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Dit voel soos nou-die-dag wat ek as student van die Strand af na Stellenbosch toe geryloop het en my eerste saamrygeleentheid in ‘n splinternuweToyota Stout bakkie gekry het. Wat vir my interessant was omdat die eerste volgrootte Japannese bakkie was waarin ek gery het. Wat opgeval het was die lae ratverhouding van die bakke wat nie baie vinnig kon loop nie maar wat soos ‘n stoomlokomotief teen Louw-se-Bos uit getrek het.
Four point five litres per hundred kilometres; that was the average consumption of the new Toyota Prius I recently drove for two days on its official launch. The third generation Prius will shortly be available from selected Toyota dealerships to maintain and build on its ecological and economical image. Especially the second model (2003) made the Prius into a runaway success, so much so that in April 2008 it smashed the one million sales mark since its first incarnation arrived in 1997.
Renault’s latest television commercial will have us believe that people have been using their dependable French cars as adventurous off-roaders for quite some time, which makes the first four-wheel-drive Renault a kind of big deal.