AUTONEWS MAKER ISSUE NO. 006 DRIVEtorque @DRIVEtorque @DRIVEtorque Tawanda Sungai www.drivetorque.com C.E.O. - Road Angels The all new Haval Jolion arrives ▶ TAMY MOYO PARTNERS WITH ZIMOCO ▶ 2021 HYUNDAI SANTA FE ▶ TRITON SINGLE CAB Editor’s Dashboard WINTER chills. Thank God for modern heating systems in our Jolion, with a gorgeous exterior and delightful interior is vehicles. Fathers Day week!! pleasantly user friendly priced. The fast, huge and galloping GWM steed is a marvel, taking the Asian market by storm. To all you DRIVEtorque male readers, I salute you. You carry that crucial fathering mantle. Why not make it an effortless The venerable Prado and the reborn Defender pit it out. A peek lifestyle? I think there is so little appropriate celebration and into Ford’s Computer-aided design (CAD) and engineering recognition not only of the fathers, but of the fatherless too. (CAE) is decidedly surreal. DRIVEtorque fathers, what if you deliberately intentionally Our adventurous innovative Autonews Maker is Road Angels reached out? How about you spare a motoring experience, a CEO, Tawanda Sungai. We have a double treat with the drive treat, spend a little time with that fatherless child that unveiling of their new luxury carrier for roadside safe secure you know with a look of compassion, a touch, a laugh, a word protected assistance transportation. Enjoy. of encouragement for simply communicate …I got you!? The covid nuisance has reared its ugly head AGAIN!! Mask up. For June the soon to arrive stylish crossover SUV, the Haval Stay vigilant. Drive safe. Sanitise. Social distance. Drive safe . Sanitize . Mask up P.27 Mitsubishi Triton built for hard labour! CONTENTS 3 AutoNews Maker - Tawanda Sungai 16 Robust Land Rover Defender is BEFORWARD unbeatable 5 How will the P-Series be on Zim Roads? 25 How Ford uses computers to accelerate 17 The all new Haval Jolion arrives vehicle development 7 Small Q, Big Coup - Audi Q2 19 Mitsubishi Triton built for hard labour 26 Mitsubishi Xpander 9 New Toyota Starlet making stars in zim 21 Review : 2020 VW Polo 1.0 TSI 29 GWM Steed 5 is a steed indeed 11 Suzuki Vitara is a no-fuss SUV 22 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe officially 32 2021 Land Rover Defender VS 2021 12 Tamy Moyo partners with Zimoco revealed Toyota Prado 14 Road Angels Luxury Car Carrier 23 How to buy your car from www.drivetorque.com DRIVEtorque JUNE 2021 | PAGE 2 Autonews Maker Dictionary auto newsmaker| auto newsmaker /ˈɔːtəʊ njuːzmeɪkə/ a newsworthy person in the motoring industry. Integrity, wisdom, communicator, self-awareness, gratitude, leaner, influencer, empathy, star, celebrity, respect, superstar, big-name, famous name, household name, leading edge, trend setter, disrupter, innovator, big-shot, positive thinker, luminary, leading-light, leader, mentor, prominent, accomplished, goal getter, results-driven, achiever, deliver, talented, team player, intelligence, confidence, accountability, humility, resilience, vision Tawanda Sungai - Road Angels’ Founding Managing Director AN RTA , Road Traffic Accident is industry. Today, because of with our corporate colour: the He remembers the particular day, one of the most inconveniencing Sungai’s youthful exuberance colour of energy.” 16 August 1999, when Zimbabwe’s unpleasant intrusion incident in and innovative skills, Road Angles premier beverage manufacturer, life. Circumstances like this we all is now Zimbabwe’s most reliable Two decades ago, 44-year-old Delta, offered him a lifechanging need rescue. recovery company, with branches Sungai did imagine himself today opportunity on its sought-after across the country’s major towns. sitting in some luxurious “graduate trainee programme”, By his own account, it might It is imperative that the air-conditioned office of a big where young graduates worked seem like Tawanda Sungai’s entry company’s 64 employees, spread financial firm, certainly not in and got paid while on placement. into the roadside recovery across the country, have bought some small building surrounded A turning point in Sungai’s life business was by chance. into the vision of the founding by a car scrap-yard. was getting a job with Nissan Managing Director. Clover Leaf Motors, where he rose A genial personality and Born in Bulawayo and raised in in a short period of time to distinctive traits of empathy “Look, we are very young and Gweru, Sungai graduated with a become Marketing Manager. suggest a supernatural energetic,” Sungai tells degree in economics from the connectivity between the DRIVEtorque. “We allow people University of Zimbabwe in 1999. Sungai’s departure from Nissan Harare-based entrepreneur and to be creatively Sungai quips he could well have in 2005 coincided with a very his enterprise. inter-dependent, as long as been a headmaster (no offence difficult period in Zimbabwe’s they deliver desired results. We hey ) by now. In the seven months history, with the country’s Road Angels, established more want people to enjoy being part he spent without a job after economy taking a deep spiral than a decade ago, needed to do of us, because our work can be graduation, he had turned to plunge. He had to spend some something distinctively different so stressful at times. We are a temporary teaching to make time peddling in the streets to for it to make an impact in the super-positive team. It goes ends meet. support his young family. www.drivetorque.com DRIVEtorque JUNE 2021 | PAGE 3 Ever the bookworm, Sungai spent breakdown numbers.” this time studying for a Masters in Leadership and Change, a No one ever expects to be in an UZ-based programme offered in accident, but there is always a collaboration with the University chance that it could happen. of Leeds. A lot of drivers therefore find It was also around the same time themselves wanting in the that the concept of Road Angles eventuality of this mishap. Road was born. Angels’ target is to provide cover for all, at low cost. Foresight and sacrifice saw this hugely ambitious young man sell “Roadside assistance is very personal assets to buy his first expensive,” Sungai says. “Our tow truck to give his fledgling plan is to make it affordable for business a kick-start. everyone. Any guy under a car must be able to afford. So we Today, Road Angels stands at 24 are drawing up a plan for a tow trucks with branches in membership scheme where you Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Mutare, pay a dollar per month. It is Masvingo, Beit Bridge and based on volume. We are Chiredzi. looking at a volume of at least 1 500 subscribers per month.” Starting a new business is never an easy task. Services offered include jump-start, opening vehicles in Road Angels faced all the trials cases of key loss, amongst other and tribulations of a new venture. roadside challenges. Road Angels persisted to a point of hiring some of the finest In life, we all need someone to personnel the country has to look up to, and Sungai has offer, and it grew. successful people in executive management and Innovation was behind this rise. entrepreneurship who holds him For a business that entails getting accountable to a higher standard. hands dirty, literally so, some kind of aggression is required to get He singles out men like his former ahead of competition. boss Stanford Sibanda – the Sungai has come a very long way, right mind, every challenging Clover Leaf CEO – and funeral which makes his advice to situation can be overturned to Even what appears like small services guru Phil Mataranyika, as up-starters more relevant. great gain.” things is important, like acquiring some of his role models. uniform contact numbers from “In business there are no Away from work, Sungai enjoys a telephone service providers, was It also helps to be a tenacious short-cuts to longevity,” he bit of fun on the road, which fits achieved. optimist to start from scratch, declares. “You need well with his choice of car. and transform into a market perseverance and belief in “This is what gave us saving leader in a small but very yourself when all others have “I’m a fan of the G-wagon, the grace,” says Sungai. “You need competitive industry. Sungai is given up on you. You need a G-63,” says Sungai. “I’m an easy numbers for this kind of one such visionary. He declares a positive mind. The mind is the outdoor guy, so for downtimes I business. We discovered that a bright future, saying: “the country most incredibly powerful tool like to venture into the bush.” lot of people do not know is definitely on the right path.” we have. Use it well. With the www.drivetorque.com DRIVEtorque JUNE 2021 | PAGE 4 2480mm x 1520mm x 540mm. Its load capacity renders it able to haul any equipment or trailers. When you hear of this kind of space on a vehicle, you cannot imagine it having such a vintage and rugged exterior styling like the GWM P-Series Commercial Single Cab. This is a vehicle to cherish, a travel partner that you can trust, an all-weather friend of the road. The comfort is next to none. Its interior is dark, with a leather-wrapped steering wheel, 3.5-inch colour instrument cluster on top of smart technology, a modern car for the modern-day driver. What will the new Hilux-rivalling GWM P-Series Think about this, you don’t have bakkie be like on the Zim roads? to worry about answering your calls whilst driving! It has cruise control and Bluetooth hands-free SOMETIMES, it is refreshing to the “sweet pot”, the leaf spring P-Series. The bakkie is a remake calling system for your throw the rulebook out of the rigid rear suspension needed a bit of an earlier version.