Make the Journey Your Destination
From The Grenadier Pub at only 16 m above sea level to the highest pub in Africa – 2 876 metres above sea level – there could be no better place to take final pre-production models of the new INEOS Grenadier than up the steep Sani Pass into Lesotho, coincidentally on Moshoeshoe's Day … The small convoy
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As the first Mahindra to proudly sport the new Twin Peaks logo from the Indian manufacturer, we gave the new XUV700 (pronounced as Seven Double ‘Oh’) carte blanche in Cape Town in celebration of 70 years of Agent 007 (Double “Oh Seven) … Bond. James Bond. Positioned close to the beachfront of Bloubergstrand
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To celebrate 75 years of Continental Tyres in South Africa, 50 years of the Isuzu KB and two decades of its D-Max successor, and to acknowledge exports of these one-tonners and all-terrain tyres to African destinations, we undertook an epic trip to the continental conjunction where four countries meet … Standing
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Chinese auto giant Chery has celebrated its local return with the introduction of the smallest model in its new range, the delectably styled Tiggo 4 Pro. We took it on an extended trip to Ficksburg, the unofficial cherry capital of the world, in the Eastern Free State for our own Chery
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The highly anticipated Land Cruiser 300 is now locally available. To celebrate the 70year legacy of this Toyota icon, we took the luxurious new ZX model to the super exclusive Cheetah Plains Reserve to meet its future past – an electrified Cruiser 79 game-viewer and an original 75 … Sitting high in the sumptuous driver’s seat
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The local introduction of the palatial new Palisade coincided with probably the most spectacular West Coast flower season in recent years, so we set course for Kamieskroon and the Namaqua National Park to admire the blooming splendour from the comfort of the new seven-seat Hyundai flagship. Contrary to what you may
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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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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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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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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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