ZA Car Show: Episode 24

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Heading rapidly for a full half-year of motoring podcasts, the team of Trevor van de Ven, Christo van Gemert, Patrick Gearing and Trevor Tuck take a look at some local motoring news in South Africa from its motor sportsman of the year to the two South African built supercars and budget cars.  Are you in the market to buy an SUV? Listen to this podcast to get some opinons on you should rather be buying the Honda Accord Touring.

South Africa's first hypercar - Porsche-powered LeMans lookalike for the road

Italian design, American power, South African labour. The Perana name is revived and will be showcased at Geneva home of the United Nations - how apt.

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In this episode we discuss:

• A tribute to City Press motoring journalist, Steve Dlamini-Kabini, who passed away in a motorcycle accident
• Bridgestone Motorsportsman of the Year and Colin Watling Award
• South Africa’s super-cars
• Eastern Cape-built Perana Z-one Zagato
• Bloemfontein-built Barnard
• Alfa Romeo MITO GTA – serious power
• Renault launches its Sandero to local markets – the first locally produced Renault since the ’80s
• Audi Q5
• Test Driven: Honda Accord Tourer

Beautiful for just about any angle. The honda Accord Tourer is a seriously large car.

The Tourer and its brother, the Accord Sedan. The Tourer is far more handsome.

More modern and luxurious than the C-Class and 3-Series, plus its loaded to the hilt with technology as standard.

• and more…

2 Comments so far

Comment by R.M., posted on July 12th, 2009 at 11:24 am

Christo writes:

Italian design, American power, South African labour. The Perana name is revived and will be showcased at Geneva home of the United Nations – how apt

Wouldn’t be accurate this way: Italian “styled”, American power, South African “designed”?

After all, if memory serves me correctly, the chassis and the plan or layout of associated mechanicals were conceived by “Superperformance” of South Africa. The “styling” of the sports coupe’s outer body was of course outsourced to an Italian concern, as the engine too, happens to be an off-the-shelf item that just so happen to be American in origin.

Comment by R.M., posted on July 12th, 2009 at 11:31 am

^Furthermore, the Perana was a Superformance initiative; they hold the design authority for it, as alluded to in the last comment.

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