Car Reviews

Motoring speak is often like a foreign language—what with all the acronyms! So it was with great interest that I accepted an invitation to drive a “B-SUV”. Now, we all know and understand the term Sports Utility Vehicle and we’ve come to accept the Americanism (SUV) to describe these station wagon 4x4’s that mostly populate the car parks in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. But a B-SUV? I thought back to my early days as an employee of Nissan, when we cut the rear cab off a “bakkie” and literally glued a fiberglass “wagon“ section with a rear door on. That invention became the station wagon 4x4, known and loved by South Africans as the Sani. Read More

To say it’s small is somewhat of an understatement. If it was a boxer it would be a bantamweight but it would be a champion! With a kerb mass of 1070 kg the Suzuki Jimny is easily the smallest real 4x4 around. And with a heritage traced back to two legends, the SJ410 and the Samurai, it’s no wonder this firecracker is somewhat of a performance icon. Read More

The new Mitsubishi Pajero Sport is the full package, no matter which way you look at it. This is a car you will use to dart through town to make a lunch meeting with an important client, after which you can stop for a By that I mean it isn’t a massive fuel guzzler that screams ‘I would be bush whacking — if I could find a bush!’. Read More

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