John Beale

Having spent several years developing marketing strategies across digital and traditional media, John Beale found his passion on the social side of digital and is now a digital strategist at Cerebra Communications (www.cerebra.co.za). His days are spent developing social media strategy and campaigns for clients and nurturing an unhealthy passion for cars. He blogs at jtbeale.com, talks everything motoring on the ZACarShow podcast (www.zacarshow.co.za) and tweets as @jtbeale on Twitter.

Posts for John Beale

Reader’s Review: Lexus GS450h

John Beale | Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 11:23 am GMT +2

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Why buy a Lexus these days? The Germans are proliferating model ranges, adding letters and numbers to the range at every point and turn. It seems there is no depth to the number of iterations on one m...

Readers review: BMW 320d

John Beale | Friday, May 11th, 2012 09:50 am GMT +2

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I have always regarded the BMW 3 Series as the ultimate executive saloon. My family has owned 3 of the previous models, so I was eager to see if the new F30 (BMW code name for the new 3-Series) improv...

Driving Impression: Toyota Yaris 1.3 XS

John Beale | Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 12:11 pm GMT +2

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When Toyota first launched the Yaris it filled a much-needed gap, and took on the VW Polo head on. The Yaris simply offered more, least of which the positive connotations that the Toyota nameplate bri...

BMW 116i review

John Beale | Monday, January 16th, 2012 01:14 pm GMT +2

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The first time I laid eyes on the BMW 1 Series I really didn’t like the looks. No, I guess that’s an understatement … kind of like saying Lady Gaga’s meat dress was wasn’t really featured in...

Reader Review: Volvo C30 D2

John Beale | Monday, August 15th, 2011 11:29 am GMT +2

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Volvo has been on a rather aggressive drive to position its cars as slightly more youthful than days of yore. No more station wagon safety connotations but rather aggressively styled and good value fo...