If you were wondering whether the government’s “modest” R100 million spending on luxury cars was necessary – it definitely wasn’t.
To those of you out there who live normal, well-adjusted lives and don’t care about petroleum-based geekery, you might think Koenigsegg is a bar you don’t remember from your varsity pub crawl in Salzburg. It’s not..
We all know that women have a reputation for putting on make up, eating breakfast, painting nails and even blow-drying their hair all while driving. Better yet, we all sneak in a quick call or a text message en route to our next destination. Here’s why you should do all those things before you put the key in the ignition.
Remember when people were willing to pay full price for stuff? Remembering when paying full price for an HD television, set of golf clubs, or pair of shades was completely normal? That was before the internet. Ah yes, a joke. But there’s truth in jest. Access to the internet has led to an explosion […]
Inspired by Bugatti’s 1912 Type 18 that was nicknamed Black Bess, the latest addition to the manufacturer’s ‘Legend Edition’ series wears the same moniker. But the ‘Black Bess’ Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse doesn’t share much in common with it’s great-great-great-great grandfather, other than being painted black.
No-one is exactly sure of the details surrounding this man’s misadventures in Camps Bay yesterday afternoon, but one thing is for sure – he drove around at high speed down wrong ways and ended up wrecking a large steel fence and between seven and nine cars.
What’s worse than crashing your Porsche GT3? When the car is not yours and some Jo’burg boet captures the moment in all its glory. Please enjoy the worst test drive ever.
Local car-purchase start up, 7days.co.za lifted off exactly 365 days ago. They have officially survived the 12 month timeline of death that so many businesses fall prey to. Not only have they survived, but they’re starting to eat a lot of their competition’s lunch. With a weakening Rand and rising petrol prices, consumers are looking […]
The moment when a R4.3 million supercar became a massive and expensive paperweight has been caught on film. Watch as a matte black Lamborghini Aventador brings London to a stop in this three-car smash. Car lovers might want to look away.
GM announced another massive international recall of 1.5 million cars due to malfunctioning of electric-power steering. This announcement comes as GM CEO Mary Barra prepares to testify at a US congressional hearing about a previous recall of the manufacturer’s cars which was sparked following a spate of ignition failures.
For many people, buying a car is a very big deal. There is lots of money involved, and banks are looking your bed, and people are throwing in maintenance plans that have voidance clauses if you put eyelashes on your bonnet and stuff like that. It’s just ALL very hectic. The last thing you think of is the option to haggle. Paradigm shift: You can haggle the price of your car, with any dealer.
The 2014 F1 season brings with it a whole pile of changes from last season. With the F1 cars being the forefront of car manufacturing, technology developed for them eventually finds its way down to the normal automobile consumer’s road car. But let’s hope these nose changes don’t catch on.
See this sweet little honey? That’s right, it’s available on the Mercedes-Benz Century City’s dealership page on 7days. You know all about 7days – it’s that excellent Cape start up nailing the way people buy cars. If you’re ready to buy this thing, you should know that you’ll be paying way, way less for your installment than your mate who drives a Toyota, and it’s thanks to this genius finance plan.
The Hennessey Venom GT became the world’s fastest production car when it achieved 270.49 mph (449kph). It took the top spot from the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. Check it out.
The new engines that are coming in to Formula 1 this year are ridiculous. So ridiculous, in fact, that Formula 1 has decided not to call it an ‘engine’ but rather, a ‘power unit’.
The brainchild of digital product developer and entrepreneur, Graham Bradford, 7days.co.za launched on 1 April 2013. A lot of people rightfully asked if they were being April fooled when the site first launched, and for good reason. 7 days consistently offers deals of between R50,000 and R100,000 off some of the best cars on South African showroom floors.
Bernie Ecclestone, the age-old, talismanic director of Formula One’s holding company is to step down from his role until the court proceedings against him have ended.
This isn’t like any of those self-parking mechanisms that are already installed in some new cars – oh no – this is different.
It’s been a hectic holiday season in terms of road deaths, with well over 850 people perishing on our roads in December alone.
It’s time to get stoked! For those of you who believe the thrills provided by the standard Mini Cooper S are not enough – the Mini John Cooper Works is back to hot things up. And we have to say, it’s looking pretty good.
Dan Bilzerian, 32, describes himself a an “actor/astronaut/asshole” to his 100,000 Instagram followers. He’s a professional poker player, and you could pretty much sit motionless on your couch, follow his Instagram updates everyday, and live a very full life vicariously through him.
Yup, it actually happened. At midnight last night, Gauteng’s multi-billion rand etoll network went live.
Those of you who are at work or have children around, please be wary as this post contains some very dirty and pornographic material. It’s Ferrari’s 458 Italia ‘Niki Lauda Edition”.
Last week we posted CCTV video footage of an extremely clinical hijacking that took place somewhere in Jo’burg. Now we’ve found even more footage of a similarly well-executed hijacking, also taking place in Jo’burg.
As part of our public duty to you, we thought we’d swoop in and let you know that there are cars on sale with as much as R100,000 off the price tag on 7days.co.za. And that’s not even exceptional or weird – they’re all over the site! Click the pics to go directly to those […]
South Africa’s roads are treacherous, we all know that. From the potholed one-lane nightmare-roads in the Eastern Cape, to the isolated N2 of the Karoo, staying alive on the road is never more important than it is within our very own borders.
Remember Gymkhana 5? Sure you do. It got almost 4 million views in 24 hours. You’ll be happy to know that Ken Block is back with Gymkhana 6, and it looks like it could be heading the same way as Gymkhana 5. Written, directed and driven by Ken Block, Gymkhana 6 is yet another masterful demonstration of driving genius.
This is some of the worst driving you will ever see. Not simply because of the actual driving, but because of the driving philosophy held by the driver in question – it boggles the mind.
Cape Town has it. Durban has it. It’s only fair that Johannesburg gets it. And now, my little sweethearts, you do. Buying your new, demo, or pre-owned car tends to have a heck of a lot of missioning involved. But there is happy news. The good people at 7Days.co.za do the haggling with the dealerships for you. After stunning success along the coast of SA, they’ve trekked inland to offer the same radical solution to the people of the greater Johannesburg Metro.
You haven’t started driving on the open road for real unless you’ve overtaken a few trucks, right? If you’re going to drive far, you’re going to get stuck behind trucks – that’s a fact. Problem is you never pass them, because it’s just too hard to see around them..