ZA Car Show: Episode 44

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Firstly, apologies for putting up this episode later than usual. Starting with episode 45 – recording tonight – we will upload and post episodes within 12 hours of recording. The freshest news from SA’s only motoring podcast, just like you’d expect. There’s also a little something in the works for our 1st birthday. Watch this space.

Coming at you this week with the mad flavour of ZACS which is high in auto news insight an opinion and low in Christohydrates. The truth is Christo was swanning about on the Port Elizabeth Riviera, South Africa testing the new VW Passat CC (sorry we’re not allowed to call it a Passat anymore).

The team covers what turned out to be a very busy news week for the motor industry both locally and abroad. Hopefully it’s a sign of good things to come.

The pretty new SAAB 9-5. Trevor van de Ven has a thing for Swedes

The last time Christo tried to say "Sexy Ass" to a Mazda driver he got a blue eye.

Show notes and links to news stories after the jump.

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• Porsche tries to take over VW, raises too much debt and now gets taken over by the VW it wanted to control [via Autonews]
• SAAB unveils pictures of the new 9-5 [via Topgear]
• John Surtees’ son, Henry, dies in a freak accident [via GrandPrix.com] Link to YouTUBE clip of the incident
• New Volkswagen CC [More on ZA Car Twitter feed]
• New Mazda 3

We would have expected a little more excitement in here if the exterior is anything to go by

• Nissan GTR Prices for South Africa announced [via ZA Car Twitter feed]

Nissan GTR