Road Tests

Hot Renault’s have traditionally been bone shatteringly hardcore, barely similar to the standard vehicle on which they had been based. There’s good reason for this too.

The best way to get behind the wheel of a new Land Rover without having to re-mortgage your house? Simple: become a rugby player – a bastion for one of South Africa’s most loved sports.

When it comes to the coupling of organizations and celebrities I have always been a little skeptical. Perhaps because I no longer know if the Parlatones are a “rock band”, employees of KFC…

Once in a while, BMW’s M division go a little crazy. We’ve seen it with the M Coupe of the 1990s, those behemoth X5 and X6 M models and we’ll see it again with the 1-Series M Coupe which is set to arrive soon

Top Gear was not always as we know it today, in fact the original series of Top Gear ran from 1977 to 2001 before it is was overhauled into the show we now know and love.

It was a cold, miserable and rainy morning I woke to, but I could not have been happier for it was once again time for the Top Gear Festival.

Fiat have a reputation for giving their models a bit of pep, by giving them some cool-sounding name and performing subtle cosmetic nip-tucks here and there.

The term “GPS” has been successfully assimilated into our collective consciousness more firmly than Charlie Sheen’s shenanigans. Even our grandparents are more than comfortable bandying the term about and indeed the devices themselves are becoming as common as cell phones.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,” it was the time of Top Gear and the weekend of rain.

The Mercedes S Class has a reputation for being the most technologically advanced executive saloon in the world – for good reason too. There’s not a bit of kit in any car you’ve ever driven that wasn’t in the S Class first…