Drive Out #61 | October 2012

Product Description

• WHEELS The new Mazda BT-50, the expensive California Kombi and the prettier Ssangyong Actyon
• 4×4 ACADEMY Get your 4×4 papers the Drive Out way
• ROAD TO HELL Five years ago Ali van Wyk was a passenger, but this time he has returned to drive it himself.
• ZIMBABWE The Matopos, Great Zimbabwe’s Ruins and the Nyanga National Park are barely a day trip from each other – and accessible to everyone
• GEAR If you have mastered the basic principles of batteries, you are on your way
• WORKSHOP We’re giving away a bakkie again! See how the Hilux gets a winch to get out of trouble
• DIY The motorhome at the back of an Amarok single cab has great sleeping quarters, is fantastic to tour in and has a name and a half.
• MY WHEELS If you have four children and want to tour in a Troopy, there is only one solution – install another door
• MOTORBIKES THROUGH AFRICA On the way from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town you get bridges for which you need nerves of steel
• READER STORY If you tackle Lesotho with snow chains, you can prepare yourself for a number of recoveries
• 4X4 TRAIL The Damon 4×4 Trail near Worcester might not be too hardcore, but the views are worth writing home about
• PHOTO MECHANIC Where do you place your horizon – high, low or in the middle?
• BOSKOS Fill the cookie jars and keep the troups happy
• GRAVEL STORIES If there are no women, you can lick the knives and forks clean for three days …