While cruising out of Cape Town on the N1 earlier this year I spotted a low-slung metallic red sportscar heading in the opposite direction. Initially I struggled to make out what it was, but then it d...

WITH the Jaguar’s return date now fast approaching, it recently asked for some attention when its service indicator light illuminated at just under 21 000 km. Usually when a car is booked in for a s...

This is a re-post, but it neatly answers one of the requests I’ve had for this series of blog posts – what makes a car stand out as special amongst the thousands of options on the market&#...

A week or so ago PSA (Peugeot/Citroën) CEO Philippe Varin announced the carmaker’s biggest losses ever – $6,7 billion for 2012. For many observers, the loss (though perhaps not the scale of i...

What would happen if two of the most common cars on South African roads, the previous-generation VW Polo and VW Golf Mk1 (later sold as the CitiGolf), met in a crash? Certainly, I’d prefer to be...