Archive for June, 2009

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Rapidly approaching a year’s worth of podcasts, the team decided to invite someone who can help them find their way. The team this week is joined by Garmin South Africa’s Chief Technology Officer, Chris Crozier. South Africa is lagging behind in navigation technology and adoption, but this very interesting interview outlines the path to GPS’s ultimate  destination.

Mercedes' new entrant into the long E-Class lineage...

The CLK ceases to exist and in its place is this...

Another iconic car hits the SA shores

Show notes and links to news after the jump

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We’ve been doing this podcast thing for almost as long as Trevor Tuck owned crazy mommy vans. The insanity of it has gotten to him and he’s had to take a leave of absence. He will also tell you never to buy French cars, so we decided to see if we could push him over the edge by giving him a Renault Logan to use while his Peugeot dies a slow death. It’s no wonder he decided to miss the show this week. So, for the third week running we have a crew of three, Christo, Patrick and Trevor, who wish that they don’t have to discuss the international auto industry misery for much longer. We have to give it to Audi though for releasing teaser images of a sedan version of its coupe version of its sedan. Very clever . The team also reviews the 2009 BMW 520d – something that surprised us all – and wrap it up with the Daihatsu Terios, which is also surprising becuase it’s not a good one.

Sometimes our intitial predictions are all wrong...

...and other times we're right on the money.

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Finally after all the bunking by various members of the ZA Car Show crew we have a full house of Patrick, Christo and Trevors. The doom and gloom of the auto industry is…well…gloomy, so we dicided to all but ignore it and talk about happy things instead. Happy things in our books include: auto CEOs who know nothing about cars, Renault being cautioned in China for producing unsafe cars (oh the irony) and a right royal fight between the team over the Datsun Nissan 370Z.

R499 000 will buy you the new Nissan 370Z Manual with rev matching ...but for a bit less you could also get this - MINI Cooper JCW WC

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BMW's new Z4 - driven.

More pics and details after the jump!

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