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ASH EXOTICS
October 27, 2016
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Dealers in Superfine, Exotic and Sports Cars 534/550 Church Street, Pietermaritzburg
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Contact Ash 083 786 3377 Tel: 033 342 4717 / 033 345 1971• Rafik: 083 786 3311 Email: ashgani@telkomsa.net • www.ashcarsales.co.za
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The latest wheelchair designs deliver the world’s fastest and cheapest chairs. — Page 5 PHOTO: SAFARISEAT The latest Bonham’s auction saw big money invested in old motorbikes, like this restored Triumph. — Page 6 PHOTO: BONHAM’S
Maritzburg’s Chris Visser and codriver Ward Huxtable hope to continue their strong momentum from the Sun City 450 at the Atlas Copco this weekend. — Page 8
SUV buyers are spoiled for choice, as Luke ViviersViljoen found out after having his doubts about all that mud on a Trailblazer’s wheels, (Page 3), while eight new Kia Sportage models have arrived in Pietermaritzburg after a sevencountry tour. — Page 2 PHOTO: ALWYN VILJOEN/QUICKPIC
SA has a new karting world champion after 12yearold Jayden Els from Boksburg won the Rotax Mini Max Grand Final in Sarno, Italy. Proudly waving the SA flag with Jayden are his parents Yolande and Jean. More racing on Page 8 PHOTO: MOTORPRESS
Pre-owned
You spotted a difference, but was it the car?
The range of JMC Vigus bakkies has to, ahem, ford some deep waters to compete with established bakkies in SA, but the new single cab offers Newtons and looks to spare, with a good price and a new fiveyear or 60 000 km service plan to boot. PHOTO: YOUTUBE
Handsome, and able to deliver SO, you want a strong work horse bakkie? Well, for a lot of lowdown torque you need look no further than Ford’s single cab bakkie equipped with the 2,2 au to drivetrain. At Wheels, we rate this bakkie for its 385 Nm, which is more than you need to pull a boat or carry a load, and its sweet 118 kW power delivery makes highway driving a pleasure. “Alas!”, we hear you say, “you can’t afford the R321 900 rec ommended retail price of the au to Ranger.” Well, then your obvious choice is either of the hardwork ing Indians — Tata’s Xenon Fleetline with its 300 Nm at R163k or Mahindra’s Bolero with its 238 Nm at R169 k. Aah, but now you ask: “Will I look sexy in it?” This demand takes us back to the Ford, but not a FordFord — the FordMazda as in the BT50 — and then not
the original BT50 either, but the clone built by China’s Jianling Motor Corporation, (JMC). Bear with me, it only sounds complicated. For what Ford doesn’t really encourage us to tell you is that JMC has been building its bak kies and Transit vans in China since 1997 and that the Vigus bakkies we can buy here have previous generation Ford’s Du ratorq engines under the hood of that (we like to think) prettier BT50inspired nose. As for price, Pietermaritz burg’s Metro Cars (which is one of SA’s biggest JMC dealers) is selling the new 2,4 singlecab Vi gus petrol for just under R200 k and the diesel for some R210 k, while sales manager Elvis Nai doo is always willing to talk tradeins. So how good are the Chinese built, previousgeneration Dura torq engines? Back in 2014, I took the Vigus doublecab 4x4 to Diesel Works in Pietermaritz
burg and that 2,4 Duratorq tur bodiesel engine tested 83 kW at 3 363 rpm and 286 Nm at 2 003 rpm — as close to the offi cial 88 kW and 290 Nm as a hot day in KZN would allow. The 4x4 also went up our Slope easily. With the 4x4 turned off on dirt roads, its stiff suspension felt planted and just begged for a bit of drifting through corners. With the same engine but less mass, the singlecab Vigus has almost too much power and one has to be quick off the hairtrig ger clutch not to spin the rear wheels. But gear changes re quires oldstyle double clutch ing to avoid grinding the first and second cogs. Put a load on it, and the hand some singlecab Vigus will per form as good as any other work horse, with the reassurance of a wellreputed workshop at Metro Car Sales to back the factory’s fiveyear or 60 000 km service plan, and that nice warm glow one gets from saving a tidy pile.
The Audi Pre-owned Sedan Sale. The only difference, is the difference in price. Get up to R60 000 assistance on a range of selected Audi Pre-owned Sedans so well-maintained, that the only difference you’ll spot is the difference in price. Visit Audi Centre Pietermaritzburg from 21–31 October 2016 and explore our exceptional offers on pre-owned Audi A3, A4, A6 and A8 Sedans. Visit Audi Centre Pietermaritzburg or www.audi.co.za/pre-ownedoffers for more.
Audi Centre Pietermaritzburg
9 Armitage Road, Pietermaritzburg, 3201. Tel: 033 397 8800. www.audipietermaritzburg.co.za
New Vehicle Sales | Nathi Mncube • Cameron Govender • Imdaad Hoosan Pre-owned Vehicle Sales | Mandla Mkhize • Mark van Rijsbergen Anwar Charfaray • Pre-owned Manager: Riaz Mahomed
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