Welcome to Downshift, your one-stop resource for car and bakkie news and reviews. From new car launches and motorsports to concepts, tuning, restomods, and everything in between, we’ve got you covered with an honest, no-bullshit approach to motoring in South Africa and beyond.

After years of covering automotive content abroad, we’ve decided to bring it back home, because local is lekker. We’re committed to honest, open reviews, meaning we’ll tell you the truth about cars, even if the automakers don’t like it. That’s our promise to you.

S. Horn, Editor-in-Chief

Who We Are

We’re a group of independent petrolheads with a background in automotive journalism and a love of cars. We’ve written for some of the largest automotive platforms locally and abroad and have driven everything from the cheapest, nastiest budget cars to the latest performance machines. But above all else, we love cars. It doesn’t matter if they’re slow or fast, a good car is a good car, no matter what badge it wears.