Radio Overberg précis

A small Chinese SUV raced these Isuzu trucks

Op Overberg Wiele môreoggend kwart oor agt gesels ons trokdrywerskrywer oor

- 'n kar wat die kersie op die koek sit, 

- ons hoor van die wendinge in die motorfietse wêreld en 

- vir ons weeklike dosis 'weird' is daar die waterwiel wat met piepklein spoortjies draai.

Kom ek raai, die kar wat die kersie op die koek sit is die Sjinese Chery?

Nie meer goedkoop nie, maar steeds verassend goed, is inderdaard die Chery Tiggo, wat met wille woud lorries

Testing the car sharing market

The Bluesummer will help shape the rules of car sharing

WHEELS recently reported how Chevrolet is testing car-sharing habits at a university in China as the world’s car makers adapt to the next generation of buyers in the northern hemisphere who would rather share a ride than own a car.

Now PSA Peugeot Citroën has announced it will make and distribute Bolloré Bluesummer electric

Its a blast, now move on

Surviving the Ride, tells how South Africa leads the fray

MANY of the mine-resistant and ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles around the world have South African roots.

Two South African authors have now for the first time presented this little-known and fascinating story of South Africa’s panzer vehicles in a well-researched coffee-table book, titled Surviving the Ride.

Steve Camp and Helmoed Heitman co-authored the 250-page book, which has over 400 colour

Tiggo takes it to the top

After 400 km of rough riding in the Tiggo, only the
pregnant passenger was squeaking. 

HAVING reported what a nice surprise the Tiggo proved to be on dirt in this very newspaper, Chery went won better and challenged me to 350 km over 12 passes in Mpumalanga in eight hours in Mpumalanga. 

I only managed nine passes, but afore ye judge, bear in mind these passes were laid out by race driver Charl Wilken, who is used to klapping (slapping along at) 200km/h over these deeply rutted and rock-strewn forestry roads in the local rally championships. And I had a pregnant passenger. 

In total there were eight Chery utes racing along, most of them with fellow motoring hacks behind the wheel and

The best car now, is a van

Merc's biggest new 'car' is actually the V-Class. 

PRETORIA — Nicolette Lambrechts, vice-president for Mercedes-Benz Vans, can be forgiven for describing the new V-Class the best possible first impression a business can make.

Before handing over the luxurious vans to media representatives for a first test drive, Lambrects said this was no van like the Viano, but the newest, largest member of the passenger car family from Mercedes-Benz, incorporating all the luxurious features of the C-Class.

Mascor sells John Deeres best

JOHN Deere South Africa has announced Mascor as its top dealer, while the Kokstad branch is also branch of the year in the Mascor group.

Mascor CEO Bill Comins said this was the third year running that the Greytown-based company was awarded the Dealer of the Year title.

He told Wheels the group’s area stretches from Kokstad on the KZN border with the Eastern Cape; to Malelane in Mpumalanga.

Comins credited the quality staff, coupled with Mascor’s ability to finance the latest technology with

Rides I remember best

Look no further than farm equipment for truly alien wheels.

I made this list because my late father, a long-distance driving enthusiast who owned more cars than most people had hot breakfasts, never made his.

I haven't owned nearly as many vehicles as he did, but in my 50+ summers as delivery boy, cop, publisher, sheep farmer, trucker and finally transport journalist, I did get to steer some extraordinary wheels. 

These wheels range from a 3-speed Challenger bicycle on which I made those runs as delivery boy in between cycling 13 km to primary school, (its internal gearbox is still part-magic, part-science to me); to a Russian Hagglunds tank-track. 

Among them were some truly alien wheels used on farms, like above forklift. 
But the weird wheels are not the rides I remember best. 

When the road stretches out to meet the clouds on the horizon, the rides that stand out from the blur have all enabled a life lesson or a milestone experience -- from chases to races; new liaisons to break-ups; also break-downs, meltdowns and even the odd arrest. 

A teardrop that won't make you cry

It floats, but you may need to float a company to afford one.

I WAS recently asked to defend my statement that the bargain of the century in the small trailer market is sold by Pinetown-based Jetstream.

Since Wheels broke the story almost two years

Computer game makes roads safer

A learner driver learns how to change gears in 'the yard'.

AS corporate social investment programmes go, teaching people how to drive by playing a glorified computer game doesn’t sound like an important contribution to help meet South Africa's many social economic needs.

But Coega Development Corporation CEO Pepi Silinga’s mission to train safer drivers has done more to promote road safety, in especially the Eastern Cape and KZN, than all the government programmes to date.

Bear in mind that Arrive Alive states South Africa’s road mortality ratio of 28 per 100 000 citizens is the worst in the

Why mini home makes cents

Afew of the 70 pupils at Berkeley High who learned all
about making their own first home.

A POPULAR way to pass the time on social media sites these days is to ask what advice you’d give your younger self, knowing what you know now.

Looking back at the money I wasted on renting dingy rooms in my mendicant youth, my sage advice to self would be to buy the largest double axle trailer I can get a loan for, then get busy with the saws and planks to make a room I can sell later.

This is more or less what 70 high school pupils did for a school project at Berkeley High School in the United States last term.

Before they started sawing, the pupils attended a carpentry boot camp with Studio H and were then

Overberg précis

The Bolero Maxitruck, now stripped of all creature comforts.
Why, Mahindra, why!?

Mens kry bakkies en bakkies. 

Party is net goed genoeg om rice crispies uit te eet, ander kan lorries sleep. Vandag op Overberg Wiele hoor ons watter bakkie tans die heel minste bied, en watter ene die verrassende wending is.

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Watter bakkie bied die minste?

Sonder twyfel is dit die Mahindra Maxitruk -- dis werklik 'n ironiese naam daai, want daar is die absoute minimum in die sg. maksi bakkie.

Nou is dit vir my amper pynlik om iets teen die Bolero te sê, want die Maixtruk is eintik die uitsondering op die reel -- soos daai drug addict nefie in 'n andersins goeie familie met die waardige oom Mahindra Scorpio wat steeds Suid-Afrika se bargain bakkie is.

Fast utes are rooted in slow tractors

There is good reason behind Lamborghini’s hankering for muddy fields and it’s all VW Group’s fault.

The Rambo Lambo from 1982

The latest news in the world of super cars show you can take designer out of the tractor factory, but can you never quite wash off all the mud.

It is a little known fact, but the coats worn by Ferruccio Lamborghini and Ferdinand Porsche both sport muddy stains from when they both made tractors.

Porsche made three prototype tractors in 1934, but then went on to very fast cars like the 1939 Mercedes-Benz type 80 land speed car.

Lamborghini never stopped building tractors, but added super cars when he discovered Enzo Ferrari

Go low for high kms per liter

Get this close to the road and you too, can get 2551,8km/l

THE European leg of the Shell Eco-marathon ended in Rotterdam last Sunday.

The event attracted 200 teams and 3 000 students from across Europe to test the limits of current technoligies to deliver ultra energy efficiencies in real world driving conditions in the 30th anniversary Shell Eco-marathon.

Team Microjoule-La Joliverie won their second overall title in the race, but French and Danish teams stole the show on the final day with three track records that also beat two of the best results the competition has yet seen.

Microjoule-La Joliverie’s overall title was earned with the most fuel-efficient performance across all