TRAVEL Motoring It was 2023, and in Queenstown, New Zealand, we were sailing Ford's Next-Gen Everests and Rangers through the snow on the Southern Alps, hopping into helicopters, rock-crawling through Otago's mountainous regions and winding down old trade routes from what was once a gold rush town. It was the closest I'd been as a South African to a once-in-a-lifetime trip.
Fast-forward one year, and it is Ford South Africa's turn to host the IMG group, comprising New Zealand, Australia, Asia, South Africa, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, India, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. South Africa is not easy to get to from most of those places, let alone travel to a luxury game reserve and one of the highest neaks of the Northern Drakensbere Mountains.…