ARCHIVES: Having just returned from a short flying mission to the Swartland in an Audi RS 6, I am in the fortunate position to report back to you, having visited Planet Wealthy.
It’s been an interesting experience – the last time I drove an RS 6, more than a decade ago, it had 10 cylinders and a kind of swelling, wave-like absurdity of power not unlike the overwrought wind-up in one of Rossini’s overtures.
I recently went camping out there, in the Cederberg, with one of my children. Where the simple mind-bending pace and comfort of the RS 6 was fun, it was also useful to compare with the kind of cars that South Africans are actually buying these days. Corollas and the like are no longer affordable to many, but the new Toyota Urban Cruiser is right in the sweet spot of brand, affordability and product trends. This truth will no doubt, and with good reason, irritate the pants off the folks at Suzuki South Africa, because the Urban Cruiser is a Suzuki Brezza with a Toyota badge on the front nose and some other minor differences in specification and price.
What a difference! Heavily laden with all our camping junk and with the cruise set at 120km/h, the Urban Cruiser hummed along at about 3,000rpm, making it a perfectly acceptable companion for the long road. We were even able to plug in the camping fridge to the socket in the boot, which isn’t something you’d expect in a little urban runaround, and we got the Apple CarPlay going as the kid and I tuned into some Spotify classics and monitored our progress on Google Maps.
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