With this amount of power, these mountains of torque and such brutal acceleration, I could only do a sprint review on this beastly new BMW X3.
X3
Padtoets: 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio 2.0T Super Q4
Die kompakte SUV-mark (Sportsnutsvoertuig) raak ál hoe meer versadig met elke vervaardiger wat deesdae probeer om hul stempel af te druk. Alfa Romeo is ook een van die nuutste vervaardigers wat hierdie mark probeer betree met hul nuwe ‘luukse’ SUV.
Padtoets: 2018 BMW X3 3L Turbodiesel
Ons kamp met die nuwe BMW X3
Om te gaan kamp is vir vele ‘n heerlike naweek aktiwiteit. Kombineer dit met een van die Wes-Kaapse areas wat die meeste reënval per jaar kry en ‘n uitstekende Sportsnuts voertuig en die naweek word skielik ‘n fees. Ons het immers toevallig besluit om juis die naweek te gaan kamp, wat die Wes-Kaapse damme vir die eerste keer in ‘n drie jaar periode, ‘n positiewe rekordsyfer behaal.
Tested: Mercedes-Benz GLC300
The right ingredients
Mercedes-Benz has been a pioneering brand from day one of the car and it’s not often that this German outfit is caught napping. Perhaps they were dozing slightly when sales figures of medium-sized luxury SUV’s shot skywards; led by the BMW X3 and Audi’s Q5. Mercedes’ answer, the GLC, only arrived last year.
0-100km/h times [2012]
The trump cards
Many people will argue that naught to a hundred times are childish and irrelevant, an automotive statistic only useful at the bar counter or in a pack of trump cards. Others will defend this benchmark test as a measure of a car’s performance, perhaps even reasoning that it’s important to know how quickly a car accelerate away from potential harm, or onto a motorway.
Padtoets: Range Rover Evoque
‘n Range Rover vir die jonger, stylvolle geslag
Vandat die Range Rover Evoque verlede jaar op die mark gekom het, het dit wêreldwyd groot belangstelling uitgelok en was dit met hoë verwagtings dat ek die Evoque onlangs in ontvangs geneem het.
Tested: 2012 BMW X1 xDrive28
The embarrassing imposter
The sports utility vehicle (SUV) market has been booming internationally and on local shores, no doubt bolstered by city dwellers with a taste for the big wide outdoors. BMW cottoned onto this long ago with their X5, X3 and X1 sports activity vehicles (SAV).
Tested: 2011 BMW X3 xDrive35i
The storm trooper
Time for some history lessons. BMW stands for Bayrische Motoren Werke, which means Bavarian Motor Works. Bavaria is a province of Germany and saw the birth of BMW in 1916. The white on blue propeller badge pays tribute to aircraft engines which the company produced in its early years.
Tested: 2010 Subaru Outback 2.0 Diesel
The bloated estate
I’m assuming that some of you have just returned from a long, hot and tiresome holiday trip ready to trade in the spouse’s ageing wheels. In your absence, most dealerships have steam-cleaned the driveway, topped up the coffee machine and are waiting (some, anxiously) for your visit.
Dakar 2010
Dakar 2010: Volkswagen doen dit weer!
Ná veertien dae en 9 000 km in Suid-Amerika het Volkswagen met sy renweergawe-Touaregs dit weereens gedoen; hulle het die eerste drie plekke in die wêreld se taaiste tydren gewen!