DieselDrive Magazine

Volkswagen’s Jetta has come a long way in its 32 years of existence, starting out in 1979 as nothing more than a sedan version of the legendary Golf 1. Following in the footsteps of other Volkswagen products by being named after a prominent wind, in this case the Atlantic jet stream, the Jetta’s positioning as [...]

The letter “R” has quite serious connotations in our little motoring world. Used to denote extra performance or exclusivity, more and more cars receive “R” nomenclature to separate them from their lesser siblings. Think about cars like the Honda Civic Type-R, Jaguar’s XFR and XKR models and even Nissan’s insane Juke-R Concept. It’s no surprise [...]

It boggles my mind that Volkswagen, one of the South Africa’s leading automobile manufacturers, is not achieving major successes with all the cars they offer. Surely if you can create two, three or even four bestsellers, the rest of your model range can’t be that horrible? For Volkswagen in SA, Polo, Golf and Jetta, even [...]

Unless you were in a coma over the past few months, you would have noticed that there is a race on between two of our most popular fast food outlets to see who can produce the burger with the biggest buns, the most cheese and, most important of all, the biggest beef patties. While it’s [...]