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“Must Have USB!”
The most often-asked question of pre-owned car salespeople by far is: “Where is the USB port?” For used car shoppers, finding their next dream drive is undoubtedly a daunting experience. Walking onto a dealer’s lot or viewing countless cars online, they’re bombarded with facts, figures, trims, mileages, colours, different prices…
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For the price of a new BMW 320d, you could rather be driving one of these…
The all-new BMW 3-series (G20-generation) is by all accounts a step in the right direction for the Munich car maker’s compact executive sedan. It returns to its roots of a rewarding driving tool as well as bringing more technology to their bread-and-butter model. Apart from the M340i xDrive and the…
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Winter time is the best time to buy a convertible!
Convertibles come with many names: roadster; cabriolet; carbio; drop top; drophead coupe; open two-seater; open top; rag top; soft top; spider; and, spyder. Whichever name it has stickered on the bootlid, they all do the same thing: make every drive a memorable one. Our Northern Hemisphere friends suffer from short…
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Instead of that, buy this… #1
For the price of a three-year-old BMW 320d, the most popular vehicle and most sought-after derivative currently in South Africa, we have found these alternative charmers to turn your car-buying list upside down… 2016 BMW 320d Auto With 94,000km on the odometer, a price of R279,900 and a list of…
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Choose One Of These Before Someone Else Does #3
There is a thing such as a hyper hatch. We live in a world where a humble hatchback can spit out 310kW of power (in mass production trim), in a package that will give many supercars a headache while lapping a race track. Of course, that power and performance comes…
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Used Car Review: 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX Hatchback
Analogue watches are just cooler than digital watches, right? Reading a book and turning its pages, or swiping the screen of your e-reader/tablet? Sometimes technology gets in the way of pure enjoyment. Digital info displays in the latest German cars are all very well and good, but seeing an analogue…
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Choose One Of These Before Someone Else Does #2
By scouring the used car buying platforms, and driving past your local car dealerships, you’d seen some very choicy vehicles available. But, what if you have no time to search for your next interesting car? That’s UsedCarReview’s bread and butter function: finding and highlighting only the choiciest vehicles available for…
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Choose One Of These Before Someone Else Does #1
By scouring the used car buying platforms, and driving past your local car dealerships, you’d seen some very choicy vehicles available. But, what if you have no time to search for your next interesting car? That’s UsedCarReview’s bread and butter function: finding and highlighting only the choiciest vehicles available for…
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Used Car Review: 2009 Mercedes-Benz C350 Avantgarde Automatic
Did you know that the average age of passenger cars on our roads is 10 years? That’s surprising and incredibly telling: cars built a decade or so ago were fantastic machines on the whole and the appeal to hold onto a good example makes a lot of sense. Think back…