Author: Miles Downard

My first ever experience with the Kia Picanto came in 2006 on a family trip to George, where we hired the little Asian to run around town – in the event the local golf course was a bit too shabby for our liking.

Now that the excitement and hoopla that was the Johannesburg International Motorshow is over it’s time to sit back and take stock of one of the main reasons Drive RSA went. The launch of the MG6.

I will soon be trading in the sleepy coastal town of Durban for “big city” life in Johannesburg. The prospect of having to navigate around Joburg often gives me cold shivers.

I tested a Honda Jazz back when I first started out as a motor journalist in 2009. In those days the B segment wasn’t all that hotly contested.

I’ve just got back from the brilliance that is a press day. It’s that magical time where press get a first look in on something before Joe public ruins it by turning up in huge crowds.

In the history of the Japanese motor industry there have been some bonkers creations. I can only deduce that they all have a small room in their R&D departments that is populated by a bunch of complete lunatics.

BMW and Mercedes-Benz: these German car-manufacturing monoliths have a reputation for creating premium, quality products – and there’s always been a bit of rivalry between them.