The 2026 Dakar Rally is sliding into its final few days of competition. 2026 Dakar Stage 11 was contested over 346 km of timed special that promised to be extremely quick. The stage started Bisha and ended in Al Henakiyah. Read our Dakar 101 article here if you are still learning about the race. With […]
The 2026 Dakar Rally is heading for a thrilling conclusion with just a few days left to race. 2026 Dakar Stage 10 was contested over 420 km. The stage started at the overnight stop in the desert and ended near Bisha. Read our Dakar 101 article here if you are still learning about the race. […]
The 2026 Dakar Rally is more than 2/3rds complete. 2026 Dakar Stage 9 was contested over 410 km. The stage took place in a loop that started in Wadi ad-Dawasir and ended in the desert. Read our Dakar 101 article here if you are still learning about the race. It was the start of the […]
The 2026 Dakar Rally took its traditional, mid-race break after week of racing. Six stages were completed leading up to the rest day, which took place in the capital city of Riyadh. Crews had completed 2 297 km of special, just under half of the 2026 race total, before starting today. Read our Dakar 101 […]
The 2026 Dakar Rally is at the end of the first week of action. 2026 Dakar Stage 5 was another dominated by Ford. Henk Lategan maintained the lead of the overall rally (as you can read here) going into stage six. Read our Dakar 101 article here if you are still learning about the race. […]
The 2026 Dakar Rally is deep into the first week of action. 2026 Dakar Stage 4 brought with it a new stage winner and overall race leader in the shape of Henk Latengan (as you can read here). Read our Dakar 101 article here if you are still learning about the race. 2026 Dakar Stage […]
The 2026 Dakar Rally has been a complete coin toss from the word go. 2026 Dakar Stage 3 was dominated by Ford (as you can read here). Read our Dakar 101 article here if you are still learning about the race. 2026 Dakar Stage 4 was a marathon. That means teams would race into the […]
The 2026 Dakar Rally is now in full swing. 2026 Dakar Stage 2 was totally dominated by Toyota (as you can read here). Read our Dakar 101 article here if you are still learning about the race. 2026 Dakar Stage 3 saw the rally moving north for a 421 km timed section that started in […]
The 2026 Dakar Rally is currently underway with stage one taking place on Sunday. 2026 Dakar Stage 1 had a surprise winner in the shape of the X-Raid Mini of Guillame de Mevius (as you can read here). Read our ‘Dakar 101‘ article here if you are still learning about the race. 2026 Dakar Stage […]
A brand new model was added the local Lexus line-up earlier this year. We got our hands on the Lexus GX550 SE to learn more about this luxury SUV. If you mention the name ‘Lexus’ most people will probably conjure up a luxury sedan as a representation of the brand. It was this segment that […]
We were recently presented with an opportunity to drive the recently refreshed Isuzu M-UX 3,0 Ddi LSE 4×4 AT. This was our first encounter with the rugged family SUV and we walked away with mixed feelings. We share seven things we learned during our review period. SUVs are all the rage in this day and […]
Hypercar manufacturer Koenigsegg seems to enjoy setting records. Now Koenigsegg re-takes 0-400-0 km/h record that seems to trade hands pretty regularly between the few automakers that player in this rarefied space. Our software engineers have been tweaking and adjusting the Light Speed Transmission & Engine Management system and have introduced a new torque control system […]
If you can believe it, the world’s fastest Toyota Hilux tops 400 km/h at the recent Bonneville Speed Week speed trial held on the famous salt pan in Utah. In South Africa we have that old adage, nothing’s faster than a Mk1 Golf, but this Hilux has just taken that claim away, giving endless bragging […]
A range-leading Toyota Fortuner GR-S, or GR-Sport, was added to the line-up earlier this year. We slid behind the wheel of the newcomer for an extended period over a wide range of conditions to bring you this review. Toyota is taking the sporting bull by the horns. While some brands are shying away from their […]
The electrified Mercedes-Benz Gelandewagen G580 has just been added to the local sales listings by MB SA. We attended the national ride-and-drive event to learn more about the off-roader from the captain’s chair. There are a few icons in the off-roading world. Far less than, say, from the performance segment. These include a Series One […]
2025 Dakar Stage 12 was the final stage of the 47th edition of this famous race. The last stage was a short, 61 km timed section in a loop around Shubaytah. Thanks to an excellent performance in stage 11, Saudi driver Yazeed Al Rajhi (Overdrive Racing) took the lead in the overall standings and was […]
Long time race leader Henk Lategan (Toyota Gazoo Racing) lost the lead during stage nine of the 2025 Dakar Rally (as you can read here). Yazeed Al Rajhi usurped the South African at the top of the standings. However, it was former winner Nasser Al-Attiyah who won stage nine, in the process he clawed back […]
Henk Lategan’s (Toyota Gazoo Racing) has been in the lead of the 2025 Dakar Rally almost since the start. The SA driver has been keeping a good pace to manage his lead. However, he lost a chunk of time, through no fault of his own, earlier this week (as you can read here). Keen to […]
Giniel de Villiers has completed nearly two dozen Dakar Rally events. The Capetonian started competing in 2003 with Nissan and moved on to the works Volkswagen Motorsport effort. In 2009, he claimed the German outfit’s first win. He was an integral part of the team and helped team-mates to two successive wins after his own. […]
The sixth stage of the 2025 Dakar saw no real change in the overall standings. Henk Lategan (Toyota Gazoo Racing) still leads from Yazeed Al -Rajhi (Overdrive Racing). However, there was a really bad news for SA fans as Giniel de Villiers (Toyota Gazoo Racing) who had to retire. The 2009 winner’s co-pilot Dirk von […]
2025 Dakar Stage 3 saw another leading player roll his race machine. You can read about and watch Sebastien Loeb’s accident at this link. The FIA deemed that the Frenchman’s Dacia Sandrider sustained too much damage to continue. As a result Loeb was forced to retire ahead of 2025 Dakar Stage 4. The nine-time WRC […]
2025 Dakar Stage 2 was a complete mixed bag with drama aplenty for some of the bigger teams (read more here). The massive overnight news coming in ahead of 2025 Dakar Stage 3 was the retirement of Carlos Sainz. The damaged sustained when his Ford Raptor rolled during the first part of the chrono stage […]
2025 Dakar Stage 2 started on Sunday and only concluded today. Race organisers set a monster second stage that was a 967-km loop to and from Bisha. Competitors had to run as far into the stage as possible. At 17:00 all competitors had to stop racing and proceed to one of six overnight camps. There […]
The 2025 Dakar Rally started with a short, 29-km prologue, which was led by SA driver Henk Lategan (Toyota Gazoo Racing), as you can read at this link. The short timed section was used to determine the starting order of 2025 Dakar stage 1. The times set on the prologue do not count towards the […]
The 2025 Dakar prologue was the start of the 47th edition of the famous rally raid. The prologue is, typically, a short loop that is held to determine the starting order of the race proper, which takes place tomorrow. Read our ‘Dakar 101‘ article here if you are still learning about the race. The 29 […]
