Land Cruisers and Humvees are all very well in their way and a Unimog will go up the side of a house with the right tyres - but they all yield pride of place to this heavily modified Russian Ural 4x4.
At the launch, Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele emphasised one particular sea change the BRT system will bring about: Unlocking the city's nightlife. All current public transport systems stop working when the sun goes down, However, the BRT system, running until late, will allow people dependent on taxis, Metrorail, or Metrobus to go out at night.
The 2009 Frankfurt auto show is promising 82 world premieres when it opens this week - a "fireworks show of innovations" with German brands accounting for half of them.
Motorsport veteran Hannes Grobler has decided to call it quits at the end of the 2009 Off-Road season after almost 33 years of competition – all of them in Datsuns and, later, under the brand's new name, Nissan.
Bugatti’s worst kept secret, a forthcoming four-door supercar, was shown to current Veyron owners at the company’s Molsheim headquarters over the weekend.
New York - Parents in the United States are setting a poor example behind the wheel for their teenaged children by talking and texting on cell phones and speeding.
Berlin/Frankfurt - US carmaker General Motors agreed to sell a 55% stake in Opel to a group led by Canada's Magna, after months of fraught negotiations that had weighed on the European unit and its 50 000 workers.
