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THE Notre-Dame in Paris recently Also in the news recently is the Road What we need in SA is for third burned down. Accident Fund (RAF). party insurance to be made com- This grand temple dates back to the That same government which con- pulsory by law. eleventh century! siders two pit toilets at a rural primary It’s like that in the US and Britain, Compare that to us here at the bot- school a major achievement, has an- and even in Zimbabwe. tom of Africa where, 900 years later nounced it intends to replace the RAF If you want to own a car and drive the construction of a pit toilet is reason with the Road Accident Benefi t Scheme it on a public road you should be enough for government offi cials to (RABS). properly insured, whether it’s a new throw a party. Transport department spokesper- car or a piece of junk. The French really are an ingenuitive son Ishmael Mnisi said, ‘This no-fault In fact, if it was up to me I would go to foot the bill for repairs on his new bunch. scheme will create a new era of socio- as far as making insurance for old cars Merc when Dick rear-ends him after the Which brings me to the cars they economic balance and will also remove more expensive because they don’t brakes on his 1988 Tazz failed. make. the unintended negative consequences have essential safety features such as Uninsured drivers, when caught, Just look at their Peugeots. and fi nancial burden on the families of ABS and are often not even roadwor- should be fl ogged in public. These cars are world class as far as the wrongdoer. The new RABS will fur- thy. But like fi refi ghters could not prevent built quality and technology are con- thermore continue to indemnify those The result will be a signifi cantly lower the Notre-Dame from burning down, cerned and worth considering when responsible for road crashes from civil fuel price as well as cheaper car insur- there’s no end to this stupidity. shopping for new wheels. liability.’ ance premiums. Taxpayers will continue to pay for The French have been in the car As a responsible car owner and tax- If every road user has third party those with no insurance and for the making business for over a century and payer I cannot agree with any scheme, insurance, Tom’s insurer will not have carnage they leave in their wake. Audi embracing electric? udi embracing electric This would enable the car to ac- the Porsche Taycan’s J1 plat- vehicles could result in the celerate from 0-100km/h in a little form’. Ademise of the iconic R8. over two seconds. The report doesn’t go into But this news is not entirely bad, Those are some impressive specifi cs, but says the model will as reports suggest the R8 would numbers, and so is the quoted have an aluminum monocoque effectively be replaced by a sporty range of 483km, 161km more chassis and all-wheel drive. new halo vehicle dubbed the e- than e-tron crossover. That being said, this isn’t the tron GTR. The sports car is also rumoured fi rst time we hear about Audi Expected to debut in 2022, to have a wireless charging planning to build a high-perfor- the model will reportedly have a capability, but there’s no word on mance electric vehicle. 95kWh solid-state battery which how long the recharging process Back in January, Audi Chairman powers three electric motors that would take. Bram Schot reportedly confi rmed produce a combined output of Like the e-tron GT, the e-tron plans to put the PB18 e-tron con- 500kW. GTR would be ‘based heavily on cept into limited production. 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Speaking to UK motoring publica- tion, Autocar, Mazda3 programme manager Kota Beppu said he was keen to introduce a ‘hyper hatch’ version of the fourth-generation hatchback. ‘I’m a car guy, so I myself want to drive a high-performance Mazda3, so I’ll do my best,’ he said, adding most developed countries had already shown an interest in such a product. Autocar said the hot Mazda3 was ex- pected to receive the green light before 2021, with the fi rm’s turbo-charged 2.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine producing 169kW in the fl agship CX-5 in Japan and 186kW in the Mazda6. ‘The Mazda3 is a light vehicle, so if there is too much power and we keep it as a front-wheel drive, there is the torque steer phenomenon happening,’ Beppu said, suggesting an all-wheel- drive arrangement could be on the cards. He went on to say a hotter Mazda3 would need ‘to be responsible and friendly … more friendly than a Golf GTI,’ while still being fast. 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