“Ze Germans are coming, ze Germans are coming!” you’ll have heard Opel South Africa proclaiming since last year. Well, ze Germans are here – the last of them being Opel’s compact SUV,
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Opel Mokka SUV now available in SA:
It’s a new segment for Opel in South Africa – the sub-compact SUV segment, or any SUV for that matter, wearing an Opel badge is a foreign concept to us locally; but as one of Opel’s
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Road Review – Chevrolet Cruze 1.4 Turbo LS Hatch:
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The perk of having a big brother with all the top tech and gadgetry is that you stand next in line to receive the hand-me-downs. Whilst kids might frown upon wearing second hand clothes, the Chevrolet Cruze stands prouder than ever with its new Opel-sourced 1.4-litre turbocharged engine.
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Chevrolet Sonic RS launched:
Chevrolet finally has an affordable halo model performance brand available to the public. As of this week, Chevrolet SouthAfrica has launched the Sonic RS, a halo in the Sonic range, featuring a 1.4-litre turbocharged engine, taken from the Opel Astra 1.4T. The RS moniker forms the first level of performance-orientated … Read more
Review: Opel Astra Sedan 1.4T Essentia Auto
For many years, big bang theorists and evolutionary believers have pondered and searched to find “the missing link”. Well for Opel, they’ve found it, or created it rather. It’s the Opel Astra sedan, back for the first time in nearly a decade! For a while, Opel were lulled into the European theme of hatchbacks, but South Africa felt neglected – after all, the Opel Astra Euro series sedans are some of the most popular old cars on our roads. But Opel has triumphantly stepped back into the saloon game without missing a beat, almost as if they’d never been gone.
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Review – Volkswagen Golf 7 1.4 TSI Comfortline DSG
“VW Golf”, a name synonymous with the term “the people’s car”, after all, most of us at some stage or another have driven a Citi Golf, or owned one, or learnt to drive in one; not to mention the fact that many of our parents did the same. So the Golf moniker has been around for some time, and it has always been known as the hatchback to set the bar, the benchmark so to speak. Now, with the 7th generation at hand, we begged the question, does this once again retain “benchmark” status? We had a week with the new Golf to find out…
