Make the Journey Your Destination
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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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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There is a lot of crap written and sung about life on the road: travelling is fun only if journeys are undertaken from choice but, to be eternally on the move in order to justify one’s existence … that is something else. My friend Brian Finch knew this better than most. No
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Another hike in the fuel price due to another Carbon Tax – on inferior quality fuel. The Machiavellian logic behind this toxic tax would have been funny if it was not so tragic, reckons Paul van Gass. It is a script not even the writers of the controversial final episode of Games Of
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The SUV Coupé trend is booming. Paul van Gass wonders what makes these graceless coupés so popular. It was premier brand BMW who took it mainstream first, quickly followed by Merc and most recently Porsche and Audi. Nowadays, it seems, every car builder South of the Arctic (most notably in China)
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I assume (by dint of this being a motoring-related publication) that most of you reading this are in possession of a driver’s licence and you acquired it by following the K53 process. If this is the case, then I am sure you can recall the rigmarole you were obliged to follow
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Shock and horror! Self-confessed futurist, concept car enthusiast, and lover of all things new develops fondness for utterly ordinary, 30-year-old cars. Unless badged 300SL, XK140, or something equally emotive and rare, a 30- year-old mass-market car in the 1980s would have been something like a Morris Minor or a Ford Anglia.
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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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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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Pay attention to professionals, take notes, save money. Your first car is always a blessing, even during those moments when it feels like a curse. Mine was a ‘one careful owner’ Mk1 VW Golf. The freedom of personal mobility it offered was a constant source of joy … until it caught fire. This happened
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