Category: SUV

If there is anything Mercedes Benz got right, it has been the transformation of the A class, it used to look like a smaller mommy car which is similar to the current B Class. I remember that before the A Class was launched it was said that it was targeted at a younger audience and...

On Monday we landed from the ‘South Africans Travel Too‘ trip from Zambia through Zimbabwe and I had one last trip to make before the year ended. Come Wednesday I headed straight back to the airport to make my way to George. Now there is something cool about flying in so that you can fly...

Velar is an very old name for a very modern Range Rover. Automakers mining their history for neglected nameplates isn’t new, of course, but all the same few spend so long in the cold as Velar did. Used, nearly five decades ago, on the first “hiding in plain sight” prototype Range Rovers, the badge is...

Someone said that the SUV is the new station wagon and to be honest, I think that’s what has happened. The trend of SUV has taken over the market in the last few years, especially since the introduction of the X5. I’m all for aesthetics and design so when Jaguar got a new design I...

As a young boy growing up in the township I had a dream just like many others that I would one day drive the best car on the streets. At that time the main contenders were the BMW and Mercedes Benz sedans. These were the popular options for the well off. Magintsa included. Off road...

The people of Volvo South Africa dropped of the sexy v40 v40 Cross Country D4 by the offices in Rosebank on a Wednesday morning. I got the chocolate brownish colour one, I don’t know, I expected it to be in red for some reason or white. I have always thought Volvo is a boring brand...

When life finally decides to come together, everything ends up making sense. How we react to different circumstances thrown at us will determine where our future or life is headed. I have indeed experienced the full potential of life.  Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Dennis...

I put a post-up on social media the other day talking about how much I miss the airport. It was not much the airport itself that I missed, it was just a case of the travel bug seeping in. Since January this year, I have had the privilege of work related travel opportunities and they...

I love the idea of being a child and I think I appreciate being a kid more now than I did before. What I really miss about being a kid is the discovery process, discovering things for the first time.  The questions, the authentic interest that you had because you really wanted to understand. Understand...

Any luxury SUV fan knows a new Range Rover is something worth getting excited over, and so consider our curiosity piqued at the British marque’s upcoming car. The Range Rover Velar will be the fourth member of the automaker’s line-up, borrowing a historic name from the late 60s. Intriguingly, though, it’ll actually be the first...