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Ford Turns Plastic Bottles into Carpets to Help Recycle More Than 1 Billion Drinks Containers Every Year
PRETORIA, South Africa, 27 June 2019 – Ford has found a clever way of reusing millions of plastic bottles. Each EcoSport SUV that the company produces is fitted with carpets made using 470 single-use plastic drink bottles.
Good breeding, clever design and cool colours – surely this is a winning recipe?
Getoets aan die einde van 2018, is die Ford Fiesta 1.5 TDCi Trend gekies as Galimoto Media en NamWheels se tweede “mees verbeterde” kar van die jaar. Uitmuntende kwaliteit, genoeg spasie, goeie padhouvermoe en ‘n algehele brandstof-verbruik van 4.1 liter per 100 km (ons beste nog), kon ons geensins anders laat kies nie.
Die nuwe Ford Figo is in September 2018 op die Suider-Afrikaanse paaie bekend gestel. Kort daarna het ons die nuwe luikrug weergawe getoets, en was baie verras met die nuwe Figo se ‘waarde-vir-geld’ (lees meer: https://www.namwheels.com/tested-2018-ford-figo-hatch-1-5-trend-auto/).
Some things suffer from unfair, unsolicited prejudice. Think of the perfume or aftershave your most hated boss wore, places where you got hurt as a kid, that song which reminds you of your ex, or food and drink that made you sick. See what I mean? They’re all completely innocent, much like the Ford EcoSport.
Acronyms are everywhere, especially in cars. Besides A.B.S., E.S.P. & Co., I’d like to introduce you to K.I.S.S. While the word is usually reserved for loved ones and that amorous aunty at Christmas, the abbreviation “Keep it simple, stupid” applies to my latest test car, the new Ford Figo.
Die finansiële druk om deesdae ‘n voertuig van punt A tot B te neem, raak al swaarder. Eerstens het die aankoopprys van voertuie oor die afgelope paar jaar drasties gestyg, met ons brandstof pryse wat ook nie veel help nie. Is daar dan tans ‘n voertuig op die mark, wat kop-bo-skouers uitstaan in terme van brandstofverbruik, en steeds kan voldoen aan die veriestes om genoeg individue en bagasie te huisves?
These two bakkies are closely related and we drove them back-to-back…
About a year ago, when the Western Cape was still cold and had relative water sources left, we took the Ranger FX4 3.2 Automatic on a camping excursion in the freezing Cederberg mountains. Proving an excellent mixture between a bakkie (workhorse) and a luxurious SUV, the FX4 took us through some of the toughest terrains.
Pam Brink was van 1950 tot ongeveer 1954 ‘n jong predikant op Lüderitz voordat hy ‘n beroep in Arusha, Tanganjika, aan die ander kant van Afrika aangeneem het. Maar dit was op Lüderitz wat die predikant, by wyse van spreke, tot “bekering” gekom het. Dit was nou toe hy Peugeot ontdek het!