Make the Journey Your Destination
Hilux reigns supreme in the desert | If the Toyota Land Cruiser is billed the King of Africa, then the Toyota Hilux must now be known as the King of the Desert, following the dominating performance of Toyota Gazoo Racing and Toyota Overdrive teams in the 2023 Dakar Rally in the
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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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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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Tim Carr took something no-one wanted and turned it into his dream. Jim Freeman took on the Seven Passes on the Garden Route with a BMW F900XR to visit him and his piece of Eden … “This place was abandoned and overgrown. You could not drive a vehicle onto the property but
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Land Rover has begun a year of celebration, marking the 50thanniversary for the original luxury SUV with a unique snow art installation at its Arjeplog cold weather test facility in Sweden and a visit by the World Heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua. To kick off a year of celebration marking the
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The Oceania 2020 edition of the International GS Trophy was one of the closest in the seven year history of the event but Team South Africa did us proud by recording their third consecutive GS Trophy win – making the country by far the most successful in the competition with their ‘threepeat’ performance. After eight
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What better way to celebrate the soul of Porsche after the launch of the eighth-generation 911 than with a road trip featuring all eight generations of the timeless sports car? Well, this is exactly what Porsche did in Thailand recently. To celebrate the launch of the eighth-generation 911 and to reflect
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When it comes to planning a road trip in the Western Cape, it should come as no surprise that the Garden Route is one of the most popular choices. Maxine Volker followed the route all the way to Plett, with The Plettenberg Hotel as the final destination. The Garden Route, which stretches
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An epic 100,000 km electric car road trip undertaken by Dutch EV activist and explorer Wiebe Wakker came to an end last month – and in October he will be in South Africa for the Smarter Mobility Africa Conference, yet Paul van Gass is unconvinced the country is ready for EVs … A Dutch sustainability
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What better way to explore the ghosts and the colonial past of the Victorian village of Matjiesfontein than on a traditionally styled Harley-Davidson, asks Jim Freeman. People who disparage Harley-Davidson motorcycles generally have one thing in common – they have either never ridden one or it is been a heck of
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