With production of the VW Beetle winding down in the ‘70s, VW approached Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro to come up with designs for a compact new hatchback and thus the legendary Golf was born. What no one could have anticipated was how a small creative…
With the 9 Hour, Castrol 1000, WesBank Modifieds – not to mention 20 Kyalami SA Grand Prix – and off-road events like the Roof of Africa, South Africa has a brilliant and enviable motorsport history. But while it’s revered, there aren’t many places where it’s…
If you’d bought a Renault 5 in South Africa in 1979, you could’ve claimed to have the best example in the world. This was no made up intoxicated pub-talk bragging – it was fact, direct from Renault of France, and judged on specification, quality of…
I’m torn. Half of me wants to believe I’m daily driving a genuine classic. A little red roadster turning heads and inciting finger points wherever it goes. The other part of me wants to admit it’s just an early ʼ90s Japanese sports car of little…
BMC attempted to secure the cheap go-anywhere military vehicle market for the British with the Mini Moke, but while it quickly became a cult hit, its lack of four-wheel drive and poor ground clearance limited its desirability with the armed forces. But there was another…
Dust, dust, dust – you just hope to see the sides of the road or the rear lights of the car in front. Catching the car ahead of you could mean that they had an ‘off’, took a wrong turn, had a flat tyre or…
Collectors the world over are snapping up the mid-engined Renault Clio V6 of the early 2000s. But while these machines are seriously cool, it is the nod of acknowledgment to its forefather (arguably the ultimate homologation special hot-hatch) Renault 5 Turbo that sees these youngtimers…
Former Cape Town-based Mini racer Trevor Noble now lives in Rotterdam, where he runs his own marine safety consultancy. Racing remains in his blood, but he’s moved out from behind the wheel to behind the lens and his weekends are filled with motorsport photography expeditions…
When talking Volvo in South Africa a few names crop up. The older generation will remember names like Arnold Chatz piloting the Swedish brand in race and rally events while many might have bought a vehicle from Lawson Volvo in the ‘60s and early 1970s.…
BMW’s 2002 carried on the brand’s resurgence that started with the arrival of the 1960s Neue Klasse (New Class) saloons – think of the 1500, 1800 and 2000 four-door models here. However, the ‘02’ part of the badge (standing for two-door) showed its real difference.…