Category: SUV

MINI has always been a brand that represents a strong sense of being, passion, authenticity and personal style. After cutting down their model offering from eight to just five models in 2014, the brand has instilled and grown its community far more through its ideals of the “sharing” economy. The Mini Cooper S Countryman remains...

Mercedes-Benz’s largest and most luxurious SUV to date has landed in South Africa, offering more space, more comfort and more luxury than ever before. The new Mercedes-Benz GLS is even larger than its predecessor, with a 60 mm longer wheelbase that provides increased interior spaciousness, and combines striking looks with outstanding comfort, agile handling and...

Mercedes-Benz has taken the wraps off its biggest, most luxurious GLA to date, ensuring the entry-level model in the brand’s successful family of SUV models rounds off its current compact-car generation in style. With the new GLA, the compact car family from Mercedes-Benz now consists of eight models globally that covers all bases: three wheelbase...

It began in the early 1970s as a collaboration between the then Daimler-Benz AG and Steyr-Daimler-Puch in the Austrian city of Graz. 41 years later, the Mercedes-Benz G-Class has become the stuff of which automotive legends are made. By far the longest-standing passenger car model series built by Mercedes-Benz, the G-Class is the forefather of...

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I love disruption, and more often than not, disruption comes with design and convenience. It’s interesting to watch brands get better with time while others become obsolete, disruption is necessary for progress and for change to happen. Nokia and BlackBerry were once one of the biggest mobile companies in the world; today I don’t have...

In 2015 Mercedes-Benz launched the V-Class into the South African market with a completely new approach to design, value appeal, comfort, and safety in the Multi-Purpose Vehicle (MPV) segment. Since then, the V-Class has gone from success to success exceeding sales targets globally, as well as within South Africa. The 2019 facelift refreshed the already...

The car is overwhelming on the road for everyone else but not for the person driving it. It has presence, it's a beautiful car, you can take it off-road and it will also last you longer as a classic car. Not everyone can afford this car but everyone one wants it.