Bad Investments: Pimping Your Ride

In the market for a new or used car? Be very careful of “over accessorising” your car. You could end up losing thousands of rands when the time comes to sell.

This warning comes from Darryl Jacobson, managing director of Burchmore’s. “Car buyers are often tempted into buying alluring or sexy accessories – anything and everything from spoilers to fancy sound systems. There is a common misconception that, when the time comes to sell, this will improve the resale value of the car. But that’s simply not true!” he stresses.

Unimog to the rescue; moving commemorative heavy artillery

Since re-introduction into the Southern African market the Unimog U4000 and U5000 have performed well in demonstrations for a number of industry segments, including mining, forestry, civil engineering and even some private entrepreneurs, who use their Unimog for recreational activities.

When the retired Defence Force members of the GEM Village in Irene, Tshwane, were donated a 25-pounder field gun...

The New Aston Martin V12 Zagato

With the final design signed-off and engineering development work progressing apace, Aston Martin today reveals the first images of the new V12 Zagato (road car) scheduled for production later this year.

The V12 Zagato is the pinnacle of the Vantage range.

RS4 - jy ry te f@*&#n vinnig

Ghilli man Draggin his helmet going fast

Graham Jarvis wins Roof of Africa 2011

Roof of Africa 2011 - Toughest in Africa

Feline junkie builds "em, drives 'em, races "em’

A racing driver, an engineer, a businessman and a fanatical cat lover don’t always have much in common, except if they are one and the same person.

That sums up cat-mad Cedar Lakes resident Markus Minihold and his wife Taryn, a work-from-home home executive who shares her spare time with their beloved cats.

JHB Motor Show proved a major success

The 2011 Johannesburg International Motor Show, staged at Expo Centre, Nasrec, from October 6-16, proved a major success for all parties involved. It certainly lived up to its positioning as the Blue Riband event for the South African motor industry and its associated organisations.

The show, which is one of only 20 events in the world to have received international accreditation from the world motor industry organisation, OICA, benefitted from pent up demand as the previous show had been held three years previously, in 2008. This is actually a biennial event, but the extra year gap was forced on the organisers by the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, where Expo Centre served as the global communications hub.

Imperial Toyota Dakar team to test Namib Desert

Following a successful international debut in the Morocco Rally last week, where a customer example entered by Belgian team Overdrive won two stages and ran with the leaders on each of the event’s six days, Toyota Motorsport’s 2012 Dakar Rally-bound racing...