Tag Archives: motoring

Almost all vehicles these days boast airbags – for passenger safety. | Motoring Guru | Some vehicles have them in front, rear, and side. Unfortunately, many vehicle owners never check to know if the airbags are either in place or in good working. Many assume the only way to find …

5 things you need to know about The Jeep Gladiator went on sale in the US this month, and if you are looking out for it; here are the 5 things you need to know about it. Looks matter Starting with the front of the Gladiator it would be easy …

What do you get when you combine a military truck and a Jeep? Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan did just that; and what did he get? A motor creature he believes to be the world’s largest SUV. |The Independent | Called Dhabiyan, the monstrous 10-wheel vehicle is based on …

Removing the clear-coat paint on your car body means you must wax regularly to avoid algae | The Independent | Scratches on the body of your vehicle irritate. Yet they are unavoidable with our narrow roads, bushes, bodaboda, rough car washers, and naughty kids who think your black car is …

STOLEN VEHICLE PLATES: How to avoid it and what to do if you’re hit Kampala, Uganda | MOTORING GURU |  Motor vehicle registration (number) plates have become a major target of criminals. The goal of the criminals, in most cases, is to extort money from the car owner.  It is …

What’s it and how does it work? Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | It reads like it might be a gimmick but XMode is anything but…Here we explain what X-Mode is and how it works. Subaru’s symmetrical all-wheel drive already makes its vehicles the most capable in their segments across rough or …

British manufacturer touts more visual details and on-sale dates for venerable SUV Kampala, Uganda |  AGENCIES | Land Rover has confirmed a long-awaited Defender replacement will be unveiled in full this year before reaching global markets in 2020. As the British manufacturer resumes testing of camouflaged prototypes this month, stakeholders …

Race between Rav4, Subaru Forester, Kluger, Harrier Kampala, Uganda | MOTORING GURU | When The Independent’s motoring guru did a column in December 2017 predicting the popular car of 2018, the focus was on the evergreen compact SUV; the Toyota RAV4. Buried deep in that review was mention of an emerging …

Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | The organizers of the 2019 European Car of the Year (ECOTY) have announced the seven finalists of this year’s competition that will fight for the ECOTY crown. The seven finalists in alphabetic order are; Alpine A110, Citroen C5 Aircross, Ford Focus, Jaguar I-Pace, Kia Ceed, Mercedes-Benz …

Check out its new standard safety technology Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | HONDA has dramatically increased the level of standard safety technology for the 2019 Honda CR-V VTi-S all-wheel drive model (AWD), which will be available in dealerships from January 1, 2019. Previously the suite of tech dubbed HondaSensing incorporating forward …