DCT
Padtoets: 2022 Hyundai Venue 1.0 TGDI Fluid DCT
Hyundai se Venue gereed om meer aan te durf
Sedert Hyundai se Venue, 4-jaar gelede die klein-SUV mark aangevat het, het hierdie einste mark veel meet mededingend geword. Veel meer nasies het die stryd aangedurf en ’n grote markaandeel vanaf die Suid-Koreaners geneem. Nou, met ‘n “nuwe” gesig, is die Indiese vervaardigde Venue, slaggereed om die aandeel in hul guns te draai.
Sprint Review: 2022 Hyundai i20 1.0T N Line
Before we even get started, please note: this is not the full-fat, swivel-eyed i20 N model. What you’re looking at now is a mildly modified 1-litre turbo-petrol derivative. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing…
First Drive: 2020 Hyundai Creta
How do you keep the insatiable SUV market interested in your wares? By refining them, of course. Hyundai South Africa just showed us how it’s done…
Sprint Review: Mercedes-Benz CLA200
How does that old saying go…? “Competition never sleeps.” This is one of the main reasons why Mercedes-Benz is in the middle of a full-on product offensive. Next to new gizmos and a mushrooming SUV line-up, they’ve also updated their entry-level offerings.
Sprint Review: Ford Figo Hatchback 1.5
“There’s no replacement for displacement…” is an often-used phrase whose author I couldn’t determine. Usually it goes together with enormous V8 motors but it also applies to this cut-price Ford Figo model…
Padtoets: 2020 Hyundai Venue 1.0T
Die klein Sportsnutsvoertuig-klas hou aan uitbrei in Suider Afrika en soos ons alhoemeer sien, trek selfs die grootste vervaardigers hul sedan modelle uit die mark. Hyundai is een van die mees onlangse vervaardigers wat hul sportsnuts model reeks meer uitgebrei het met die nuwe Venue.
Bekendstelling: Hyundai Elantra
Nuwe Hyundai Elantra; nou ook met ‘n sportiewe variant
Die nuwe Hyundai Elantra is nou al ‘n rukkie met ons. Maar daar is weer nuwe lewe geblaas in ‘n model wat met sy bekendstelling ‘n paar jaar gelede die koppe behoorlik laat draai het. Al was dit net vir die sprankelende voorkoms en lyne! Van die kant gesien was dit moeilik om hom van die Beierse vervaardigers te onderskei – behalwe vir die baie billiker prys. En natuurlik het hierdie model in 2012 die prys as Suid-Afrikaanse Motor van die Jaar vir hierdie stilering, en hantering, verwerf.
Sprint Review: Kia Sportage 1.6T GT-Line DCT
One new car, lots of information in short paragraphs.
What you need to know: Kia’s new Sportage is closely related to its Korean cousin, the Hyundai Tucson. Besides sharing a lot of technology, the relation is evident in both vehicle’s stylish looks. Where a Tucson shows flowing lines, the Sportage was penned with more determined strokes of the pen.
The emperor’s cogs
Dual-clutch gearboxes are rubbish
There, I said it. Somebody had to, eventually, although I’ve been preaching this for what seems like a decade. DSG, DCT, S-tronic, MCT, it doesn’t matter what you call an automatic shifter with more than one clutch – they’re fairly terrible most of the time.