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This is very much aimed at our loyal German readership, so if you’re not of a Deutsche persuasion you may proceed with your day. That’s right, carry on. Okay then.

Like drifting a German saloon in the wet with the traction control off, the game of poker is very much a skill. You’re not up against the faceless, mighty casino; you’re up against the slightly twitchy people sitting next to you. Even that weird woman with the moustache and the tortoise shell sunglasses.

Which is why we’d like to recommend the German-version of Party Poker. They’re the poker uber-boys, offering the very latest in online poker technology. Invite your friends, play against them and insult them online in new and witty ways. It’s a wonderful way to spend an evening with your laptop, and of course make some extra cash to pay for the finer things in life. Like a better laptop.

Of course we expect you to send over 5% of your winnings. That was a joke.

Cheers.

First, the news. Pictures of Porsche’s new 911 leak onto the internet and absolutely no one is surprised that it looks exactly like the old 911. We drive a stunning coupe: The Peugeot RCZ, which looks like nothing else on the road. Ciro loves it, Gavin not so much, mostly because he can’t really fit in the thing.

22 July 2011

We review the beautiful new Mercedes Benz E250CGI Cabriolet and the bang for your buck Chevrolet Captiva SUV.

It was a good (and very early) morning for myself and Gavin Williams, who were up at 5am to start a weekly segment on SABC3′s popular Expresso morning show. Live-to-air and anchored by the annoyingly good looking Ewan Strydom, Gavin and I reviewed Volkswagen’s new range of R cars and spoke a bit about LiveTraffic, a new service from Renault and TomTom.

Thanks to Gerard from Alberton who called in to ask a question, I hope we managed to answer well enough!

In the next few weeks we’ll be overhauling this site, so please do come back and have a look.

We’ll be back next week and regularly there after, time and date to be confirmed, but it’s looking like Thursday. If you were awake to catch what must surely be the world’s earliest car programming, thanks for watching, and we hope to hear from you.

Oh, we also met Ben Collins, the former Stig from Top Gear, and got a photo with him. He was at pains to point out he’s really not the Stig anymore. Poor chap.

Check out Expresso here: www.expressoshow.com

Cheers,
Ciro De Siena

If you happen to spot blue lights in your mirror in Jozi, we don’t recommend trying to run. Quite simply, you’d have to be in something very, very quick to get away.

Audi has recently donated 100 S3s to the Johannesburg Flying Squad, in a bid to fight crime and no doubt generate some great PR. The sight of 100 Audis in police livery is quite a spectacle after all, and besides, here I sit writing about it from Cape Town.

The Audi S3 deals with the standard 0-100km/h sprint in 5.5 seconds and will keep charging all the way to a limited 250km/h. We drove one last year and found the roadholding to be exceptional, thanks to that Quattro system, especially in the wet.

Ogilvy, Audi’s ad agency released the above advert with the somewhat ironic title of “Fokofpolisiekar”. Can I just say, WTF?

Thanks, Between10and5!

This just happened! Some poor rich bloke was no doubt having a whale of time along one of Cape Town’s best driving roads, De Waal Drive. We have no details as yet but quite clearly things went wrong and the Lambo ended up on it’s roof! The car looks really flat, we’re really hoping it wasn’t a cabriolet, and we sincerely hope everyone is okay.

If you have any more details please get them through to us, contact details below right.

More pictures here!

Ciro De Siena