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Cars
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Customer’s Complaint Against Joburg Audi Dealer Goes Viral
23 Oct 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 12 Comments
The picture you are looking at was posted to Facebook on Sunday by Ilka Dunne. While booked in to the Northcliff Audi branch, her car was involved in an accident that has led to it being written off. How exactly this happened is a story we’d still love to hear!
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Lamborghini Releases First Images Of 2013 Gallardo Spyder [PICS]
19 Oct 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
Lamborghini has revealed the first pictures of their 2013 Gallardo Spyder. Just like its hardtop counterpart, the convertible features more aggressive lines as well as some new design elements.
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FAIL: Insurance Refusing Payout After Ferrari Joyride On Bargain Coupon Ends In Crash
04 Oct 2012 by Simon Gerber / 9 Comments
What started as a bargain may have turned into a case of near bankruptcy for a 23-year-old Swiss baker, who recently had a head-on collision with a BMW in a limited edition Ferrari 360 Spider F1 Challenge Stradale. He is now looking at having to fork out approximately R3,4 million to repair the damaged supercar.
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Check Out This Mental New MINI – The MINI ‘Paceman’
18 Sep 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Can you see what they’ve done here? MINI have given us the world’s first Sports Activity Coupé in the premium small and compact vehicle segment. So it’s bigger than the MINI Cooper, but smaller than the Countryman, with a coupé vibe to boot! Arrives in SA next year!
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Hands On With The Jack Daniel’s V8 Camaro [GALLERY]
17 Sep 2012 by silverstreak / No Comments
Jack Daniel’s gave us a call the other day. “How would you guys feel about taking a V8 Chevvy Camaro for a spin.” I’d feel great about it. That’s how I’d feel. And then I went back to work. Twenty minutes laters a guy named Joe pulled up outside The Compound. He said he had [...]
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Muscle Car Ploughs Into Crowd At Heritage Square Cape Town [Video]
20 Aug 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
“At Inner City American Muscle car show…Heritage Square Cape Town..A reving Chev Firenza…suddenly ploughed into people standing around the car…A minute or so before I was kneeling in front of the car taking pics….I counted 6 injured”
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Car Review: The New BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe
15 Aug 2012 by Ciro De Siena / 1 Comment
Ciro and Gavin test drove the new BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe. So if you’re in the market for a car in this category, or if you’re ever so slightly interested in what BMW have done with this diesel engine (performance in line with old M5s!) and why you consider the 4-door, check out this quick review.
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Getting Your Driver’s License Soon? Make Sure You Read This
01 Aug 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
I have a gentleman from Malawi on my staff team. He picked up where Mavis left off, and we’ve never looked back. Having expressed a keen interest in the gourmet arts, Alexander has now completed a cooking course and even had lessons with Evan Faull from Knead bakery. Needless to say we don’t buy bread [...]
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Prince of Monaco’s Stunning Car Collection Up For Auction [GALLERY]
26 Jul 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
Today Prince Albert II will auction off 38 vehicles collected by his father – the late Prince Rainer III. The cars range from immaculate examples of a 1953 Cadillac and a 1950′s Bentley S1 through to a number of bargain basement models such as a Fiat 500 and a Citroen estate.
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The ANC – Celebrating 100 Years Of Selfless Struggle
17 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
Spotted by a 2oceansviber in Johannesburg, parked in a no-parking zone. The Mercedes-Benz E500 convertible is available for purchase at around R1 million. [thanks berminator]
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PUMA Chats To Former F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher
10 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
PUMA recently sat down with seven times F1 World Champion, Michael Schumacher, at Silverstone during 2012 British GP. They spoke about his former and current career, as well as his feelings on motorsport today.
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Frenchman Stranded In Desert Turns His Car Into A Motorcycle [PICS]
06 Jul 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Lookout, we have a badass on out hands. Although the story is only emerging now, in 1993 Emile Leray’s Citroen down broke in a Moroccan desert miles from nearest village. Unfazed, he took the car apart and turned it into a motorbike.
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Ciao Sergio, And Thanks For All The Cars
06 Jul 2012 by Ciro De Siena / No Comments
Up until yesterday, car makers used to be a bunch of greasy, oil-stained, mechanically minded individuals. Naff things like pencils were a bit of a poke, which in turn created a market for design geniuses and those with suspiciously thin-rimmed spectacles. Design work was, and is, still left to people like Sergio Pininfarina.
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New Cape Town Cellphone Law In Effect
02 Jul 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 4 Comments
Talking and texting while driving is somewhat of a cultural phenomenon in South Africa. There are those that are law abiding, but there are also those that don’t seem to care, and throw caution to the wind. But now Capetonians will face a R5 000 fine, and have their phone confiscated for a day for transgressing the law, it was reported in the Cape Times this morning.
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Buckingham Palace Pit Stop: London’s Formula One Street Race Is Coming
28 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One’s billionaire chief executive, has offered to pay more than £35 million to stage a grand prix in London. Plans are due to be announced later today for a five-kilometre route around some of London’s most famous landmarks, including Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square.
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Rad Images Of The Top Gear Festival In Durban [GALLERY]
22 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
We just received these incredible images of the Top Gear Festival in Durban from our friends at OverdriveTV. If you were there you might want to take a look at these. But if you weren’t, check out some of the things The Stig and compnay got up to!
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Google Maps Introduces Real-Time Traffic Overlay To South Africa
20 Jun 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 1 Comment
As Google becomes more and more a part of our daily life, they add features that are actually very useful. Like real-time traffic overlay on Google Maps for instance. Seven new countries, including South Africa, received access to the new service as of today. Click through to find out how it works.
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Top Gear Festival Brawler Linked To 2009 Assault On Elderly People
19 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 25 Comments
A 2oceansVibe source has come forward claiming that one of the men depicted in the video footage showing the end of an altercation that took place at the Top Gear Festival in Durban this last weekend, has been linked to previous accusations of assault. Click ‘continue reading’ for more..
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WATCH: Massive Altercation At Top Gear Festival In Durban [VIDEO]
18 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 51 Comments
There seems to be something that annoyed a couple of the patrons at the Top Gear Festival in Durban this last weekend. This footage shows a certain amount of aggression displayed by some of the patrons, with one person throwing a metal chair (and connecting) a couple of other people. We are not sure what [...]
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Top Gear Break World Record In Durban [VIDEO]
18 Jun 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
On Saturday, Top Gear broke a world record by performing the first double loop in a car. As nothing exploded, no sarcastic comments were heard as the vehicle made its loops and it didn’t crash, we can be safe to assume it wasn’t Clarkson, Hammond or May driving.
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Audi’s E-Tron Becomes First Ever Hybrid To Win LeMans [VIDEO]
18 Jun 2012 by Albi P / 1 Comment
This past weekend, Audi made automotive history when their E-Tron became the first hybrid car to win the the world’s biggest auto-racing endurance event, the 24-hour LeMans.
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2012 Put Foot Rally Kicks Off In June, MINI Named Official Vehicle Sponsor Of Team Shake & Bake
30 May 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 1 Comment
Team Shake & Bake The Put Foot Rally is a 17-day journey through Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique. One of the rally’s crews, Shake & Bake, will also be responsible for maintaining their own vehicles and route. The four members of this journey are Meegan Rourke, Louise Gans, Andrew McGill and Gordon McTavish. They [...]
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Mercedes Benz Kompressor C230 Coupe ‘Evolution’ – R150,000
10 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2oceansvibe staff car – only one owner. 2005 ‘Evolution’ model with only 79,000 km. One of a kind in SA. AUTOMATIC, Electric seats, sunroof, parking sensors, GPS etc. etc. etc. Reason for sale – Buying a MINI Full details and tons of pics HERE. Email enigma@2oceansvibe.com Please note this is a special favour for a [...]
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The Texting While Driving Test [VIDEO]
04 May 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
If you are one of those douchebags (or know such a douchebag) who text while driving, then you need to check out this video. Potential drivers in Belgium were told they had to pass a “mobile phone test” in order to get their driver’s licenses. See how they did, inside.
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