This mag has a little dig at cars in good old blighty.

http://www.speedandsound.co.za/

Aaron.

Time to register

hehe, it all depends where in the country you go to. If you're not looking to be impressed, then you wont be.

They seemed to miss that a lot of cars are sleepers - and so wouldnt spot them on the roads unless you try and race one.

Totally agree with you there Arc.

Leave them to it I say.

I have to say, whoever wrote that is a complete pr*ck..

I'm also guessing that Insurance is a bit more friendly over there

I think thats a fantastic dig.
Really puts Max Poo in their place :woot:
But what they say about unmodified engines is right...speak to a stupid crowd and get stupid answers. The only reason insurance is "too expensive" as they put it, is because odds are, none of the mods on these "modded" cars are declared, so the price (with modded engines) seems ludicrous!

I love the fact he laughs because somebody has a 2.0 car...I guess the old "no replacement for displacement" has reached S.Africa....

Show him the Coupe 20vt 2.0 turbo and he will shut up.

To be honest I don't know about S.Africa (would be nice to get one or two of the Africans on here to post?) but having travelled through France, Belgium and Poland, we have the newest and nicest cars out of the lot.

It's just blind ignorance. Then again, I expect if i went to S.Africa I would find it difficult to understand the cars there etc.

There's a few guys from S.A on here with Stilo Abarth's IIRC

I thought most of the cars on sale in South Africa were European anyway?!

Yeah, every country has at least one car magazine written by f***wits (we've got about 10), looks like we've found the South African one...

Considering most people in South Africa are too poor to even think about owning a car, I think they want to take a long hard look at themselves before criticising us. I'm also wondering which part of the country they went to to not see modified cars, the outer Hebrides perhaps?

Am i right in thinking they only got the stilo abarth a few months ago in SA?

Anybody have any problems with me writing to them and asking them to come and speak to us?

Yep I do - no need to cause arguments for the sake of it I reckon.

South Africa the country I don't think is as poor as you might think - I'm sure our South African members wouldn't say they live in a poor nation. I can't see any problem with what's been written in the Magazine maybe there are a lot of custom/modified cars in South Africa??!!

Not looking for an argument! Just for him to come and see that he was wrong in what he was saying....

I don't believe a writer for a magazine would drop into an argument very easily.

LOL. That tw@t mustve just driven round early on a weds morning. What an idiot. And the funny thing is he was probably secretly impressed byt the ****ty nova in the paint, otherwise he wouldnt have said it at all. What a pointless waste of time. But whatea floats the d1cks boat.

Apartheid may not be official in SA any more but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Helz said:

Apartheid may not be official in SA any more but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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A very good friend of mine is black SA (lives in Glasgow now) and she was about 3 or 4 when her family moved out of the townships and were only the 2nd black family on her street in Newcastle SA.

Things are not too bad there now and there are many opportunities for blacks but there are still an element of racism but not that bad as shes now 21 and grew up with white kids, so most people in our sort of age groups are cool with it, its more the older folk who remember the old ways. I also work with a white SA girl and shes also pretty cool.

Back to cars, theres is a very active member of the integrale forum who is white SA and his car is one of the most heavily modded I've ever seen (in pics) or read about, from its special turbo from the US to its real Dymag 18" Alfa touring car wheels from a German touring car, which means he has the rather cool single middle bolt holding them on.

He had & ran Fiat UNO turbo's for years as they seem to be popular over there as do Alfa's and VW's and of course the Jap crowd.

Aaron.

being now 21 and growing up there i think i can comment.

helz - bad post about s.a. not being rich, its pritty much is and most people can live fairly well, i lived better there than i do now. Dont get me wrong i am british born and bred, just parents moved out there but now im back. There is still racism, but to the point you dont notice it, you can say the same about living in the uk.

popular cars there are the golfs, people love them there, especially the gtis and the much larger ones inc v6 etc but nothing like i seen here (been back for 7 yrs)scoobys, evos, coup's etc