No need to sugarcoat it, the average buyer is terrified of French brands. The general consensus is that their vehicles are powered by wizardry and replacement parts cost an arm and both legs being made out of that rare material called unobtainium. Compound this by the average mechanic guessing what’s wrong and we have the …
Green. Once nothing more than a colour with thousands of variations is now the buzzword for anything. If you want to produce or market anything in the future, weather it be Latvian lava lamps or houses , it is mandatory to include the word “Green” in any description. Green implies sustainability and eco friendly, even …
We all are familiar with new car pricing being at a level that generally only the upper income bracket can afford. To address this, banks offer creative finance deals whereby you can drive the car of your dreams, subject to a massive balloon payment at the end of term. Weather or not you can afford …
Do we admit that the internal combustion engine as we know it is facing a limited future? There is only so much you can do via electronic intervention to minimize the negative image of a vehicle that relies on fossil fuels to operate. The ceiling is being reached on adding more and more electronic wizardary …
If you follow the motoring press or social media you can be forgiven for thinking that only supercars can offer the way to motoring Nirvana. The latest multi million Rand supercar has people cross referencing specifications and statistics that they’ll never experience ,financially or otherwise. An automobile is an appliance to most, a means to …
Yet I don’t know where or what that is.. A trend amongst car manufacturers when releasing a new performance model, is to prior leak to the media an astonishingly quick lap time of the Northern part of the iconic Nurburgring race track. This encourages a massive collective of car geeks to pour over data points …
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This was the iconic statement of Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus cars. In essence it refers to whilst a big powerful car was quicker in a straight line, a lighter vehicle would be quicker around corners and ultimately win more races. Even today, Lotus minimises components in it’s current vehicle line up and lives …