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25 May 2013 06:12 (South Africa)
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Renault Modus slams into Volvo 940 estate; who's going to win?
Branko Brkic
Branko Brkic
Brkic is the founder and editor of The Daily Maverick.
He has edited magazines on business and politics, technology, and wildlife. He has also published fiction and non-fiction books, most of them in Serbian. Though he has never pretended to be a reporter, his wide knowledge of politics (especially in America), combined with his experiences in a disintegrating Yugoslavia, gives him an unusual outlook on events in South Africa.
Despite the vowel-poor surname, he tells anyone who asks that he hails from Hyde Park, Johannesburg, having spent most of his adult life in South Africa.
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23 Dec 2009 12:00 (South Africa)
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It sounds pretty straightforward: Renault Modus is a mini MPV (multi-purpose vehicle), basically a raised Clio, nice, small and looking a little insubstantial. Volvo 940 Estate, a safety champion of the times not so long gone is a huge, powerful, heavy and well-built example of over-engineering. So who would win in a head-to-head collision between the two? That was exactly the question posed by Tom Ford of The Fifth Gear, one of the crop of TV programmes to surface after the success of TopGear. The video of the experiment is below and provides much shock and disbelief. Enjoy. Well, sort of.
Brkic is the founder and editor of The Daily Maverick.
He has edited magazines on business and politics, technology, and wildlife. He has also published fiction and non-fiction books, most of them in Serbian. Though he has never pretended to be a reporter, his wide knowledge of politics (especially in America), combined with his experiences in a disintegrating Yugoslavia, gives him an unusual outlook on events in South Africa.
Despite the vowel-poor surname, he tells anyone who asks that he hails from Hyde Park, Johannesburg, having spent most of his adult life in South Africa.
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