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We’re about the kick of the Grand Prix season with the opening race in Melbourne Australia on Sunday 27 March. Right about this time the ZACS team likes to go back and hear whether F1-guru Sasha Martinengo’s tips are on the mark. To listen to that episode for yourself, click here for Episode 108. In other news, the team discusses the F1 engine changes to turbo-charged four cylinder engines for 2013  (A source close to ZACS has confirmed that he’s seen one for a pretty successful team on the test-bench already). And finally after some news from abroad and the local shores, we round up the show with a review of one of the show’s most special shows to-date, the Audi R8 V10 Spyder.

In Episode 110 the team discusses:

• The start of the F1 season in Australia
• New engines for F1 2013 season: Ecclestone and Todt battle it out verbally (via F1fanatic )
• MotoGP’s start with a Stoner on a Honda and an Italian on a Duke
• Mazda’s raw MX5 street racer (via CarScoop — gallery inside)
• Mercedes-Benz’s new SLK – you can read our initial news on it here – and the new C-class coupe
• Renault has produced the 1000th RenaultSport Clio Gordini and Christo suddenly gets bad thoughts about cars again
• Lexus says yay — and so do it’s customers — to towing with its hybrid SUV, the Lexus RX450h (via Lexus)
• ZACS Review: Audi R8 v10 Spyder

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Episode 108 of ZA Car Show comes to you from the driver briefing room at Xtreme Indoor Karting – one of Johannesburg’s newest, and best, karting venues. We were hosted by two-time world karting champion and South African production car champion, Leeroy Poulter, at his very own underground racetrack in Sunninghill.

In addition to having some fierce on-track competition, we also got around to talking about the upcoming Formula 1 season. F1 guru Sasha Martinengo joined us, and we got to talking about all the new rules and regulations. We also got some predictions for which drivers to watch out for this season.

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Good things come in threes, and this episode is no exception. With Christo away getting technology updates, the Trevors and Patrick explore the virtues of the Alfa Romeo MiTo MultiAir, Suzuki Vitara V6, Crazy Lamborghini theories and the death of the V6.

Nothing new here, move along...

...whoa, but look inside. Those crazy Ities know how to bad design descisions look awesome.

Trevor van de Ven was also one of the very few non-celebrities to attend the launch of a Ferrari 458 Italia in South Africa and despite considering a good deed, gets flack from the two opportunists trying to snap up freebies.

Do the desert war crawl up in here...

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In in 1954-5 you may have been born as a certain Mr. William Gates or Steven Jobs. In 1973  you would have been around 19 or 20, with an idea that, when you have made your millions, you might like something flashy in the garage. Poor example, we suppose because at least one of these men drives a fuel-sipping hybrid. However, 1973 was the year the sensible car was launched at the start of the oil crisis: the VW Passat. What would your car of 1973 be?

Witness the fitness of the sensible family car

With very little in the way of news, the team quickly skims over local and international happenings, before jumping right into the meat of the show: a car review, for a very funky – yet flawed – turbo hatch, and the “episode’s car of the year” challenge.

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It’s all about Formula 1 this week, with a smattering of news from the local scene. The team is joined by South African F1 Guru Sasha Martinengo, Absolute F1, Top Gear Live MPH presenter and 5FM DJ (@F1sasha – for the Twitter fans). He joins the team for the second time to discuss cars, the absurdity of the BMW 5-Series GT, a very old Ferrari and, of course, the 2010 Formula 1 Season.

@F1sasha joins the @zacarshow team for a second time. Much fun and laughter ensues.

BMW 5-Series Grand Turismo launched in SA this week.

Not the worst they could have done, not the best either.

After great feedback from last week, we’re going to continue offering a lo-fi version of the show, to save on bandwidth. This week’s show is quite long – 1h14mins, but well worth the megabytes.
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