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It never ceases to amaze me how quickly times flies when you’re having fun. Never before has this been as true as during the time I spent with the Volvo V60 D5 Geartronic Essential. Having taken delivery towards the end of November last year, it’s been a two and a half month long journey that [...]

It’s been a busy, festive week since my last update on the Volvo V60 D5 Geartronic, a week that saw the V60 covering more mileage than in the weeks leading up to Christmas. It’s still difficult to find major faults with the car and I’m continually impressed with its versatility and practicality. In the past [...]

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 [...]

In the past few years, you may have noticed that Volvo – as a brand – has been very busy reinventing themselves, a large scale renovation that, in the greater scheme of things, has very little to do with the cars they sell. For while Volvo has been rolling out new and extensively refreshed model [...]

Never has the adage that times flies when you’re having fun been truer than over the past six weeks. It feels like just the other day that I collected the first car of our new Owning It segment, a Vermillion Red BMW 320d EfficientDynamics, from BMW South Africa. Today, as I’m writing this final installment [...]

My time with BMW’s 320d EfficientDynamics is slowly but surely coming to an end, with only four days remaining before I have to return it to BMW South Africa. While I was certainly not expecting any major hiccups during the short time I could call it mine, I am still happy to report that the [...]

Another week with our BMW 320d has passed, although I spent a little less time driving it – after all, our usual testing schedule is continuing as well. That said, I finally managed to finish its first tank of diesel, and I am still a bit disappointed with the car’s fuel consumption over all. I [...]

As motoring journalists, we are able to provide good impressions of any vehicle after a standard one-week test, but it has been shown time and again that perceptions and impressions change when exposed to a vehicle over an extended period. As such, DieselDrive introduces Owning It, a new series of features in which we test [...]