ZA Car Show: Episode 21

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We’ve reached our 21st episode milestone and celebrate with one of our most fun shows to date. We discuss the latest news from the auto industry including the resignation of Chris Bangle who’s leaving to design …er…bangles; the Renault Clio Facelift and revival of the Citroen DS badge. The team also reviews the surprisingly good FIAT Grande Punto TJet and Audi A3 Convertible while wrapping it all up with by announcing the winner of the TomTom competition and helping a listener choose a car. Very entertaining, even if we have to say so ourselves.

A very pretty Frenchy

Show Notes, links to other stories and more after the jump

Chris Bangle hands BMW back his French curves and clutch pencils

Citroen revives DS badging – the original “Goddess”

Renault Clio III Facelift

Pirelli, Brembo and Magnetti Marelli develop a very clever tyre technology

Ford rumoured to be in talks to sell Volvo to China’s Geely... (Geely denies it)

Geely sales fail so badly in South Africa, it pulls out

And in other sad news, VW will be fitting an Airbag to the Citi Golf – can you say “Granny in fishnet stockings?”

Test Driven: Fiat Grande Punto 1.4 TJet (Specs and Media Release)

Very pretty and surprisingly good

Test Driven: Audi A3 2.0 TFSI Convertible

A3 convertible harks back to old VW Golf Convertibles

Listener query: What car for R2000 per month?

Winner of the Tom Tom competition is Cobus Kruger from Kempton Park. Thanks for all the entries, there are more competitions to come in future episodes.

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1 Comment so far

Comment by Tyrone, posted on February 22nd, 2009 at 9:17 pm

Meh. This Audi seems like a girls car. Keep it. I’ll have the 1 series instead I think – even though the 1 looks a little soft. Hmm… whens that Mito coming out. I so miss my 156′s.

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