Make the Journey Your Destination
The Stellenbosch Wine Route is celebrating its golden anniversary this year. To commemorate this milestone, we visited Delheim, where the founding fathers of the route gave substance to their dream, in the latest MercedesAMG GLS 63 4Matic+ and a 50-year-old MercedesBenz 300 SEL 6.3. “Every story has a beginning and an end,” wrote R.C. Richter
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Did you know that South Africa also has a Great Wall? Yes, we do … on the border with Mozambique near Kosi Bay, and we visited it (well, sort of) in the new Great Wall Motors (GWM) P Series bakkie. It was an eventful trip, and The Great Wall of Mzansi proved
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Named after the capital city of New Mexico, USA, the Hyundai Santa Fe was introduced for the 2001 model year as the first SUV of the company. Since then, it has contributed substantially to worldwide success of Hyundai. To celebrate 20 years of the popular nameplate, Jim Freeman took the latest, facelifted
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Over a century ago the first all-wheel-drive passenger car in the world – a Daimler – was used extensively in Namibia (then called German South-West Africa) and became known as the “Dernburg-Wagen”. We retraced the tracks of this 4x4 pioneer with the latest geländewagen from Daimler AG, the Mercedes-Benz GLB. I
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In 1958, three brothers and two ladies embarked on a road trip of a lifetime in a standard VW Kombi. Travelling for four months, they started in Cape Town, crossed Africa and Europe, and finished in London. It was a foolhardy undertaking but their pioneering spirit, raw tenacity, (and finding a
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How do you introduce the latest incarnation of the archetypical road trip vehicle? It is a rhetorical question, of course … and it was all aboard the new T6.1 Kombi Bus for a trip from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) on the picturesque Garden Route to the exclusive Gondwana Game Reserve close to Mossel
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We have a winner! Congratulations goes to Mia Dijkstra, winner of our bespoke road trip to Frontier Country competition, in association with Isuzu South Africa! Mia’s entry, which included a selection of enjoyable road trip tunes suited to the various regions in the Eastern Cape, which really caught our attention! So,
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The French manufacturer Peugeot has used the lion logo on its vehicles for over a century. With a new version of the logo recently introduced, featuring a lion’s head again, we took the latest Peugeot cub to the Swartland to become acquainted with its legendary Cape equivalent, as depicted on
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Sappi, established in South Africa 85 years ago and now the biggest manufacturer of dissolved pulp in the world, recently received the first-ever sustainable forest management certificate for its local forestry operations. To find out more, we journeyed to the Sappi plantations in Karkloof, KwaZuluNatal … in the new Subaru Forester,
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In anticipation of the 60th anniversary of Toyota South Africa Motors later this year and the legacy of the horse logo initially used as company emblem, we took the latest Fortuner – now with more horsepower – to meet the South African Lipizzaner horses at their new home near Paarl in the
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