In moderation, most things are just fine. Take, for instance, the trend of rebodying the Volkswagen Beetle. Once the Beetle became ubiquitous and dirt-cheap, everybody with a chopper gun started to use the Bug as the basis for bringing their notebook-margin doodles to life. Yet there were many refined, restrained and quality-focused coachbuilt Beetles, mostly […]

Is it possible to think of South Africa anytime before the Mandela era and dissociate it from the images of apartheid that remain with us? Perhaps if all you saw of the country were its automotive advertisements. Then again, I suppose the same postulation rings true of any country (America included) at any period of […]