L. Somewhere, like a trillion years ago, when my voice was breaking and I started
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Remember that song that gripped your innards and would not let go? There was a line in A Sort Of Homecoming – from The Unforgettable Fire by U2 – that did exactly that to me: “See faces ploughed like fields that once gave no resistance”. Despite a limited understanding of the Irish conflict I
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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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In this issue: Diesel and Dust(er) Monza in the Desert Formula E: Felipe Massa Victorian charm and simplicity: Antrim Villa Cape to Kathmandu Santorini Mozambique
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In this issue Celebrating 20 years of Kia in South Africa Chasing the sun for 4,000 km on SA roads Toyota's latest Hilux and a singlespeed MTB SA team retains the coveted Wolf trophy ATV-adventure on the Makgadikgadi Exquisite Safari Plains in Bela-Bela
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Following (responsibly) in the wheel ruts of Clarkson, May, and Hammond, Jim Freeman takes on the vast Makgadikgadi Salt Pans of Botswana with a Yamaha Grizzly 350 4WD ATV. Back in 2007, the BBC’s Top Gear crew took on the wilds and expanses of the Northern neighbour of South Africa in three
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Would you shift up a gear, or hit the brakes and hook reverse? Last night I introduced my teenage daughter to the 1985 sci-fi classic Back To The Future. Now it is 05h00 and I am experiencing a cerebral tug of war: I have a one-way time machine but cannot decide
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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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