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What you need to know: We actually tested this model before, about a year ago and in exactly the same colour. Back then I described its heavy automated roof (plus 160kg) and automatic box-o-cogs as giant flies in the otherwise enjoyable soup of MX-5 deliciousness. Has anything changed?
Die kleiner luikrug mark in Suider-Afrika is tans baie kompiterend, met vele keuses vanaf elke vervaardiger. Mazda het pas hul nuwe 2-reeks luikrug uitgebring met sewe model keuses. Ons het besluit om die nuwe model oor ‘n 800km roete te neem om te sien of dit kan kers vashou by die kompetisie.
After years of defending naturally-aspirated engines as a more reliable, long-lived and linear equivalent of the modern turbo-downsizing malarkey, this free-breathing Mazda3 prompted me to reconsider that statement…
Die motor industrie is tans by ‘n geweldige keerpunt. Nie net raak enjins kleiner nie, maar verkies vele vervaardigers om ander alternatiewe tot brandstof te vind. Hierdie innoverende tegnologiese ontwikkelinge het geweldige voordele, dog ook nadele. So waar staan die nuwe Mazda 3 in hierdie opsig?
What you need to know: The Mazda MX-5 is dead, long live the Mazda MX-5! Where before you could buy the manual soft-top, manual gearbox roadster, Mazda S.A. decided to ditch that in favour of this new electric “targa” hard-top, automatic RF model. The main reason for this, I suspect, is to widen the target audience.
These two bakkies are closely related and we drove them back-to-back…
Narnia’s Closet
On 23/24 February Galimoto Media checked into the Arabella Hotel & Spa, Kleinmond for what was to be the launch of the all-new Hyundai Creta. Promised to be an exciting two days and getting to know Hyundai’s new creation, we were given some alone time with the vehicles to formulate our opinions.
So here’s something different. Each year we list our favourite new cars which were launched over the last 12 months but this time around, instead of us telling you which ones we liked, our Facebook page invited YOU to vote your favourite new ride of 2016.
The list of candidates was chosen from the launches we attended or vehicles we thought were brilliant newcomers and worthy of being included in this line-up.
There’s an itching in your soul. Somewhere between cellphone bills, more grey hairs, meetings about meetings and the school run you feel a void of unhappiness. What you have my friend, is a mid-life crisis, and the only thing that’ll fix it is a little red convertible sports car. May I suggest the new Mazda MX-5?
