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Nobody lives in Rosslyn …
… but many make their livelihoods there. Faranaaz Parker, Qudsiya Karrim and Percy Mabandu report.
BMW
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Bank pledges bail-out billions
The European Investment Bank’s statutes state that its outstanding loans portfolio cannot exceed 250% of its capital.
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The fat cat’s whiskers
The new 7-Series — like any car in this class — is a barge and there’s only so much you can do to make a barge pretty.
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Your motorised personal DJ
Lloyd Gedye takes a tour of BMW’s Munich research and development laboratory.
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A battery-powered classic
To a casual observer, it looks no different from a standard modern Mini, the British classic reimagined, to great plaudits, by BMW.
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Another Mini adventure, but this time with the sound off
To a casual observer, it looks no different from a modern Mini. But look closer and there’s something different about the Mini E.
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Nip/tuck time for 3-Series
The changes are small, but it does reinforce this model as a serious player, writes Sukasha Singh.
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‘EU car-makers blocking emissions targets’
The top 14 car-makers in the European market still had to cut emissions by 17% to reach the EU’s 2012 target of 130 grams a kilometre.
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Bailing out Big Motor
Having sabotaged eco-innovations, the motor industry is now demanding billions, writes George Monbiot.
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Artist gets settlement from BMW SA over advert
Artist Gerhard Marx has won his battle against BMW SA over the company’s use, in an advertising campaign, of road-map fragments pioneered in his work.
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Splash out on the BMW Z4 Coupé
The Z4 Coupé is a fun car to drive, whether you settle for the three-litre version or splash out on the 3,2 M model.
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Driving foreign investment
Auto manufacturers in South Africa are expected to double vehicle production by 2020 in response to revised government incentives, say experts.
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Russia’s new rich spurn Zil for British luxury
The 100 000th Land Rover Freelander 2 recently rolled off the company’s production line at Halewood on Merseyside, north west England.
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Honey, they shrunk the car
BMW is pretty clear about the customers it is hoping to tempt with its extraordinarily sleek and boldly nose-thumbing new 4×4, the X6.
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BMW sneezes but General Motors catches cold
The gloom surrounding the motor industry deepened on Friday when General Motors announced a ,5-billion loss and BMW issued a profits warning.
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Dynamite in a small package
I have never driven a Mini and it wasn’t until the recent Mini Clubman launch that I realised on what I had been missing out, writes Sukasha Singh.
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A run for your money
Despite his misgivings about run-flat technology, Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya is not giving up on BMW just yet.
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Strike brings Volkswagen SA to its knees
Volkswagen South Africa is ”on the brink of disaster” because of the motor-industry components strike, MD David Powels said on Wednesday. The six-day-old work stoppage has so far cost the company a production loss of 500 cars per day. Volkswagen’s Uitenhage plant has been brought to a standstill.
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SA auto-parts workers to strike, says union
More than 50 000 South African vehicle-component workers are set to go on indefinite strike on Wednesday after a breakdown in wage talks, the main metalworkers’ union said on Monday. Mziwakhe Hlangani, spokesperson for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, said in a statement the strike would affect automotive-component suppliers.
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C-ing is believing
During the question-and-answer session at the launch of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class in Mpumalanga, a journo asked how he was supposed to fit all the info about the new model into a 750-word story. We all laughed and agreed that that was a challenge: trying to summarise how much the C-Class had changed and what it had to offer.
