With QWERTY comes compromise The phoenix metaphor is overused in a tech world where brand recycling has become commonplace, so let’s just call the BlackBerry KEYone a QWERTY comeback. You’d be forgiven for dismissing it for not one but two reasons, after all. First, for packing a physical keyboard in an age where more flexible, programable touchscreen…
It’s bigger in power and size You’d be forgiven for assuming the most powerful production MINI to-date would be a Coupe, or maybe even a Convertible, but it’s not. Witness instead this, the 2018 MINI John Cooper Works Countryman, a performance upgrade to the automaker’s most practical car. As well as seating for five and a healthy…
It was only a matter of time before Land Rover got around to dusting its most popular family SUV with the same magic that has dramatically overhauled the brand’s Range Rover line-up of luxury people movers. The 2017 Land Rover Discovery breaks with the past by abandoning its bakkie-like platform for a more modern design,…
Joburgers looking for an escape from the city that never sleeps can find it by jaunting as far west as a drive or train ride can take you, to the Free State, Bothaville. The attitude around the almost deserted town is antithetical to that of the major metropolis that visitors leave behind — do things…
What is there to say about a car like the 2017 Rolls-Royce Dawn, an ultra-luxury convertible whose price tag can easily approach tens of millions in rands? It’s certainly easy to run out of superlatives when discussing the Dawn (which replaces the Phantom Drophead Coupe as the ragtop of choice in the British brand’s showroom),…
