Reader’s Rides Spotlight – How to do it right.

So you’ve paged to the back of the magazine and seen that Reader’s Rides has changed a little.  The difference is that we now have a two page spotlight on one of the cars that have been sent through to us.  This is a bigger and better spot for your car in the magazine, which you know, is quite cool. Read more

Readers ride of the month: Corsa Ute

King Cobra and he hails from Grassy Park in the Mother City. He’s the founding member of Venom Designs and pilots this modded ‘07 Opel Corsa Utility. It’s got an Eibach 60mm kit, racing shocks and 18” Gang R Monoxide rims wrapped in 215-35-R18 Clear tyres. Read more

Readers ride of the month: Hyundai Tiburon

The Vaal Triangle’s Martin Smuts wrote: “Hey guys, this here is my Tiburon, I’ve put a lot of time and money into it… don’t we all right? It has custom paint work with a candy orange roof and spoiler, the car is black with blue pearl (galaxy blue pearl). It has an awesome set of 17″ wide & narrow mags with serious rubber… Yokohama. Read more

Readers ride of the month: Opel

This mail came in from Quintin, his mail arrived with the following: “Hi there. first of all, thanks for a great mag, keep up the good work. My name is Quintin and this is my car, it is a 1992 Opel Kadett CD16V that runs on a pair of 17″ Racing Hart mags. The motor is still standard, up top is an original Cosworth head with 276-degree Schrick cams and a K&N filter. It’s the 200TS injectors, a 57mm free flow exhaust and slightly bigger discs in front. Read more

Readers ride of the month: Mazda MPS

Colin’s MPS is very clean, sickeningly so when I compare it to my ST. He cleans the car himself which basically means he’s not as lazy as I am. The MPS was an upgrade to his Focus ST170, and while people gave him shit for jumping brands, I don’t think he really cares. He can’t hear them anyway over the sound of an aftermarket exhaust system and cold air induction kit. Read more

Readers ride of the month: Mk1 Escort

“MK1 Racing Team leader Vigen Naidoo has a passion for grease and lathe machines. He started racing and getting his fingers into his cars when he bought his first MK1 Escort on obtaining his driver’s licence. This car was the baby that didn’t exist yet. Most of his modifications and alterations were completed in his own garage. Drag racing flows through his veins and he thrives on “doing it himself, the power is in his hands”. Read more

Readers ride of the month: VW Golf 1

Our head honcho, the man we lovingly refer to as Batty Boy (no, not because he swing that way, more thanks to being besotted by the winged, caped crusader) has some pretty damn peculiar mates. One such chap is Gareth, a very scary chap who looks like he’ll eat you alive and pick his teeth with your bone, all while you’re still alive to watch. He emigrated to Australia a while back so that he could pick on the locals and throw sheep at them. He hooked himself up some cool wheels and sent us a few pics.   Read more

Readers ride of the month: VW Polo

Michael’s Silver Polo was sent through to us a few weeks back. These have become popular cars to modify thanks to becoming affordable with all the new VW models hitting the market. Michael writes: “Good day, attached are some photos of my silver Polo 1.9 TDi Sportline. It’s been modified by the team at Sportech and myself. Inside she has a Pioneer sound system done by myself. Read more

Readers ride of the month: BMW E30

Reidwaan Jardien sent us these pics and details of his E30 BMW. This is what he said: “Hi guys, here are a few pictures of my ride.It’s a 1989 BMW 325i with the M-Technic kit. It’s a 2.9 stroker with a 304-degree split cam and uses GoTech management, limited slip diff, an iS short-ratio gearbox, a 57mm free flow and TNT branches. The kit is an original M-technic iS kit including the panels on the doors and bumpers, which are all in plastic, the same goes for the boot spoiler.   Read more

Readers ride of the month: Honda Civic

Murray says, “this is my car, it’s a 1998 Civic VTEC powered by a 2l Frankenstien motor and held together with ARP head studs. The head has been flowed and I upgraded the injectors to 320cc. Racing adjustable cam gears were fitted as was a Skunk 2 Pro Series intake manifold and Simota (whales penis) induction kit. On the exhaust side it has a TNT branch system with 57mm freeflow split system. The car has also been chipped with a Dastek Uni-Q. Read more

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