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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: Subaru Forester XT

Off-road parks are a novel idea – you have off-road trails designed specifically to be conquered, within a short drive of the city, and you have experts to help you out along the way should something go wrong. But off-road parks are tried and tested; everyone knows they can be conquered. So what would happen when we deviated from the norm and decided to take on a construction zone and some naturally occurring terrain in an unlikely candidate, the Subaru Forester XT?

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First Drive: Opel Corsa Nurburgring Edition

‘Grasshopper Green’ – buy it in that colour, and don’t let us catch you even considering one of the other 3 paintjobs on offer. Yes, we’re talking about the Opel Corsa OPC Nurburgring Edition, which has just landed in SA. The green pays tribute to the Green Hell, which lends it’s name to this OPC model, but to what extent?

Review – Jeep Renegade 1.4 Limited 4×4
Review – Volvo V90 Cross Country T6 AWD Inscription
Opel Astra 1.4T Auto driven on Kyalami
Review – Haval H2 1.5T Luxury Auto

Road Review: Ford Fiesta ST

Over the years, ever since the original MK1 VW Golf GTI, there has always been an iconic hot hatch. Every new generation of spruced up hatchbacks has brought with it a new icon; or sometimes, just a new iteration of the original. In recent times, we have seen the Golf V GTI pass the mantle on to the Renault Clio RS, which was by all rights one heck of a driver’s car, but now the time has come for there to be a new king.

Review – Jeep Renegade 1.4 Limited 4×4
Review – Volvo V90 Cross Country T6 AWD Inscription
Opel Astra 1.4T Auto driven on Kyalami
Review – Haval H2 1.5T Luxury Auto

Road Review: Subaru Forester 2.0X

A manufacturer’s job is to sell you their car, to do anything within their power to quote facts and figures, performance times and fuel consumption, all in an effort to swoon you into joining the corporation for which they are employed. But as much as this is the case, it’s truly rare when such claims can be met in an everyday world, by everyday drivers, without the slightest bit of hassle. I encountered such a situation on my recent test of the Subaru Forester 2.0X, the entry level model of the Forester range.

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Road Test: 2013 Volkswagen Polo Vivo Maxx

“Nice isn’t a very nice word,” my English teachers used to tell me growing up, it’s a bland adjective and one no one would be happy to be described with. They were right, but wrong, for if there was no such word as “nice”, what would we compare all other adjectives to? You see, we need the boring, we need the bland, we need the mundane, especially in the automotive world, otherwise we’d never know an exciting car when we drove it. So would our Polo Vivo Maxx be mundane or mouth-watering to test out?

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Road Test: Foton Tunland 2.8 ISF Luxury

A bakkie is a bakkie is a bakkie…or is it? Foton have decided it’s time to take on the big boys in the bakkie world, and brought us the latest Foton Tunland double cab to test, so we could see just how close they are to competing with the rest of the pack. We received the 4X2 2.8 ISF Luxury model, which retails for R289 950, nearly 60 grand less than the closest similarly specced competitor. But how does it stack up?

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