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However, this badge engineering proved unpopular with many South African buyers and came to an end in 1998 when the Mondeo replaced the Telstar in this market. [5] In 1988, Ford divested from South Africa and sold its 42 per cent stake in Samcor, although it would continue to sell Ford-branded automobile components for assembly and sale in the ...
The high cost of alloy wheels makes them attractive to thieves; to counter this, automakers and dealers often use locking lug nuts or bolts which require a special key to remove. Most alloy wheels are manufactured using casting, but some are forged. Forged wheels are usually lighter, stronger, but much more expensive than cast wheels.
Birkin Cars, Ltd. is a South African-based car manufacturer. The company's specialty and only currently-produced vehicle is the S3 Roadster , a kit-car copy of the Lotus Super 7 . The founder and owner of the company is John Watson, a descendant of pioneering race car driver Tim Birkin .
Their Volk Racing wheels are popular with owners of sport compact and import cars on the race and show circuits. Rays Engineering also manufactures wheels for car manufacturers' in-house tuning teams such as Nismo , Ralliart , STi , Mazdaspeed and Toyota Racing Development and also supply wheels to Williams Formula One team [ 6 ] as well as the ...
Street Machine contains many sections, from letters sent in by readers, to articles on feature cars and technical issues. The feature cars are mostly Australian and American muscle cars from the 1960s to the 2000s, while occasionally a hot rod or rat rod will feature. Cars such as a Datsun 1600 or an Austin A30 also make rare appearances.
In the United States, the wheel style was manufactured in Lansing, Michigan, by the Motor Wheel Corporation, [2] and found fame in the 1960s and 1970s on Muscle cars like the Pontiac GTO, Ford Torino, Shelby Mustang, Plymouth Barracuda and AMC Javelin. In an American context, the wheel style was known as the "Magnum 500".
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Car, established in 1962 as Small Car, renamed Car in 1965; Car Mechanics, published since 1958; Classic & Sports Car, first issued in 1982; Classic Car Weekly, weekly magazine published since 1990; Evo, first issued 1998; Fast Car, first issued 1987, covering modified cars; Octane, first issued in 2003; Parker's Car Price Guide, founded in 1972