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SA’s Elon Musk Slams New York Times For Poor Review Of His Electric Car
15 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
New York Times reporter, John Broder recently wrote a damning review of Tesla Motor’s Model S sedan. In response, Tesla president Elon Musk issued a data-driven take down of Broder’s review, and for all intents and purposes, the reporter looked to be a liar. But he has hit back, reports Wired Magazine. The first point Broder […]
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British Psychopaths Complete Drive From Cape Town To London Without Dying [PICS]
13 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At the end of last month, we predicted that these two guys would probably die. Well, here’s our steaming humble pie. Two British adventurers, Philip Young(64) and Paul Brace (45), left Cape Town on 1 February for a trans-continental drive. The two left the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town in their 875cc Fiat Panda, to drive the […]
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Behold, The Quickest Car In The World [VIDEO]
28 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Look upon the Hennessey Venom GT, the world’s fastest production car. It managed a ridiculous 300 km/h in 13.63 seconds, all while remaining street legal. Get yours for only $1.2 million.
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The Ultimate Safe Driving Playlist
14 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa has just come off the back of yet another festive season crippled with road deaths. It seems appropriate then that an experiment has revealed the ultimate safe driving songs playlist.
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Kiwis Teach Dogs To Drive [VIDEO]
07 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For reasons that are not altogether clear, a group of New Zealanders have spent eight weeks teaching two abandoned dogs to drive. The ultimate tast is to have a dog drive a Mini Clubman around a track without human help.
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The Bearded Wiseman Navigates Sandton In A TukTuk, Does Alright [VIDEO]
29 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
At the beginning of this month, we sent the Bearded Wiseman off on an expedition to Jozi. It was no ordinary mission – he had to compete in an Amazing Race-like challenge in a TukTuk around the Sandton CBD.
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Monarch Tuksi’s Hit The Streets Of Cape Town
14 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The Monarch Tuksi Company has recently launched a fleet of 10 Tuksi’s, or tuk-tuks, onto the streets of Cape Town.
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Man’s Lamborghini Impounded For Unpaid Ticket
26 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s no denying that a Lamborghini is a highly desirable motor car – especially the über-sexy 2012 Aventador. Some people will do anything to get one, even at the high price of R3,75 million. Spending all that cash may leave you a little broke, so much so that you can’t pay your tickets.
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Electric Cars May “Pose Environmental Threat”
05 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this is disappointing. New research that examined the life-cycle impact of conventional and electric vehicles shows that in many cases electric cars might pollute much more than petrol or diesel-powered cars. So if you are looking to buy an electric car to save the planet, you could, in fact, be harming it.
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Hot Wheels Corkscrew IRL [VIDEO]
17 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hot Wheels have to be one of the best toys ever. Getting mini cars to do flips and twists landing back on the track only to roll on into a service centre, or maybe just onto another set of crazy loops, was the best. What’s better than this miniature craziness turned full scale? Click Through to find out.
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Petrol Price Hike Explained – Oil Imports From Iran Drop To Zero
03 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As the petrol price is set to increase by 93 cents a litre on Wednesday, it’s been revealed that South Africa imported no crude oil from Iran last month, traditionally one of our biggest suppliers.
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California Passes Autonomous Car Law, Gives Robot Cars Green Light
31 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Autonomous cars are soon to become even more commonplace in the United Sates, of America. Californian legislators have sent a bill to the governor’s desk that should push forward the development of autonomous cars in the Golden State.
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Toyota Shocks Ad World With Topless Model [VIDEO]
24 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You might remember model, Andrej Pejic, who is rather famous for his hot female-like appearance. Well, Andrej might have some new competition – 19-year-old Stav Strashko, who stars in a new ad for Toyota.
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The Horrifying Moment A Rally Car Careened Off A Mountain And Rolled 14 Times [VIDEO]
16 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It may not always get the mainstream attention that it deserves, but Rally driving is a serious sport with serious risks. This was once again demonstrated last week when an Evo race car took a turn for the worse and flew off of a mountain onto a steep rocky slope.
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Prince of Monaco’s Stunning Car Collection Up For Auction [GALLERY]
26 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Today Prince Albert II will auction off 38 vehicles collected by his father – the late Prince Rainer III. The cars range from immaculate examples of a 1953 Cadillac and a 1950’s Bentley S1 through to a number of bargain basement models such as a Fiat 500 and a Citroen estate.
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Frenchman Stranded In Desert Turns His Car Into A Motorcycle [PICS]
06 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Lookout, we have a badass on out hands. Although the story is only emerging now, in 1993 Emile Leray’s Citroen down broke in a Moroccan desert miles from nearest village. Unfazed, he took the car apart and turned it into a motorbike.
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Ciao Sergio, And Thanks For All The Cars
06 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Up until yesterday, car makers used to be a bunch of greasy, oil-stained, mechanically minded individuals. Naff things like pencils were a bit of a poke, which in turn created a market for design geniuses and those with suspiciously thin-rimmed spectacles. Design work was, and is, still left to people like Sergio Pininfarina.
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Google Maps Introduces Real-Time Traffic Overlay To South Africa
20 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As Google becomes more and more a part of our daily life, they add features that are actually very useful. Like real-time traffic overlay on Google Maps for instance. Seven new countries, including South Africa, received access to the new service as of today. Click through to find out how it works.
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Physicist Uses Mathematics To Get Out Of Traffic Fine, Publishes Findings
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
UC San Diego physicist, Dmitri Krioukov got ticketed recently for running a stop sign – which isn’t unusual. What is unusual is the fact that, rather than pay the $400 fine and move on, Krioukov wrote a mathematical paper proving that the cop who ticketed him had a “perception of reality that did not properly reflect reality.”
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The Killer Commute – The Effects Of Your Daily Commute On Your Body And Mind
13 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Let’s be honest, no one enjoys commuting. It’s a frustrating, time-consuming, anger-inducing practice which has become an unfortunate fact of life for some. Even more concerning however, are the actual negative effects it has on your physical and mental health. Click through for an insightful infographic breakdown.
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Microsoft Kits Out A ’67 Mustang With Windows 8 & X-Box Kinect [VIDEO]
05 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Microsoft wants you to notice them too – which is why they’ve rolled out a Ford Mustang fitted with Kinect sensors, two Windows 8 tablets, projection screens, and a couple of other neat toys as a proof-of concept to inspire developers to build applications and automotive technologies with Microsoft in mind.
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Qatar’s Police Force Rolls Out A Fleet Of Porsches [VIDEO]
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, it must be nice having the second-highest GDP per capita in the world, like Qatar does. That way you can afford to kit out your police force with an entire fleet of deeply sexy Porsche and VW vehicles, which you can send out on parades whenever you feel like it. Like in this insane video.
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Mercedes Drives Face-First Into Johannesburg Highway [PICS]
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Yesterday a Mercedes was driven face-first into Johannesburg’s Malibongwe Drive. The driver also managed to take a BMW from a nearby dealership down the embankment with her! In a radio interview she said that while visiting the dealership to trade in her car, her “high heel got stuck while in reverse”. The disastrous result can be seen after the jump.
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Volvo Introduces Pedestrian Airbag [VIDEO]
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this is new, and sort of neat. For the new V40, Volvo is introducing the world’s first pedestrian airbag system, designed to reduce the severity of pedestrian injuries in a car-pedestrian collision. Alternatively it could double as a sweet new inflatable mattress on the hood of your car.
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Formula Car Driving On Ice At Nürburgring – Going Viral [VIDEO]
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Formula One race cars are intended for many things – being awesome, making loud noises, giving Germans something to do. Driving on snow is not one of them. In spite of that, Andy Gülden equipped one with snow tires and drove it around the snow-covered race tracks of the famously challenging Nürburgring in Germany. Madness.
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Siri To Power Mercedes-Benz Car Systems
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hey, future. Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans yesterday to use Siri – the virtual assistant exclusive to the iPhone 4S – to power its new A-class electronics system, called “Drive Kit Plus,” which will allow drivers to access their iPhone apps using voice commands. In case you ever feel like updating your Twitter status while driving something sexy.
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Nevada Legalizes Self-Driving Cars
20 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hello, future! Nevada has become the first state to legalize self-driving cars, which are apparently pretty easy to get hold of in Nevada. Granted, the cars must have two humans inside, and be insured for around $1 million, but let’s focus on the part where people are allowed to have self-driving cars now.
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Is This South Africa’s Shittiest Car? [PICS]
17 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You might think you’ve seen some nasty old relics cruising the nation’s roads, but you haven’t seen anything quite like this! Kimberley traffic officials impounded this 1976 Toyota Hilux bakkie earlier in the week. Except, its owners have made some… er, modifications over the years. Check out the photo gallery after the jump!
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Gauteng In Pre-Petrol Price Hike Panic?
31 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The South African Fuel Retailers Association is trying to pre-empt petrol price hike panic in Gauteng just hours before the price of go-go juice flies up a massive 34c around the country.
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Bernie Ecclestone Parking Cars In Mayfair
12 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
I was grabbing a couple poached eggs at Cecconi’s with The Big H just off Saville Row – Mayfair – this weekend. We spotted a new white Range Rover Evoque struggling to park opposite us. The driver was a Brazilian woman and, after a few attempts, her companion jumped out to help direct her. What […]
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