Today, quattro is a mainstay of Audi’s vorsprung durch technik product line-up, but 60 years ago Ingolstadt produced a four-wheel drive vehicle with more utilitarian use in mind. Mike Monk goes off the beaten track...
Close friend of the Mostert family and an associate of Hennie when he was competing, Patrick Vermaak provides the background to Hennie’s career and the success of one car. And Mike Monk drives the mountain machine...
Mike Monk has a sense of déjà vu behind the wheel of a rare-in-SA Mini Cooper...
We start off the New Year having a whale of a time getting to grips with Porsche’s blown 911. Mike Monk delivers a ‘whale tale’ of a one-owner 930...
If ever there was a vehicle that epitomised the adjective ‘utilitarian’, the Citroën Méhari is it. ‘Built for a purpose’ is perhaps too simplistic a phrase to describe what the Méhari represents but its bare-bones persona is, in reality, full of character. Mike Monk goes...
Light commercial vehicles have played vital roles in the development of countries around the world, not least on the African continent where South Africa stands proud amongst its fellow nations. Mike Monk drives a superb example of an early Chev bakkie, the likes of which helped...
In the seat of greatness. Mike Monk recalls driving Madiba’s personal BMW that was purchased by FMM, the proceeds of which going to the Mandela Day School Libraries Project...
Something of a sleeper in the evolution of the supercar, Honda got the concept right first time with the NSX, yet its attributes were largely overlooked. Mike Monk describes an impressive machine that was perhaps too good for its own good...
To most people, an entry-level Porsche can only be a dream machine, but Mike Monk looks back at just such a machine… When Porsche launched the 911 back in 1963, it was not oblivious to the fact that the increase in pricing of its all-new...
Raymond Loewy’s glass fibre-bodied, four-seater high-performance grand tourer was advertised as the inspiration for all ’63 Studebakers, but the concept was doomed from the start. Mike Monk drives one to see what might have been...
