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When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees.

Bumping buses

Bumping buses

I recently experienced a close encounter with a Metrobus โ€“ so close, in fact, that the rear panels of my trusty Suzuki Swift were almost completely demolished. Personal transport woes aside, however, as we gear up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup the spotlight continues to fall on public transport. While improvements to the network are to be applauded, can we afford to pay the price of fleets of buses and coaches manned largely by undisciplined drivers, asks NADINE VON [โ€ฆ]

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Mahindra Navistar rising

Mahindra Navistar rising

In our December review of prospects for the worldโ€™s major truck manufacturers, Global Focus commented on the developing joint venture between Navistar International Corporation and Caterpillar, now operational under the imaginative name of NC2 Global LLC, and the rolling out of Navistarโ€™s own joint ventures in India and China.

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Talking power

Talking power

โ€œWeโ€™ve all been there. Your vehicle wonโ€™t start, so you call passers-by to apply a combined force to give you a push-start. Two people turn up, and within a brief amount of time their combined energy has worked. The car starts and the engineโ€™s torque provides a powerful getaway,โ€ writes JAKE VENTER.

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