DieselDrive Magazine

In January of this year I had the opportunity to travel to South Korea with Hyundai South Africa to experience “the world of Hyundai”. It was not a product launch and no cars were driven, but it was one of the most insightful trips I have ever undertaken, not only giving me a new understanding [...]

If choosing the SA COTY was as easy as simply ticking the box next to the car you like the most, we’d have some very interesting results and I wouldn’t be spending so much time contemplating each of the finalists in preparation of the two days of testing that lies ahead for the 2012 COTY [...]

Times flies when you’re having fun, so it’s no wonder that Peugeot’s ten-year anniversary in South Africa almost went by unnoticed. Yet despite low sales volumes and a less than stellar image in many a former Peugeot owner’s mind, the French manufacturer has done a remarkable job over the last ten years. Upon its return [...]

In the first instalment of my ownership experience with Volvo’s V60 D5 Geartronic Essential, I briefly touched on how Volvo has in recent years spent a lot of time, money and energy to reinvent themselves, in the process not only modernising all its various enterprises, but also going back to its roots, identifying and focusing [...]

Sadly, it’s not often that DieselDrive reports on matters relating to road safety and good driving practices in general, but at this time of year, when our roads generally get busier and the accident figures and death tolls rise higher than usual, it’s impossible to not think about our behaviour behind the steering wheel. I [...]

I love a road trip. In fact I just love driving, hence I do the job that I do. But a good, long, interesting road trip is something I will drop almost anything for and, when you live in a country as beautiful as ours, it doesn’t really matter where you go because you are [...]

I wrote a while back about how, even with an entry level, seven-year old BMW 320d, I have always received stellar service at the BMW branches I have visited, whether to pick up a small plastic part, book a service or gorge myself on the free Illy premium roast coffee – worth owning the brand [...]

If you’ve ever wondered why, for one weekend in June every year, petrol heads the world over have one thing on their minds, then this 101 is for you. Le Mans (pronounced with a silent “n” and “s”) is, in short, the motorsport world’s most prized event and one that no petrol head should ever [...]

People change; I get that. Over the years we get weathered and beaten into the true forms of our current self – a process taking decades, turning us into outcrops of smoothed boulders on the windy Karoo, or jagged, sea-swept personalities under the pier of life. As a constant, slow transformation and cementing of our [...]

SIGH NO MORE – MUMFORD & SONS Marketed & Distributed by Universal Music SA I can’t recall when last there’s been such hype about a band that started not within the ranks of a record company’s PR department, but through social media. This is the case with Mumford & Sons, a band I knew of [...]