Driven in South Africa, on South African roads, at South African prices. Every review scored out of 10 — and we tell you what it costs to own, not just what it's like to drive.
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One day, one X3 M50, and a review that changed its mind halfway through. It started underwhelming. By the last drive, with the right mode found, it made sense.
Video▶20:568.6/10A rainy afternoon with BMW M's standalone V8 plug-in hybrid: the most powerful car we've driven, and one that makes a five-metre SUV feel like an occasion.
Video▶23:096.6/10A week with the refreshed seven-seat X70 Plus: sharp looks and a premium-feeling cabin, but the 125 kW 1.5-litre turbo still made us work for it.
Video▶31:307.3/10Three weeks and a 1 200 km road trip in the cheapest H6. It is quick, genuinely spacious and hard to argue with on price — once you have learnt where everything hides.
Video▶31:258.0/10Big, heavy and somehow still feels like a BMW. Nearly five metres of luxury SUV, and it hides its size the moment you push it.
Video▶24:007.3/10We had the BMW X1 sDrive18d M Sport for one afternoon, straight out of a Jetour Dashing costing hundreds of thousands less. That is not long enough to know a car — but it was long enough to notice that the difference between them is not on the specification sheet.
Video▶26:356.8/10The refreshed Jetour Dashing Prime gives you an extraordinary amount of technology for R479,900. After living with it for a week, however, we discovered that having more features and making those features work naturally in everyday life are not necessarily the same thing.
Video▶28:436.0/10Toyota's locally built compact SUV is one of South Africa's best sellers, and the facelift makes it look the part. But after proper time in the 1.8 XS petrol, the engine, the CVT and a real-world 9.2–9.4 L/100 km all point at the same conclusion: the hybrid is the Corolla Cross to buy.
Video▶36:327.4/10It never asked for attention. It just did everything — city, motorway, work days, the days it stood still — and returned 6.9 L/100km doing it. Five months with the outgoing RAV4, as the new one arrives.
Every review is scored out of 10 across six areas, each counting equally toward the overall. We buy our own data, we're not paid by manufacturers, and we say when something isn't worth the money.
