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In one of the slowest, emptiest news weeks of the year, a cut-down ZA Car Show crew breezes through a few short snippets before breezing on through to the Isuzu 72-hour Endurance challenge at Gerotek. The result is a pretty short – but fun – show, weighing in at just over 30-minutes.

ZACS is part of Isuzu's attempt to break a 72-hour record...

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First, let’s start with the Hybrid Porsche because its more important than our other waffle.

Now with that out of the way, the fourth podcast of the year sees a team reunited. With all the seats filled the show is packed with more comment on Toyota’s recall in South Africa, a fresh onslaught of new vehicles expected at Geneva in a couple of weeks and ZA Car Show bring you the pricing of the BMW F10, BMW’s new 5-series. This came about as a glitch in the online virtual dealer on the local BMW ‘site revealed the pricing and spec-options ahead of the vehicle’s local launch.

MINI-rival will probably be better have fewer rattles and drive better

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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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Three up, the team is without Christo van Gemert this week in a show that it filled with opinion and news. This past week we saw GM on its last legs as a solvent company, Porsche with some dodgy financials and hidden loans and number of smaller brands looking for buyers. We also take a look into the local motoring news, hold off on the review of the BMW Z4 and deliver our driving impressions on the Audi Q5 3.0 TDI, an SUV that we wanted to hate.

Those alloys will set you back R24 000. Looks good though, no?

This, like most Audis, is a great place to be

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Is this the future of motoring? We hope not...

...this is more like it.

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