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Toyota maintains production levels

Toyota South Africa Motors has announced that vehicle production at its production facility in Prospecton in Durban will continue at 100 per cent, despite the recent events caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan.
By CAR magazine - 19 May 2011

Seb the beatable

Round four of the Formula One circus heads to Turkey for the first European race of the 2011 season.
By Sudhir Matai - 6 May 2011

Bahrain F1 race cancelled

Formula One fanatics are going to have to wait an extra two weeks for the season to start, as organizers of the Bahrain GP cancel the race that was due to kick off the season on March 11. The first race will be the Australian GP on March 27.

By CAR magazine - 22 February 2011

Huge leap in exports of vehicles from SA

The improving global economy has had a very positive effect on the export of built-up vehicles from South Africa during the first three quarters of 2010.
By CAR magazine - 8 December 2010

Vettel – the fastest guy – won

CAR’s deputy editor wraps the 2010 F1 season, bemoans the folly of Ferrari’s strategy at Abu Dhabi, and toasts the crowning of the sport’s youngest ever World Champion.

By CAR magazine - 15 November 2010

Doing it for the team – not

Along with millions of other race fans around the world, I was aghast when I heard Rob Smedley, Felipe Massa’s engineer, passing on the thinly-veiled order to give way to Fernando Alonso at Hockenheim
By CAR magazine - 26 July 2010

A tale of new heroes and a brainless has-been

Silverstone victor Mark Webber voiced dissatisfaction with his team in no uncertain terms on Sunday, but the Red Bull bosses weren’t the only ones who bungled at the British Grand Prix, writes CAR Editor John Bentley.

By CAR magazine - 12 July 2010

Lewis steals the march?

Although many F1 pundits expected that the F-duct-adorned McLaren-Mercedes team would win the Canadian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton’s victory in Montreal was hard-fought and well deserved… especially because Fernando Alonso gave him hell, writes CAR associate editor Mike Fourie.
By CAR magazine - 15 June 2010

‘Seb bangs’ and other F1 hits

As the Formula One circus makes a belated return to Montreal, Red Bull needs to refocus itself and prepare for an onslaught from the so-called F-duct brigade, led by McLaren-Mercedes.
By CAR magazine - 10 June 2010

Renault gains Latitude

In a break from Renault’s more conventional compact offerings, the company is set to release a luxurious successor to the bizarre Vel Satis dubbed the Latitude.
By Gareth Dean - 9 June 2010

Dacia’s mini dirt-buster

Renault subsidiary Dacia has released details of a new compact SUV due for a wide variety of markets from next year. The Duster is Dacia’s solution to its perceived lack of a robust, value-for-money SUV with genuine off-road capability in many emerging markets.
By Gareth Dean - 9 December 2009

Findings: Global study of car buyers’ attitudes

The financial recession has had a varied effect on car buyers around the world, according to recent Tipping Point study by Synovate Motoresearch, the automotive division of leading global market research company Synovate.
By CAR magazine - 19 November 2009

MIND Q3 ’09 – Vehicle Exports in reverse gear

The export of built-up vehicles, which is supposed to be the lifeblood of the South African motor industry, tumbled by 45 per cent in the first nine months of 2009, figures show.
By CAR magazine - 19 November 2009

New Renault saloon here soon

The mid-size saloon segment has not traditionally been a strong market here in South Africa, but the introduction of such models as the Chevrolet Cruze, and now the Renault Fluence, seem to indicate that companies are pinning their future hopes on larger offerings.
By CAR magazine - 1 September 2009

SA’s shining export star is dimmed

Exports of built-up motor vehicles, which have been the stars in the South African automotive firmament for the past few years, have been dimmed severely by the global economic meltdown.

By CAR magazine - 7 August 2009

Vehicle export sales plunge

The global slowdown in sales has already taken a heavy toll on the export of built-up vehicles from SA. The volume has tumbled by more than 21% year-on-year for the first quarter of 2009 and the drop was share equally by car and light commercial vehicle shipments.
By CAR magazine - 5 May 2009

Automechanik’ for the People

Automechanika witnessed its first South African show at NASREC this month. Although new to SA, its roots go way back to 1971 in Frankfurt, where the idea was to showcase automobile parts and repair shop, service station and garage equipment…
By CAR magazine - 26 March 2009

Exports boomed in 2008, but future not so bright

Exports of built-up vehicles by South African manufacturers hit a new high point last year, with 284 211 units shipped out of the country. This was an improvement of 66 per cent on the figure of 171 237 recorded in 2007.
By CAR magazine - 5 February 2009

Lewis – brilliant, lucky, so-and-so!

Now that the Brazilian Grand Prix has wrapped up, CARtoday.com editor Mike Fourie reviews some of the highs and lows of the F1 season… Please add your two cents’ worth!
By CAR magazine - 3 November 2008

Points delight for Ford in Turkey

The BP-Ford World Rally Team achieved its hundredth consecutive points finish when drivers, Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala ran a one-two for victory at the Rally of Turkey on Sunday.
By CAR magazine - 17 June 2008

Loeb reclaims title lead at Acropolis Rally

Sebastien Loeb reclaimed the championship lead from rival Mikko Hirvonen in the 2008 WRC championship as he pitoted his Red Bull-liveried Citroën C4 to the second Acropolis Rally win of his career at the weekend.
By CAR magazine - 2 June 2008

No such thing as a cake walk

First England raised eyebrows by beating the Aussies, then France crushed Kiwi hearts in the second RWC quarterfinal, but Lewis Hamilton’s ignominious exit from the Chinese Grand Prix – while seemingly coasting to a championship-clinching finish – was simply astonishing.

By CAR magazine - 7 October 2007

Formula One back to abnormal…

Watching Sunday’s Belgian GP reminded me of what it feels like to exchange pleasantries with an ex lover following several years of separation. The race actually left me in greater discomfort – as if “The Ex” had broken my heart a week ago and then pretended nothing untoward had happened.
By CAR magazine - 17 September 2007

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