DieselDrive Magazine

When MINI first released images of its Coupe Concept back in 2009, I couldn’t stop drooling. Here was one of my favourite cars – the MINI Cooper S – with a squashed roof, two seats and an all new level of awesome. I remember plastering my computer and cellphone with photos of the car and [...]

This time last year we were all wearing football jerseys to work and vuvuzelas became as common as a road block in Fourways on a Friday night. But besides the World Cup fever and the sheer pride I had in being a South African during that glorious month, one thing stood out for me as [...]

To get a taste of full-electric motoring, Christo van Gemert went to Munich to have a spin in BMW’s battery-powered Mini E. It’s easy to assume that electric cars are totally silent. After all, we’re so overwhelmed with mechanical noise in our petrol and diesel machines that it’s hard to imagine the noise coming from [...]