Inhaltsverzeichnis für October 2022 in CAR

As the Freddie Mercury song goes: “Time waits for no one.” I can hardly believe six months have passed since the CAR reins were handed over to me. I have travelled more in the last while than I ever have before in my life. There is also the long list of fresh vehicles that have passed through our garage door for testing. I genuinely wish there was more time in the day to fit it all in. It remains a privilege to bring you this magazine. The work we do each month as part of the print cycle involves an entire team and I would like to thank all of those who work tirelessly behind the scenes. Scribes, creative and production staff; it really does take a village. The past…

PORSCHE CAYENNE DROP-TOP Twenty years ago, Porsche was trying to figure out whether or not a convertible version of its Cayenne SUV would be a viable product, so it built one. Legend has it there were two factions that couldn’t decide on what the rear end was supposed to look like, and that’s why this rolling prototype had a famous asymmetrical backside. One group of designers thought it should have the more conventional low-set taillights of the Carrera GT supercar, while the opposing set believed in a new-age rear end with taillights high up on the beltline. This was the look that eventually cracked the nod when the Panamera made its debut. While the Cayenne convertible never made production, the company would use this prototype to test several technologically advanced…

IamDamianAdams The original Land Rover Range Rover was the first-ever luxury off-road SUV when it began life 52 years ago. This new model aims to continue to raise the bar in terms of comfort and performance for true 4x4s. The BMW X7, Mercedes-Benz GLS and Lexus LX are just a few of its rivals. The top of the Range Rover market is also targeted by the Aston Martin DBX, Bentley Bentayga and Rolls-Royce Cullinan. Facing stiff competition on all sides, the Rangie doesn’t follow the crowd and attempts to do it all with power, luxury, off-road capability and an elegant new design both inside and out. DESIGN DETAILS It may not look like it up front, but the fifth generation Range Rover is completely new. It adopts the brand’s well-known…

IamDamianAdams WHERE WE DROVE IT *Claimed figures Price: R1 154 900 Engine: 5,0-litre, V8 petrol Transmission: 10-speed automatic Power: 330 kW @7 000 r/min Torque: 529 N.m @4 600 r/min 0–100 km/h: 4,5 seconds* Top speed: 250 km/h Fuel consumption: 12,3 L/100 km* CO2 : 279 g/km Rivals: Audi S5 Coupé, BMW 440i, Mercedes-AMG C43 Coupé immensely entertaining V8 soundtrack, looks demand attention a muscle car, not a sportscar, it feels heavy The current iteration of the Mustang GT Fastback has demonstrated a pleasantly purposeful look since it arrived on our shores back in late 2015. Its aesthetic was tastefully refined when it was updated in 2019. The California Special package ups the ante and guarantees that the Mustang will continue to draw the attention of curious onlookers even after bring…

Deonskidmark Deon Joubert is no stranger to CAR readers. He has worked with the team over the years as the go-to track-test driver. As with most professional racing drivers, Deon started karting at a young age and racing and cars seem to be a part of his DNA. I don’t even know if I like cars! That may sound strange, given my line of work, but my relationship with cars has less to do with me discovering a liking for them and more about motoring simply being a part of my life since I was a child. You could say I grew up at Killarney in Cape Town. I’ve watched it transform from a basic club in the 1970s to a circuit with top-class facilities. My dad, Denis, was chairman…

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GarethD_CARmag First production car with cylinder deactivation Cadillac Eldorado 1981 When posing the question of which technological steps to take to improve vehicle fuel economy, the answers tend to fall on the side of engine downsizing. Even America – traditionally seen by motorists as the land of the free and the home of cheap petrol and burbling V8s – is not immune to the pressures of rising fuel prices and tightening emission legislation. General Motors decided to embark on a series of fuel-saving measures for its products. The first step was to downsize its 7,0-litre V8 unit to 6,0 litres, but the results were not convincing. The option of retooling its engine plants to accommodate even smaller displacements was considered economically unviable, so GM concluded that the next best alternative…

Kyle_Fortune WHERE WE DROVE IT *Claimed figures Price: N/A Engine: 6,5-litre, 12-cyl, petrol Transmission: 7-speed automatic Power: 574 kW @8 500 r/min Torque: 720 N.m @6 750 r/min 0–100 km/h: 2,8 seconds Top speed: 355 km/h Rivals: Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, Bentley Continental GT Speed, McLaren 720S, Ferrari 296 GTB all the best bits from 11 years as the go-to Italian supercar saying goodbye to the naturally aspirated Aventador More than an hour of negotiating the busy urban roads of Italy’s industrial heartland left me with a nagging fear our drive in what will be the last Aventador Lamborghini builds would be fruitless. Rain was sheeting down and as I peered at the sky, it didn’t look like it was about to change anytime soon. Photographer Wolfango, ahead in a…

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ianmclaren76 Petridish_Mooks 2022 AUDI E-TRON GT QUATTRO Powerplant: permanent magnet synchronous electric motors, front & rear; 83,7 kWh battery Transmission: 2-speed automatic Power: 350 kW Torque: 630 N.m 0–100 km/h: 4,1 seconds Top speed: 245 km/h 1986 AUDI UR-QUATTRO Engine: 2,1 litre, inline five-cylinder, turbocharged and intercooled Transmission: 5-speed manual, permanent AWD Power: 147 kW @5 500 r/min Torque: 285 N.m @3 500 r/min 0–100 km/h: 7,1 seconds Top speed: 222 km/h As a motoring enthusiast, what’s your go-to on-screen car moment? While a timely revisit to the car chase scenes in Ronin nears the top of my list, I have been known to skirt a deadline, typing the name “Walter Röhrl” into my YouTube search bar. Questionable accompanying soundtrack aside, the video that tops the search list reveals one of…

MERCEDES-BENZ C220D AMG LINE Driver: Peter Frost 5 320 km 5,90 L/100 km Once again, the Northern Cape sojourn has been called off. Reports from that most beautiful of provinces suggest an Orange River time-out would freeze the chilblains off a polar bear right now, so instead, Merc and owner stayed home with Horlicks and a dog blanket. Mid-month it was seconded as a removals van, a role at which it turned out to be surprisingly good. The back seats fold down, turning a very conventional three-box sedan into something that astonished the neighbours. Hat stand? No problem. Standard lamp? In it went. Pot plant? Not an issue, except pot plants come with soil … one Triassic taxi later and the rear footwell resembled a child’s sandpit. Which highlighted another…

BraamPeens1 Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve and Max Verstappen are all examples of drivers who became world champions despite career-boosting surnames as offspring of F1 pilots. Conspicuous by their absence from this fraternity of famously fast families is perhaps one of the most famous motor racing names of all: Andretti. A multi-discipline American institution that has won everything it has participated in and deserving of its own dollar bill, its patriarch Mario was crowned F1 world champion in 1978. However, his determination to see another Andretti in F1 did nothing but curse his son, Michael. Fifteen years later, he tried to follow in his father’s footsteps with a foray into the sport best forgotten. Whether circumstance, unfortunate timing, piranha-club politics or a hyper-toxic conflation of all three, it was not helped…

PeterPalm12 Visit car Magazine at carmag.co.za/cars-for-sale To find the latest New & used cars for sale Model: Mazda 323 GLC 1400 0–100 km/h: 16,4 sec Top speed: 149 km/h Fuel index: 6,90 L/100 km (at 100 km/h) Price: R4 835 CAR test: March 1979 and 8 others from 1977 to 1981 As we noted in our “East meets West” feature on the Fiat 128 versus the Datsun 1200, a similar situation presents when considering the Mazda 323. The Japanese tend to favour the reliability of proven technology over the latest developments in technical design. In December 1977, CAR conducted a comparative test between the Renault 5 and the Mazda 323, pitting the front-wheel-drive French hatchback against this rear-wheel-drive Japanese rival. The 323 became extremely popular and, owing to the phonetic similarity…

BraamPeens1 Ground-effect aerodynamics may have returned to this year’s F1 cars, but the Lotus 78 that raced in 1978 and 1979 pioneered the dark art of sealed-underbody airflow. At 33 of the fixtures in which the innovative Lotus was entered, it powered to seven wins, 11 podiums, nine pole positions and seven fastest laps. It is remembered for earning the once-mighty Lotus’ final constructor’s title and netting Mario Andretti the 1978 drivers’ crown as the most recent American F1 champion. As early as the 1960s, engineers at Chaparral Cars investigated the effect of an airstream channelled through a gradually widening tube, creating suction as the air accelerated. Later that decade, the fearsome Can-Am racers were the first of their kind to rely on negative underbody air pressure for the purpose…

KyleSpliceZA HIGHLIGHTS ■ Longer wheelbase ■ Shorter front overhang ■ Shorter rear overhang ■ Electric roller cover ■ Multiple cargo management options, like lockable toolboxes and bike brackets ■ Optional Harman Kardon sound system ■ Optional 21-inch alloy wheels ■ 10- or 12-inch infotainment screen Since its 2010 launch, the Volkswagen Amarok has been one of the local pickup market’s favourite sons. Twelve years later, the competition’s moved on slightly and we’d be fibbing if we said we weren’t looking forward to the new Amarok. Introduced in a global reveal on YouTube, the Amarok’s hallmarks were glossed over by Lars Krause, member of the board, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Sales and Marketing, and Albert Kirzinger, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Head of Design. BIGGER AND BOLDER The new Amarok is 100 mm longer…

The Bavarian brand has come under fire in recent weeks following the introduction of a subscription plan for certain features, namely heated seats and steering wheels, adaptive cruise control and automatic high beams. Here’s the gist of it. Niceties like heated seats and steering wheels will be used only at certain times of the year. For the rest of the time, you probably won’t even think about activating those items. These features will form part of the company’s ConnectedDrive Upgrades, which BMW believes could be a major alternative revenue stream. The brand forecasts its digital offerings may bring in as much as R83 billion during this decade. Much of the heated online debate is that there was some confusion regarding the introduction of the subscription services for the heated seats…

APL McLaren Hyspeed ■ R11 421 Athletic Propulsion Labs (APL) and McLaren have collaborated on footwear as bold and flamboyant as the firm’s supercars and hypercars. The APL/McLaren Hyspeed shoes adopt the automaker’s performance-oriented design language. Drawing inspiration from the marque’s many illustrious nameplates, the Hyspeed is a luxurious example of athletic footwear. The silhouette is a completely new design developed by APL, composed of three layers. At the very bottom are APL FutureFoam pads located in the front and rear of the shoe. Above is a carbon-fibre plate stretching across the length of the shoe, topped by a nitrogen-infused midsole. The outsole’s design references the tread pattern found on many of McLaren’s four-wheelers. Geared towards performance, the design is based on APL’s "Load ’N Launch" technology, claimed to increase…

KyleSpliceZA WHERE WE DROVE IT *Claimed figures Price: R469 900 Engine: 1,5-litre, 4-cyl petrol Transmission: CVT Power: 84 kW @6 300 r/min Torque: 144 N.m @4 500 r/min Top speed: 170 km/h Fuel consumption: 6,3 L/100 km* CO2 : 143 g/km* Rivals: Ford EcoSport, Renault Duster, Volkswagen T-Cross striking frontal design interior hue the new face might be a bit too soon for recent buyers When the second generation Creta was introduced in 2020, it arrived with substantial updates. Interestingly, Hyundai has chosen to facelift the car just 24 months later. Traditionally, product life cycles are about a decade. Throw in a mid-cycle facelift and you’re looking at maybe four or five years between updates, or at least a visual revamp, but that philosophy has apparently been thrown out the window…

GarethD_CARmag WHERE WE DROVE IT *Claimed figures Price: R359 995 Engine: 1,0-litre, inline-four turbopetrol Transmission: 7-speed, dual-clutch automatic Power: 88 kW @6 000 r/min Torque: 172 N.m @1 500–4 000 r/min 0–100 km/h: 11,3 seconds* Top speed: 185 km/h Fuel consumption: 6,0 L/100 km* CO2 : 137 g/km Rivals: Ford EcoSport, Hyundai Venue, Volkswagen T-Cross, Toyota Urban Cruiser/Suzuki Vitara Brezza turbocharged engine adds some welcome urge it’s up against some tough and well-established rivals Since its introduction to the SA market just over a year ago, the Kia Sonet’s combination of rakish good looks, solid build and pleasing road manners has garnered it a great deal of praise from the motoring public. But while its talent spread is broad, the turbopetrol-shaped hole in the Sonet line-up has been something of a…

RyanOConnorZA Award-winning radio and TV presenter Ryan O’Connor – or ROC as he is affectionately known – has dominated the airwaves for 21 years on some of the Mother City’s best-loved stations. Catch him on the HEART FM Drive, weekdays, 3 to 6 pm. Who thought we’d see the day when the Lamborghini Countach made a return to the streets, albeit the very expensive streets of a select few? The new Countach is limited to only 112 units, three decades after the last one stunned the automotive world. That said, this reimagination of the legend is more of a homage than an “actual” Countach. This one is essentially an Aventador dolled up to look like an updated Countach and should drive better and quicker, but I fear that’s where it…

Price: R3 550 000 0–100 km/h: 3,3 seconds Top speed: 300 km/h Power: 471 kW Torque: 850 Nm CAR fuel index: 14,28 L/100 km CO2 : 271 g/km Devastatingly alacritous with physics challenging dexterity; intoxicatingly alluring and head-scratchingly absurd all at the same time. A hyper-SUV for the oligarchs of speedBraam Peens To suggest the Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT’s DNA string reads like a bowl of spaghetti would be a bit of an understatement. In VW Group’s arsenal of SUVs of mass destruction, it’s ruder than its identical twin the Audi RSQ8, yet fractionally less frenetic than the Lamborghini Urus. But here’s the important thing … irrespective of its boss-level status, the Cayenne Turbo GT isn’t a real Porsche GT. Although it shares the insignia reserved for the overachievers atop the…

GarethD_CARmag A NEW LEASE ON LIFE FOR OLD E-TRON BATTERIES The growing adoption of electric vehicles brings with it the question of what to do with all of those battery packs once they’ve reached the end of their serviceable lives. It’s one Audi is looking to answer with the help of Germano-Indian tech start-up Nunam, which envisages using second-life e-tron EV batteries to power shorter-range mobility solutions such as rickshaws. “The old batteries are still extremely powerful,” says Nunam cofounder Prodip Chatterjee. “For vehicles with lower range and power requirements, as well as lower overall weight, they are extremely promising.” Electric rickshaws aren’t completely alien to the subcontinent, but these use lead-acid batteries and are charged via a coal-powered grid. Nunam’s solution will instead use a decentralised system of solar…

PeterPalm12 Visit car Magazine at carmag.co.za/cars-for-sale To find the latest New and used cars for sale CASE STUDY: SUV SUPER SIPPERS UNDER R200 000 The terms “SUV” and “fuel-efficient” are seldom synonymous, but this compact lifestyle quartet is surprisingly parsimonious at the fuel pumps Renault Duster 1,5 dCi 5 seats, 296/1 128 litres 6 airbags, ABS, EBD, stability control R 8 120 October 2013 0–100 km/h: 13,11 seconds Top speed: 158 km/h Power: 80 kW Torque: 240 N.m Fuel consumption: 6,72 L/100 km Arriving in South Africa in late 2013, this was the first soft-roader from Renault. While this seemingly contradictory proviso sounded like a recipe for a compromised product, the Duster actually proved a massive success. The SUV styling is there, but there’s substance to back it up, including 205…

Notes • The PRICES shown are the latest available at the time of going to press. Our deadline occurred on 15 August 2022. Readers should check with a dealer before making a decision. • The HP payment calculations are based on a 10% deposit, current prime interest rate @8.25% and a 60-month repayment period with no residual at the end. • Under ENGINE we list the number of cylinders and the cubic capacity in cm3. Here, V = V-shaped engine layout; H = horizontally-opposed engine layout; The absence of an initial symbol implies an in-line engine layout. • FUEL SUPPLY abbreviations are P = petrol-engined; D = diesel-engined; T = turbocharged, a compressor driven by exhaust gases; S = supercharged, a compressor driven by the engine; P/H = petrol-hybrid and E…