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Drive Review: GT 63 S 4dr is a family-friendly missile

Under the skin of the new Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S 4-door there’s a lot going on as the transition from AMG GT sports car to GT family car proves to be anything but straightforward repurposing. But if...

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News: Jag’s new designer has a crack at the F-Type

Oh, how we don’t envy Jaguar’s new design director Julian Thomson. Improving anything styled by Ian Callum would be difficult at the best of times, but the F-Type – in coupé form especially – was...

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Jeep Trackhawk (2020) is the family’s muscle car

Mr John Force your Jeep has arrived It’s called the Trackhawk and if the driver reference went over your head then perhaps drag racing, and by proxy, the Jeep Trackhawk is not for you. Instead, you...

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First Drive: Is the 2020 Lexus RC F the gentleman’s sportscar?

The Japanese sportscar. Instead of flying all the way to Munich, wouldn’t it have been easier for Toyota to peek over the wall at Lexus where the RC F was being developed and tested? As it turns out,...

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Drive Review: Jaguar F-Pace SVR (2019) better late than never

What is an old Jaguar F-Pace doing in TopGear? Well, if you press your ear very close to this screen the venomous hiss and crackle of a supercharged 5.0-litre V8 might still be trailing in our wake –...

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This is what a Ford Mustang Raptor looks like

Now that Ford has applied the Raptor treatment to both its F-150 and Ranger pick-ups, it seems fair game to assume it might start Raptoring everything. Well, it does if you’re genius online render...

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Drive Review: Bentley Bentayga (2018) V8 petrol

Fresh off the back of launching its first new veneer in five years (wood hunting is obviously a time-consuming business), Bentley has also dropped an all-new petrol bi-turbo V8 into the Bentayga. In...

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This gorgeous bakkie is Americana rebooted

You may be familiar with the work of Jim and Mike Ring. They’re the co-founders of Ringbrothers, the Wisconsin-based firm famed for putting silly power and carbon fibre bodies on America’s finest and...

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More tech but new Ford Mustang is still a Pony Car

This is still unmistakably still a Ford Mustang. The hugely successful ‘Pony Car’ has been given a round of updates for the 2018 model year, which sees more power from the big V8 engine, a new...

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Land Rover reveals Defender Works V8

We suspect that during the course of this story, you might experience strange, perhaps even supernatural forces befuddling your senses. Rest assured: this proves that you are still human. Ladies and...

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Liberty for the Lexus LC500

In a world of Kei cars, Liberty Walk is the outlier of Japanese car culture. They’re specialists in making the most outrageous cars available even crazier with mad bodykits, wheels and all manner of...

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Interview: Dakar Hilux V8 mastermind

Glyn Hall is a world renowned racing engineer, who happens to build the world’s best racing bakkies from a workshop in Gauteng. Although his formative years were spent in Wales, Glyn has been in South...

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Review: AMG deal tweaks character of Aston Martin DB11

A new Aston Martin DB11? A new version of the DB11, yes. It uses a V8 engine, effectively making it a cheaper, downsized, more environmentally friendly alternative to the full-fat V12. Its engine is...

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TVR returns to old-school recipe with the new Griffith

Who knows what the car-shunning Millennials make of it all, but for an entire generation of sports car fans, TVR equates to unruly high performance, perilous sideways excursions and, if we’re...

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Explosive Jekyll and Hyde character from Cherokee Trackhawk

What is this? The Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk might not give many visual cues – the non-functional quad-tipped exhausts and new wheel design being the only non-verbal hints  – that this Grand...

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Finally, a Raptor Ranger for SA

For many South Africans, it is a travesty that you cannot buy a Ford F-150 Raptor in South Africa with its Baja-racing proven Fox suspension, 335kW engine and nine gears, it is the ultimate road-legal...

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Driving Jaguar’s baby F-Type 2.0-litre as new 718 rival

Is this a new Jaguar F-Type? Sort of. The F-Type has had a mid-life update, and with it comes a new engine. Joining the raft of V6s and V8s you can currently buy is a 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol...

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Dakar shortened

Think you’ve had a devastatingly hot summer experience these past few weeks of vacation? Think again. The race which has built and branded itself on desert navigation and endurance, implying a lot of...

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The real Dakar has begun

After the WRC-type first few stages and some extreme altitude trucking roads in Bolivia, stage 8 was billed as the first ‘proper’ Dakar special of the 2016 event – and so it was. Although only 393km...

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The Youabian Puma is for sale. For, um, a lot…

Remember the Youabian Puma? Of course you do – its inimitable form was forever ingrained in our minds when it was first revealed at the LA Motor Show in 2013. Reports it blinded several showgoers...

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