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ZA Car Show 161: The Topless Edition

christo — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:17:00 +0000

Christo, Patrick and Thomas Falkiner, our resident roadster drivers take on a journey this week covering the 60th anniversary of the disk brake. They also cover more interesting debatable topics like Jaguar’s appearance at the Mille Miglia, the recent Formula 1 race and the passing of the legendary Carroll Shelby.

BMW has been on a product assault announcing the the BMW 3-series Touring…

…BMW 1-series 2 door, can we call it a coupe?

And the BMW M135i…

…rounding up with the MINI John Cooper Works GP.

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ZA Car Show 160: Hellooooo!

christo — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:08:35 +0000

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Handling, handling, handling, that’s the news for this week’s episode of ZA Car Show. Nissan has confirmed that the Juke R will make limited production despite costing more than four times the price of a GT-R.

Jaguar meanwhile is hoping that its XJ Supersport displays the agility of a cat in its new role as a ‘ring taxi.

Toyota’s awaited, for South Africa anyway, 86 has been voted Dynamic Car of the Year.

Christo van Gemert represented ZA Car Show on the Blacktop Rally. 3500kms from Johannesburg to Cape Town and their chariot for the journey was a BMW M3 Convertible. He shares his experience and tells us why you have to enter it next year.

Finally we wrap it up with a review of the Citroen DS4 THP 200 and why you should not buy it, you should rather buy the diesel.

Specifications and pricing can be found here

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Wallpaper Wednesday: From Dylan, with love

christo — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:30:44 +0000

Each time we look at doing a Wallpaper Wednesday, we reach out to our Twitter audience and ask what they’d like to see. This week’s one came as a suggestion from one Dylan Laubscher - click his name for his site – who has some of his own shots to show off. With his permission, we’ve linked to his selection of wallpapers. And if we could add: we’re extremely jealous that he’s been able to shoot some of these cars. We’re also jealous that he’s got talent we can only dream of. Rock on, Dylan!

ZA Car Show 153: Let’s Chatz about cars

trevor — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:36:09 +0000

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We’re joined this week by Derik and Bradley Scorer from Arnold Chatz Cars. At ZA Car Show we’ve come to meet a great deal of people, but we’ve seldom met with guys who are as passionate about cars as Derik and Bradley. It’s easy to see why Arnold Chatz Cars, an independent Fiat and Alfa Romeo dealership in Johannesburg, was the first choice for establishing an Abarth performance centre when the brand was launched in South Africa. They share some light on what we might be able to expect from Abarth (like the Punto Scorpione that has Trevor weak at the knees) and some special editions that Abarth would like South Africans to have. It was the Arnold Chatz Cars ‘cash for clunkers’ programme that got us speaking to Arnold Chatz Cars in the first place as it’s a one-of-a-kind offer, especially in the lower end of the market.

By now you might have heard of the new Audi LeMans racers, the R18 E-tron quattro and R18 Ultra – the world’s first hybrid diesel racecar and the lightest Audi racecar respectively. It’s a rare moment when aesthetics and function marry so beautifully which is made even more impressive when it is on a racecar.

Jaguar has taken the time to pull the covers off of another incredibly beautiful model for lovers of estate cars with the Jaguar XF Sportbrake. Click on the image to view a full gallery.

And from the sublime to the ridiculous is Aston Martin’s Q customization programme. See some of the lunacy in the picture below that features its trunk-top rack for storing your bags. Click on the image to see a fully gallery of the strange customization options.

Land Rover also broke two records this week: it built the 1millionth Land Rover Discovery, a car we thoroughly enjoyed; and in South Africa it managed to collect over 1000 Land Rovers in a convoy breaking the previous Guinness Book of World Records record of 300-odd cars. Well done to all that participated.

Finally, Renault has rationalised its Clio range once more, making it cheaper and offering loads of customisation options. Are the changes enough to ensure a survival for this nearly-dead horse? We explore the options.

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ZA Car Show 151: We drove a Jaaaaag

trevor — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:21:48 +0000

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There are a of top motoring journalists in South Africa that we respect and we’re joined by one of them, Reuben van Niekerk (@ReubenVN), from ~~Car and Leisure~~ Ikara, joins us this week to talk about his crazy passion for air-cooled VWs, Hot Wheels and a couple of other news snippets from the motoring world.

Reuben and Trevor were on the local launch of the 2012 Punto. Last week, Christo gave you the facts, this week these two die-cast collectors tell you what it’s actually like to drive.

There’s also a flurry of new cars being announced at Geneva in March, while South Africa has had the left over GTI35 editions offloaded, but it’s really the review of the Jaguar XJ 3.0TDI that you want to listen to. What is it that BMW and Mercedes Benz have to fear, is it a Jag?

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Beautiful, just beautiful.

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ZA Car Show 142: @JTBeale needs a new car

trevor — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:32:16 +0000

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Our friend and contributor John Beale needs a new car so Thomas Falkiner, Christo van Gemert, Trevor van de Ven, Patrick Gearing and journalism student Dean Venter put their collective heads together to show what sensible options can be thought up if you crowd source. The team, without Mr Beale who was eating sushi without us, also review the new Honda Accord 2.4 automatic and give you the low down on the motoring news from the past week.

The rebirth of the exciting Toyota. This flat four developed in conjunction with Subaru looks as if it has all the right ingredients to steal customers from the hot-hatch market. Click on the image to see a full gallery (you will be redirected away from this page).

Machbach is dead, Merc is pulling the plug. They are not the most handsome or striking cars but Trevor van de Ven still gets a bit teary eyed knowing that he will not see another all-white Landaulet again.

Patrick and Trevor love wagons. They also love Jaaaaags, so this car should put them both in a flat love-induced coma.

The new Honda Accord sports a dramatically revised front-end even if it's only the hawk-eyed that will spot the changes. Under the skin, this car is phenomenal. Take a listen to the show to find out what we think. Click on the image to view a full gallery (you will be redirected away from this page).

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ZA Car Show 135: Pre-JMS wrapup

trevor — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:08:43 +0000

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What a week. With the start of the Johannesburg Motor Show kicking off at the NASREC show complex on 6 October, there is a lot to get excited about. Brent Ellis, a freelance motoring journalist and photographer, is a the special guest this week and he joins Trevor van de Ven, John Beale and Patrick Gearing (who isn’t on twitter so his name isn’t underlined) for the 135th recording of South Africa’s only dedicated motoring podcast. They discuss the local launches of the Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel, a sub-R500 000 entrant into the Jaguar model lineup that is sure to throw the [leaping] cat amongst the pigeons (do you see what we did there?) and the local launch of the Audi RS3 Sportback a sub-5 second 0-100km/h smack upside the head the bigger, quick hyper-saloons. Finally they wrap the show up with road tests of the 2011 Mercedes Benz C250 CDI Coupe and the 2011 Suzuki Kizashi manual.

Is that the handsome Jaguar XK? No, it's the updated XF and if you thought it could not get any more handsome, it just did. Click on the picture to see a full gallery of the updated Jaguar XF.

Sit back, think about the fact that is replaces the three-door hatchback CLC and then marvel in how much better it is in every respect, from looks to performance and more. Click on the image to go to a full gallery of this handsome car.

Objects in this picture appear are much larger than they appear. What did the team think of the new Suzuki Kizashi? Listen to find out. Click on the picture to see a full gallery of this car.

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ZA Car Show 134: Frankfurters

christo — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:30:42 +0000

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In ZACS 134, John, Patrick and Christo discuss the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show - each picking their personal highlights from the many awesome vehicle on display.

Christo backs Germany and picks three not quite road-legal cars; Patrick chooses three Italians; and John tips his hat to three English arrivals. To make sure all bases are covered, our intrepid trio also selected some “pity cars” – vehicles that are noteworthy, but didn’t quite fall into their “we want one now” criteria.

The Lambo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale. Click here for a gallery.

The Landy DC100 concept - a possible Defender replacement. Click for gallery.

The Ferrari-engined Maserati Kubang is a Jeep underneath. Click for a gallery!

After all that mega-horsepower excitement, they try cool down by reviewing the Volkswagen Passat. The consensus is that it’s not a bad car. But also not one you’ll remember having driven or owned. Listen to the show for all the details.

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Wallpaper Wednesday: Engine Porn Edition

christo — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:18:22 +0000

Sometimes a car has to bare it all for us to see what really makes it so appealing. That machine under the bonnet (or bootlid, in Porsche’s case) can be responsible for stomach-churning acceleration, hair-raising wails and many joyous victories. And sometimes – just sometimes – they can also be pretty spectacular to behold.

So here’s to the internal combustion engine. May its many thousands of explosions per second continue delivering thrills for the next few decades.

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ZA Car Show: Episode 94

trevor — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:56:13 +0000

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Three men, seven cars, countless individual views. Episode 94 of ZA Car Show features local and international news on BMW and SAAB, Chevrolet’s South African plans, Mazda’s booted 2 and two new concepts from Jaguar and Lamborghini.

Very pretty and non-German looking, what are Germans supposed to look like anyway?

...tasty rump...

Christo also reports back on the launch of the face lifted BMW X5 and Opel Atra while the Patrick and Trevor review the 2010 Suzuki SX4 4X4.

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