Carcol Executive Auto rocks at the Q8 9-Hour Retro
After wrecking my poor Ford Mustang Fastback during the last round of the Midas Historic Tour, I was left carless for this year’s Q8 9-Hour Retro at Kyalami. Fortunately The Mayor of Greenside – Colin...
View Article$4M supercar crash takes out eight Ferraris
TOKYO — Speeding has been blamed Monday as the likely cause of what is believed to be Japan’s most expensive ever road accident after up to $4-million-worth of supercars ended up in a crumpled heap on...
View ArticlePeugeot wave goodbye to the 24-Hours of Le Mans
Peugeot yesterday announced that they will no longer be competing in the 24-Hours of Le Mans. “This decision has been taken in the context of a difficult economic environment in Europe,” the French...
View ArticleAbarth 500 finally ready to sting South Africa
The Abarth 500 has arrived to give the MINI Cooper a run for its money What is it? The hot-hatch we have all been waiting for, that’s what. Don’t get me wrong, the regular Fiat 500 is a great little...
View ArticleAll smoke no fire: The Peugeot RCZ HDI
In petrol guise the Peugeot RCZ is a great drive. So does a diesel version still cut the same mustard? The Wheel Deal investigates… For many years it seemed that Peugeot was, like Nine Inch Nails’...
View ArticleNew Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet arrives in SA
After a ten-year hiatus the topless Golf has returned to cruise the world’s boulevards. The Wheel Deal hit Cape Town to get his pose on What is it? It’s the Golf VI we know and love just minus the...
View ArticleMercedes-Benz hasn’t signed new Formula 1 deal
Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone tells a German magazine he has met with Daimler AG CEO Dieter Zetsche to discuss the new Concorde Agreement, which the Mercedes team still has not agreed to sign....
View ArticleObituary: Remembering the great Sergio Pininfarina
Connoisseurs of car style are mourning the Italian design master, writes The Wheel Deal So there I was, about five or six if my memory serves me correctly, walking down Main Road Sea Point with my...
View ArticleCannonball Run Africa 2012: A visit from Spider-Man
This morning us Cannonballers awoke to a rather puzzling discovery: this white Porsche 911 trapped in an intricate web of sticky plastic. Glistening in the winter sun, it had also been wound around a...
View ArticleCannonball Run Africa 2012: Jag XKR-S track attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qluw9E_nU0M GoPro footage taken during yesterday’s Cannonball Run Africa track challenge at Zwartkops Raceway. I managed to crack a 1:13.40 hot-lap in our Jaguar XKR-S....
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