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Archive for September, 2008

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Posted on September 08th, 2008 by admin

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With the crew back in full swing for episode 3 we tackle the following topics:

• The world’s prettiest cars according to a top 10 list provided by Jalopnik, including Alfas, Astons, Audis and others.
• Audi’s new A4 Avant arrives.
• Car-buying costs – how dealers are shafting us.
• Ridiculous option lists and how they bite you in the ass when selling.
• Audi – again – with the RS6. Who’d pay a million bucks for an Audi? (R8 excluded)
• The big three from Germany. How are Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz stacking up, today?
• Some talk about the 2006 Auto Africa Expo, and tips from us for the next expo…
• Speaking of Auto Africa -  we mention a little surprise for Johannesburg International Motor Show (JIMS, ex Auto Africa).
• Power! We think some cars have way to much power. What do you think?
• We ponder whether hot hatches have lost the plot. We talk about the Civic Type-R, Focus ST, Golf GTI and more.
• Tuckie shares some Opel love. And Trevor van de Ven admits to lusting after a BMW.
• Trevor and Christo talk about the SEAT Leon Cupra, which they’ve driven, and we talk about the SEAT range overall.
• Trevor spotted the face lifted Focus ST in traffic, which leads us onto the Focus RS and LSDs in front-wheel drive cars.
• Tuckie laments the demise of Subaru’s Impreza sedan, which they’ve now replaced with a hatch. He compares its shape to a potato, and mentions how the new Evo X looks a lot hotter.
• Patrick tells us about his atrocious service experience at a certain Alfa dealership. We might make this a regular spot. Not because his car’s always at the dealership, but because there’s always some clutchplate messing things up for motorists.

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Posted on September 04th, 2008 by admin

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Part Deux is recorded sans the only intelligent sounding guy on the panel, Patrick Gearing, but his position is ably taken up by ZA Tech Show regular Duncan McLeod from the Financial Mail.

Under discussion in this episode:

• Hummer driving sales by advertising fuel economy.
• The small engine big car strategy we talk VW’s 1.4TSI – turbo and supercharged – engine.
• Forced induction; good idea or high maintenance costs.
• Turbo cars in motor sport – killing the game?
• The Audi Q7 4.2, Christo gives us his impressions.
• Our advice on SUV purchases.
• WiFi, lane wandering alerts and cool or useless technology soon to be built into cars.
• We give the Department of Transport some advice on how to alleviate traffic on South Africa’s national highways.
• Duncan brings up the Fiat 500 again.
• The tame racing driver lusts after a Chana Star Bakkie after Nissan pulls the plug on the Champ.
• We all lust after RenaultSport models speaking about the launch of the R26 and R27.
• Tuck again reveals strange fetishes for minivans while we talk about the Mazda CX7, Renault Espace and Mazda 5.

And more…

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Posted on September 04th, 2008 by admin

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The inaugural episode (take two) of ZA Car Show – under discussion in this episode:

• We introduce ourselves, Christo van Gemert, Trevor van de Ven, Patrick Gearing and the tame racing driver, Trevor Tuck we also talk about our motoring heritage.
• The New BMW X6 and debate whether it’s answering a question that’s never been asked.
• The Subaru Tribeca and Forrester and how diametrically opposite they are.
• Nissan’s Qashqai, 4×4 and Diesel variants launched in SA, who are these cars made for?
• The death of the Ford Ka and what other affordable cars are available in SA for under R100k.
• Sad passing of Andrea Pinifarina.
• The fancy exorbitantly priced Fiat 500, have retro people-cars lost their focus and is the Mazda 2 really the benchmark.
• The Euro NCAP is killing fun cars.
• Fiat’s Bravo, a sad case of Fiat’s reputation killing a good car.

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Posted on September 04th, 2008 by admin

Apple has launched the South African iTunes Music Store to provide apps to iPhone and iPod Touch users. Unfortunately Apple has disabled the podcast directory for South African iTunes account holders, and those of most of the new stores recently launched. If you subscribed before the switch then you will be unaffected by this, but new users from the South African store receive a message stating, “The item you’ve requested is not currently available in the South African store” when trying to view our listing, or subscribe. Fortunately there is a way to get around this.

• Open iTunes and click on ‘iTunes Store’ in the left panel.
• Scroll to the bottom of the store’s front page and find ‘My store:’.
• In the drop down menu next to ‘My Store’ select United Kingdom or United States.
• After the page has refreshed search for ‘ZA Car Show’ in the store directory and subscribe.

Hopefully Apple will soon rectify what must be an error in its store rollout. Until then, please share this workaround with your networks.

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